Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 2 | All of them seemed to have in common a cold dislike of children and a determination to do as little as possible for their inadequate wages . |
| 3 | I was a little concerned though when the makers of ‘ MiniMag ’ asked what experience she 'd had of articulated vehicles and she replied , ‘ I 've spent my life driving Daddy 's horse-boxes . ’ |
| 4 | But she had never had confirmation of his death , as she had had of those of his parents and hers . |
| 5 | A 45 year old woman with a strong family history of ischaemic heart disease was referred with left sided chest pain , which she had had for six years . |
| 6 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 7 | The comfortable feeling of friendship she had had since that night in August , when she had so firmly suppressed her teenage-flavoured infatuation , was what had allowed love to grow . |
| 8 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 9 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 10 | At the meeting of the Planning Group for the National Conference , we decided to have to thematic workshops in the afternoon — one on the Philippines and one on Africa . |
| 11 | There was very little else we did have in those days . |
| 12 | We had some very , very moving speeches yesterday , as we had had at previous meetings , which made it quite clear that a few pounds were vital and crucial to people 's lives , so we thought it was a a gesture that was worth making , and I have to say that probably our group also includes people on , as members , as Councillors , who are themselves on income support , so it was a move which was n't without it 's personal difficulties for us either . |
| 13 | We must have done because they talked , as we drove , of common friends we had had at that time , but I remembered none of them — or only a name , here and there . |
| 14 | That was what they seemed to have in common , that and Rufus 's brother and Adam knowing each other already , but after a while Adam got to see things he admired in Rufus , his toughness , the way he 'd got himself organized and in hand , the way he knew where he was going and yet still could be amusing and casual . |
| 15 | The feature they came to have in common was occupancy of land in South Kensington purchased with the profits from the 1851 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace . |
| 16 | That had been an awful tea they 'd had at five o'clock ; two slices of bread and fat , a slab of hard cake and a bowl of milk ; then nothing else , only a drink of water , if they wanted one , before they came to bed , and it only half-past seven . |
| 17 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 18 | What they did have in common , was a relatively poor organizational base among eligible electors and financial dependence on the leaders of industry and finance . |
| 19 | The first time he had to include his brother 's name in an anecdote , his voice hardened a little , but soon he was talking much more easily , telling her of picnics and expeditions and even fights they had had with each other and with the Italian sons of their mother 's friends and relations . |
| 20 | Both Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists actually had fewer churches in 1901 than they had had in 1870 . |
| 21 | But by the middle of the nineteenth century they had lost most of even the symbolic importance they had had in earlier generations . |
| 22 | Laura Davies , Sue Strudwick , Trish Johnson and Nicholas yesterday all spoke as one on the subject of how , but for the support they had had from certain European sponsors down the years , they would all be thinking in terms of pulling out of playing in Europe altogether . |
| 23 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 24 | But the Guider and all the Pack learned later on about her meeting with the stranger on the seat , because at the next Pack Meeting the Guider read out a letter from Mr. Bishop , the estate agent , which said the Earl of Ferngrove had given special instructions that the Brownie Guide Pack could continue to use the Park whenever they wished , as he was quite satisfied , thanks to a chat he 'd had with one of them , that they were very careful not to leave litter about in the Park . |
| 25 | No longer would youth and its culture have such a power to affect society as it had had for those brief few years from 1963 to 1967 : although the sharp end of youth culture was confusing purchasing power with political power and demanding change , many of its constituents were caught by the freeze that , introduced the previous year , signified the end of the ten-year boom that had thrust youth into prominence . |
| 26 | In 1933 roughly 4,000 banks shut their doors , and the United States was left with only half as many as it had had in 1929 . |
| 27 | They talked freely together about everything , about her sad life , her worries , her bad health , about how foul the world was , and it was more illuminating than plenty of conversations he had had with educated folk . |
| 28 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |