Example sentences of "[pron] have have [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple . |
| 2 | I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’ |
| 3 | You see , I 've had rather a lot on my mind recently … ’ |
| 4 | I 've had rather a hard day — well , I 'm sure you can imagine . ’ |
| 5 | I 've always thought very highly of Michael Jaffé , until recently Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , and I 've had quite a lot of pleasant conversations with him . |
| 6 | I 've had quite a few patients . |
| 7 | I 've had quite a few . |
| 8 | I 've I 've had quite a few nicknames . |
| 9 | A week later I transferred an Emperor Peckoltia ( which I have had over a year ) and added a new Emperor Peckoltia which was purchased from Wholesale Tropicals of Bethnal Green . |
| 10 | Every time I wonder about going to join George and to use my TEFL qualification , I wonder how I would REALLY do teaching English to people , though I guess I have had quite a lot of ad hoc and ungrammatical ( ! ) experience with the various language students who have stayed here . |
| 11 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 12 | Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ? |
| 13 | All this did , of course , cost money , but if you 've had even a comparatively small amount of that and then lost it , you do tend to realize how transient the whole thing is and not worry so much about getting it back again . |
| 14 | As social work you 've had quite a contact erm with people on the flats , erm living in the situation they actually most people in the flats . |
| 15 | It 's quite interesting that where you think you 've you 've rung say , Freda or Amber in the evening and you 've had quite a lengthy conversation in , mentally you think that |
| 16 | ‘ I understand you 've had only a boiled egg this morning , ’ she said meaningfully , then returning her attention to the maid , ordered , ‘ Make that tea for two , Margaret . |
| 17 | You 've had about a hundred people come to you , are you looking for damages ? |
| 18 | At the meeting re-convened to pass the accounts , the members were given a thorough , and far-reaching report , which included the recommendation to spend ‘ less excessively ’ on the clubhouse , but more on the course , and to raise the wages of some staff who had had only a meagre 15s. 0d. a week for years . |
| 19 | ‘ If you go to the NCT , you will be taught by women who have had either a wonderful of a nasty labour and who bring their experiences to the class , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Using the P-postlabelling method with butanol extraction as an enhancement procedure we have compared adduct levels in a group of patients who have had either a previous truncal vagotomy and drainage where bile reflux might be expected or a previous highly selective vagotomy where bile reflux is less common . |
| 21 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 22 | I have sent for you this morning , Jones , because I find on looking up your record of attendances at police court that you have had neither a charge nor a summons during the last three years . |
| 23 | I 'm just going to walk down the hill with this lady — her husband 's there — she 's had rather a shock — ’ |
| 24 | but she 's had quite a lot of training in other things actually and with the man marketing department that they 've got there they might not need that the thing coming up I 've just had what 's interesting about that and what I do n't like about it is not to because I have a lot of respect for her . |
| 25 | Well here 's the Director General of Fair Trading , and this is someone who 's had quite a bit of experience on this , Sir Gordon Borey and he says that motorists should ensure that any cover they buy is in the form of an individual insurance policy in their name . |
| 26 | Mostly , crises arise when a guest pulls out at the last minute and we 're urgently looking for a replacement — sometimes we 've had just a matter of hours . |
| 27 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
| 28 | We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half . |
| 29 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 30 | Well , we 've had quite a lot of money from Oxford from different people so you do n't know . |