Example sentences of "[pers pn] had have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
2 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
3 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
4 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
5 | Cos I thought I had to have a tetanus , and she goes , oh you do n't need it . |
6 | In rationalising the corporation and giving it the equipment that would allow it to compete with rivals , particularly foreign rivals , I had to have a capital programme . |
7 | I had to have a lie-down . |
8 | I had to have a bit because when I put the blackcurrant in there was n't enough so I had to mix it up with . |
9 | After this build-up , I had to have a go . |
10 | In the end I had to have a go ! |
11 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
12 | I had to have a tracheostomy operation , and from then on I needed twenty-four-hour nursing care . |
13 | I had to have a tracheostomy operation that removed my voice . |
14 | I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels . |
15 | so I mean she 's , she 's she 's and I said to her when when all the things were going wrong with I had to have a lot of chats with her and said well you you 've got to prove that you can rebound from this |
16 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
17 | I had to have a cast on it and I could n't play guitar at all in any fashion . |
18 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
19 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
20 | At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray . |
21 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
22 | The dread excitement of D-Day came , and I longed to be at Bletchley where I felt I had had a rôle . |
23 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
24 | Since then I had had a healing , been taking massive doses of vitamin C , regular doses of vitamin A and B and supplements of zinc and selenium , eating my ‘ stay-well ’ diet and doing my visualization . |
25 | After the hearing Dennett said : ‘ I had had a drink . |
26 | They were all very heartened that someone was at last taking an interest : I only wish I had had a tape recorder ! |
27 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
28 | I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done . |
29 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
30 | ‘ If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’ |