Example sentences of "[verb] have a [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 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based Sequent is also expected to have a few tricks up its sleeve for this week 's roll-out . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to have a few words with you , John . |
| 9 | Jessica probably knew ten times more about these things than she did , she 'd had a million times more experience , at any rate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She did n't correct enough or she lost control or maybe she 'd had a few bevvies . |
| 12 | Well , they 'd had a few weeks of mystery , of secrets kept and of wrong conclusions avoided . |
| 13 | Jesus , it 's pathetic , but I 'd had a few bourbons … ’ |
| 14 | Other men talked about it quite openly in the club , when they 'd had a few drinks . |
| 15 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 16 | She wanted it too , and maybe when she and Charlie were married and in bed and they 'd had a few drinks and she was wearing a black nightie , then maybe it would n't be so bad . |
| 17 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |
| 18 | Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head . |
| 19 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 20 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 21 | It 's actually quite a good book and I 'd had a few qualms about turning it over to Lenny the Lathe , who specializes in converting books more than an inch thick into fireproof combination lock safes . |
| 22 | Our own particular case is our case went to the High Court some three hundred thousand pounds , when perhaps if we 'd had a dedicated pensions act setting out what could and could not be done , that would never have happened . |
| 23 | At the end of the meal , Dominic came to have a few words with me . |
| 24 | ‘ We look to have a few problems , ’ he admitted yesterday . |
| 25 | This morning it went to number one this is tremendous news and from it we 're going to have A Hundred Children . |
| 26 | So with the big firms , when you 're doing a full house and you you are n't just going to have a few bits like you would for a light removal , off you go and you estimate . |
| 27 | Yes , I think we defended quite well , obviously Ken erm is going to have a few saves each game anyway which I thought he done very well today . |
| 28 | I 'm going to have a few words with the professor . ’ |
| 29 | The footings and parts of the walls of around 300 chambers have survived on the ground floor ; the presence of several staircases implies the existence of upper storeys and , taking into account the destroyed upper floors as well , the original temple may have had a thousand chambers altogether . |
| 30 | A game 's a game , but you could have piled me up back there , and then you 'd have had a few questions to answer ! ’ |