Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have this [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean if it is helpful and Mr and I did have this discussion in the pre-meeting that we had , er certainly if you wish to recommend that the d that the stars on the the diagram were to be changed er just simply to show one star instead of a route , then I for one would be quite happy with that .
2 You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation .
3 They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’
4 What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free .
5 Lucy almost quailed beneath the onslaught of his wrath , but she persisted with her argument , mainly because she needed to have this point cleared in her own mind .
6 But we did have this idea that the whole tribe went around together .
7 We did have this problem before but we started earlier did n't we ?
8 Yes Chairman , we we did have this debate in er budget review as I remember it .
9 Cos they 'd had this meal .
10 They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant .
11 But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue .
12 It was n't the first time he 'd had this nightmare ; it was happening more often nowadays .
13 Yeah I , I , I think , I think it was about by the time he , he 'd had this allowance from you know going to College , I , I think it left him with about twenty seven bob a week , which was n't bad you know .
14 Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office .
15 He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero .
16 And , by the way , he did have this job in Italy , but if it was in the slightest degree inconvenient to join them in the villa , he 'd book into a cheap little pensione by the railway station in Siena .
17 It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience .
18 He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’
19 But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure .
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