Example sentences of "[verb] have [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | San Francisco has had a privatised police force since 1851 , when the city cops were so desperate for help that they sold off districts to private enterprise . |
| 2 | For over 120 years , the House of Commons has had a Public Accounts Committee which has established a reputation as an impartial watchdog over government spending . |
| 3 | ‘ Les has had a few problems but he could do very well alongside Deanesy . ’ |
| 4 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
| 5 | James , 19 , working in the hall under a community service order , has had a few months ' work for the council since leaving school . |
| 6 | Arrange to visit after the programme has had a few weeks to run . |
| 7 | Argentina has recently been paying the banks $40m a month ( equivalent to three days of the monthly amount due ) , but has had no formal discussions with its banks about a rescheduling . |
| 8 | He recovered promptly and has had no further problems 30 months after transplantation . |
| 9 | The patient has had no further problems from perineal disease during the subsequent 17 months to date . |
| 10 | She has had no further problems and is recovering from her operation well . |
| 11 | The excellent , practical hunter who has had no further lessons in hunting-wizardry than his introductory ones as a teenager is said to know little about hunting . |
| 12 | CANCER drug campaigner Janet Murray has had the first tablets which may give her a chance of a normal life . |
| 13 | Annabelle , you may not realize it , but you are gaining the advantage of marrying a man who has had the sharp corners rubbed off him . |
| 14 | President Havel has had the dreary uniforms of the Communist state redesigned by Theodore Pištěk , the costume designer for the film Amadeus , much of which was shot in Prague . |
| 15 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 16 | It suggests that your vehicle was once petrol engined or has had the wrong springs fitted at some point . |
| 17 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent is also expected to have a few tricks up its sleeve for this week 's roll-out . |
| 18 | Men can have one dark suit and wear it all day and no one will even notice , but women are expected to have the right clothes for lunch and afternoon tea and working in and then have some stunning outfit for evening . |
| 19 | They look rather like elongated jellyfish and appear to have no structural virtues . |
| 20 | All rabbits carry fleas and it is most significant that does , as the result of being in recent contact with a nest , always appear to have the greatest infestations . |
| 21 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to have a few words with you , John . |
| 23 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 24 | We have returns so far from sixty five per cent of the schools and we expect to have the remaining schools before the end of the month , I would n't expect it to change from where we are at the moment but if there was a significant variation then I will be in a position to report back to the Policy Committee at the end of the month but I 'm , I 'm not expecting that need be the case . |
| 25 | Of the remainder , 27 ( including Bristol West , now the most marginal seat in England , which the Tories held by just 45 votes ) would have been won had the third-party candidates withdrawn . |
| 26 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 27 | I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career . |
| 28 | She did n't correct enough or she lost control or maybe she 'd had a few bevvies . |
| 29 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 30 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |