Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 2 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
| 3 | For the past three months I 've had an irritating itch in my lower pubic region . |
| 4 | The ready availability of good-quality building stone in most parts of Scotland , the lack of timber in many northern areas , and the need to protect against strong winds and abundant rain , are a few of the many practical considerations which have had an important effect on the nature of Scottish buildings . |
| 5 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 6 | Well one would have thought so , but I said to er Mrs you see , about the minibus , no not the minibus , the M S bus being available and , I said the problem was or maybe that we 'd have to have drivers who have had a P S V licence , or what they call it ? |
| 7 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 8 | B : ‘ For about nine months we have had a succession of builders , surveyors and decorators trooping in and out . |
| 9 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 10 | But in the last few months he 's had a lot to cope with following the death of his best friend in a road accident . |
| 11 | It is clear from this brief appraisal that prevention through genetic counselling has limited value for the first born , but is an important consideration for parents who have had a mentally affected child or at least conceived one . |
| 12 | Perhaps we will even be able to count on the support of Conservatives who have had a sudden conversion to freedom to undertake the activities of one 's choice in the countryside overriding all issues including wanton cruelty . |
| 13 | Anyway , since those days I 've had a marked preference for small frail soft-spoken dentists like Mr Grover . |
| 14 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 15 | Over the years I have had a few interesting experiences with computer hardware . |
| 16 | Over the years I have had an interest in medical matters and have been involved from a legal viewpoint on a number of occasions . |
| 17 | For years I have had an interest in phenomenology , the attempt to get behind , understand and interpret the way others see the world . |
| 18 | Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible . |
| 19 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 20 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |
| 21 | ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that . |
| 22 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 23 | The bishop 's hobbies include reading and walking and since his student days he has had a great interest in church and choral music . |
| 24 | Joe , who was an outstanding goalkeeper in the Irish League and had a spell of management with Ards , has been looking after Ireland 's senior badminton players since the 1978 European championships in Preston and over the years he has had an excellent working relationship with the players , motivating them and looking after their fitness . |
| 25 | Well , at certain times we have had a large number of Bengali patients . |
| 26 | They anticipated a number of significant developments which subsequently took place , like the setting up of a local authority for the Western Isles which has had a stimulating effect on the whole life of the area . |
| 27 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 28 | In many ways I 've had a fuller and more satisfying life since then , and I know that my children still need me in lots of ways . |
| 29 | One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them . |
| 30 | In a series of 141 patients who had had a prophylactic colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis , five patients had a history of acute pancreatitis . |