Example sentences of "[pron] have had a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 2 | I 've had a series of producers , all with very different personalities . |
| 3 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 4 | Joshua , who had had a series of secretaries , one of whom had married John Biffen , said that he did . |
| 5 | Starting with cost reduction any cost reduction programme always involves a lot of redundancy and , and this is no exception and from the slide you 'll see that we 've er we 've had a staff reduction er , from the the plan for this year of one thousand and thirty three er and that 's the , that will save us in a full year something like fifteen point nine , sixteen million pounds . |
| 6 | ‘ We have had a series of phone calls from people saying they had not received our election information , ’ said Ms Jordan . |
| 7 | And that made me wonder if you were in it , too , and he 'd had a rendezvous at the cottage . |
| 8 | He had had a series of injuries , he did not have reasonable employment , and a plainly lucrative offer from Japan had appeal . |
| 9 | He 's had a series of clashes with Sony , which his counsel says was unhappy when he wished to play down his sex symbol image , and did n't put its back behind promoting recent albums . |