Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem . |
| 2 | Get granddad did have a look at his ears but erm he just had to dropped it erm |
| 3 | Prepared in only a few weeks to satisfy an urgent need for cash on the part of Steinitz , who is building an auction house complex at Saint Ouen in the suburbs of Paris , the auction did have a catalogue covering 352 major items but without printed estimates . |
| 4 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 5 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 6 | The problem had arisen because the first plan used had a river running through the property — what no-one had realised was that the course of the river had changed , leaving a piece of land unconveyed . |
| 7 | The message added : ‘ The district council has taken legal advice from senior counsel who have confirmed that the district council did have a case which it could competently pursue against the local paper . |
| 8 | One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack . |
| 9 | In 1750 the town sought to have a linen market set up but met with opposition from Richhill where a linen market had been flourishing . |
| 10 | I would accept that since I saw a report only the other day about such a case ( the funeral director involved had a son in my class who brought me the file ) the embalmer had used 8 oz per 80 oz of a very good fluid , but had not put in any co or pre injection fluids and did not mix any other fluids , and he put in 4 × 80 oz bottles . |
| 11 | Inexplicably her body seemed to have a desire of its own — to go on being touched by him . |
| 12 | Papa decided to have a game-park . ’ |
| 13 | Veterans of many WAAF reunions , the group decided to have a holiday together , and with kind help from Richard Branson and Virgin Airlines , spent two weeks in Florida . |
| 14 | But the community did have a couple of heroes in the military sense when the Second World War came , both members of a family which plays a leading role in the modern legends of Baldersdale — the Fawcetts of West Birk Hatt |
| 15 | ( If the change in the production process did have a capital cost then some at least of the cost of that capital would go to pay the wages and salaries of those in the capital goods industry . |
| 16 | But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim . |
| 17 | Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ? |
| 18 | One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled . |
| 19 | The archer had to have a face . |
| 20 | The long night had had a result ; he was back in control again . |
| 21 | Everyone in television seemed to have a sense of their self-importance , Dexter reflected . |
| 22 | When the antislavery movement as a movement began to have a history , the writing of it by participants or writers dependent upon the perspective of participants contributed to a unifying consciousness central to which was a veneration of the heroic first generation who in their functional and religious diversity confirmed the possibility of unity in common endeavour . |
| 23 | Moreover , men were selfish , cold-hearted and dull , and yet it seemed that , for some reason she could n't quite fathom , a woman needed to have a man around . |
| 24 | My father did have a bike actually |
| 25 | His father longed to have a sports star as a son , but Kasmin was too small . |
| 26 | Her father had had a link with Italy . |
| 27 | Before he went to the hospital , John Coffin had had a telephone call from his current girlfriend . |
| 28 | Anyone seeking temporary work beyond his own parish had to have a certificate ( signed by the minister and an overseer ) which acknowledged legal responsibility . |
| 29 | Sometimes , when there were guests in the house Mandru liked to have a vibrancy performed after supper , or during the afternoon , purely for entertainment . |
| 30 | If someone had the right thought , that the play did begin there at eight , then their thought did have a content that was true , but that content was not identical with the actual state of affairs . |