Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been all this time contented about his welfare , now that her leaving was fixed and certain , she had begun to have misgivings . |
| 2 | Eva had pretended she would have to do office work until after lunch on the Sunday , when in fact she had wanted to have lunch out at a cafe with a girlfriend . |
| 3 | She had chosen to have Hunter-Blair stay , saying she had no objection to his presence if Wickham did not . |
| 4 | Engineers were already on the site when work had to stop and Patrice Clerc , Director of the French Open , in confirming the Federation 's decision to appeal , said , ‘ We had hoped to have things ready for next year . |
| 5 | Paccy Moore had said they were two fine ladies when they had gone to have heels put on Benny 's good shoes . |
| 6 | The Christmas tree was already ensconced in the drawing-room , so they had arranged to have tea in the dining-room , where a lovely fire was blazing . |
| 7 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 8 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 9 | Near the entrance to the park , an Army doctor was working , but the only medicine he had was iodine , which he painted over cuts , bruises , slimy burns , everything — and by now everything that he had painted had pus on it . |
| 10 | A moment ago , he had seemed to have Harry at his mercy . |
| 11 | He wondered why he had considered having recourse to a public library when he had a much simpler means to hand of identifying the house in the newspaper paragraph . |