Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] have [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 2 | The number of sleepless nights I 've had over that smooth bastard moving in and Jozef kicking me out of bed . ’ |
| 3 | It was a spectacular sight — the best I 've had of wild flowers in Britain . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've had about all I can take for one day . ’ |
| 5 | May I thank you both for the most delightful afternoon I 've had for many years ? ’ |
| 6 | I 've got a pewter-coloured Strat Plus which I 've had for two years now . |
| 7 | All the replies got eleven or so replies that I 've had for that questionnaire . |
| 8 | And the pain I 've had for three years was far worse . |
| 9 | ‘ Ten years , ’ he said , ‘ ten years I 've had on this milk run , see , and I seen more accidents than I 've had Sunday dinners . |
| 10 | Conversations I 've had with countless men in Britain have convinced me of it . |
| 11 | ‘ The trouble I 've had with British Telecom … but that 's not the reason I phoned . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ This is the first afternoon aff I 've had in five weeks , ’ Andy accepted the cigarette and lit it . |
| 13 | It 's the first vacation I 've had in seven years . |
| 14 | At this , and most of the many other meetings that he and I have had with African leaders , progress towards democracy and good governance has been discussed . |
| 15 | ‘ It is generally thought from talks I have had with other chairman that there will be between 600 and 800 players released at the end of this season because clubs are seeking to trim their wage bills . |
| 16 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 17 | Conservative Members would be well advised to heed those words because all the contact that I have had with local government — I am not talking about Labour councillors , but about impartial experts — has shown that those experts believe that the council tax will eventually run into such trouble that it will become unworkable . |
| 18 | I have a grey trilby which I have had for many years . |
| 19 | ‘ It was the best news I have had in six and a half years . ’ |
| 20 | I saw , and I have had in actual fact , recourse to actually use that service over there , and it 's rather interesting if one can t to say that er in the particular village which I er represent , they actually came up , when I asked a certain question , they gave me a , a , far more than what I actually asked for at the time , but found out who the first village constable was , and I think myself that er , that service over there , it deserves every praise it gets heaped on it . |
| 21 | All of them seemed to have in common a cold dislike of children and a determination to do as little as possible for their inadequate wages . |
| 22 | She had to carry along a spare one which belongs to her mum yesterday , in case the one she has had since 1984 became damaged . |
| 23 | I was a little concerned though when the makers of ‘ MiniMag ’ asked what experience she 'd had of articulated vehicles and she replied , ‘ I 've spent my life driving Daddy 's horse-boxes . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , in your plan you , you seem to have like two objectives One was |
| 25 | Fire Officer , paper F , and I think you 've had a something additional put on your table because you 've had with that paper A. |
| 26 | It will probably be among the most wonderful experiences you 've had in any theatre . |
| 27 | But she had never had confirmation of his death , as she had had of those of his parents and hers . |
| 28 | A 45 year old woman with a strong family history of ischaemic heart disease was referred with left sided chest pain , which she had had for six years . |
| 29 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 30 | The comfortable feeling of friendship she had had since that night in August , when she had so firmly suppressed her teenage-flavoured infatuation , was what had allowed love to grow . |