Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie kept catching her eye with an expression of knowing amusement , but at the same time she obviously hated having these men stomping through her every possession and destroying any remaining magic in her secret chamber . |
| 2 | Henri was a totally normal baby until six months , when he suddenly started having infantile spasms . |
| 3 | However , the Colorados ' Batllismo Radical faction , which hitherto had had one representative in the Cabinet pulled out of the coalition . |
| 4 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 5 | The phenomenal rise in venereal diseases and the performance of abortions ‘ for social reasons ’ were two of the unintended consequences of sexual hedonism which nevertheless seemed to have little effect on sexual behaviour . |
| 6 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 7 | He thus arranged to have each Dalek fitted with a waistband of vertical metal slats to suggest some form of solar ray receiving system . |
| 8 | Brenda soon began to have lovely rides on her bike . |
| 9 | ‘ He already had had similar amounts — and more , much more — and nothing had happened . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know why I ever agreed to have this car . |
| 11 | But whereas Oldman always seemed to have mainstream Hollywood in his sights . |
| 12 | Erm , I do n't know how they live , yet they always seemed to have enough money you know . |
| 13 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
| 14 | ‘ By the Lord , Jimmie , you always did have rose-edged ambitions , but like sunsets they fade . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You always did have strange ideas . ’ |
| 16 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 17 | ‘ I always wanted to have nice things , ’ she explained , seeing Ianthe 's interested looks , ‘ so I collected these over the years . ’ |
| 18 | They probably expected to have Jewish readers too . |
| 19 | Workers had rallied enthusiastically to the Soviet , and soldiers in the capital also seemed to have more faith in it than in the Duma leaders . |
| 20 | The young people also wanted to have some enjoyment in their scarce free time and escape from the contradictions of their ‘ privileged ’ position . |
| 21 | He often seemed to have strange ideas about singers . |
| 22 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 23 | As the number of patients who originally had had solitary stones was small , the difference does not reach statistical significance and this was also true when the analysis was based on the 26 patients who had recurrence diagnosed by oral cholecystectography or ultrasound , or both ( 14.5 ( 9.5 ) % for those who had had single stones and 46.4 ( 8.1 ) % for those with multiple stones : NS ) . |
| 24 | In such a climate it seems even more suitable to pursue the creation of a radical , insider ethnography and in the not too distant past this even seemed to have official support . |
| 25 | We then proceeded to have straight sex without using a condom . |
| 26 | On the other hand , given the state of confusion in France and the fact that Thorez himself was in Moscow , it was not clear that the communist hierarchy was in a position to control communist maquisards , many of whom undoubtedly did have revolutionary aspirations . |
| 27 | Women did not eat as many sausages , pies , or fish and chips than men , yet did have more fruit and recommended reduced fat milk . |
| 28 | We never seemed to have much trouble anyway . |
| 29 | He was a legit , braceleted , but he never seemed to have any money , and somehow he seemed to avoid the gangs , legit and illegit , that roamed the upper Levels . |
| 30 | ‘ One of the reasons you went to the cinema when I was a teenager was to pick up girls , but I never seemed to have any luck . |