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 | 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 " . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | B : ‘ For about nine months we have had a succession of builders , surveyors and decorators trooping in and out . |
| 7 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Anyway , since those days I 've had a marked preference for small frail soft-spoken dentists like Mr Grover . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Over the years I have had a few interesting experiences with computer hardware . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that . |
| 18 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 19 | The bishop 's hobbies include reading and walking and since his student days he has had a great interest in church and choral music . |
| 20 | Well , at certain times we have had a large number of Bengali patients . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In a series of 141 patients who had had a prophylactic colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis , five patients had a history of acute pancreatitis . |
| 26 | When comparing the group of patients who had had a single attack with the control group , there was no significant difference in amylase secretion ( Table III ) . |
| 27 | Wilson-Barnett ( 1988 ) quotes from work with cancer patients , patients who have had a myocardial infarct , and patients who have rheumatoid arthritis ; all examples where long-term contact with health care staff is more likely than in instances of acute and more transient illness . |
| 28 | Another type of specialist nurse deals solely with patients who have had a mastectomy . |
| 29 | Some patients who have had a myocardial infarct , and particularly those who have had thrombolytic therapy , are going to be left with residual stenosis . |
| 30 | In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood . |