Example sentences of "[vb past] have [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamie was in the middle of a story about a disagreement he 'd had with a master at his school over the A-level English syllabus when the phone rang . |
| 2 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |
| 3 | It was pink , one he 'd had from a baby . |
| 4 | No , but I 'll come onto some effects that it did have in a moment . |
| 5 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 6 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 7 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 8 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 9 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 10 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 11 | So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion . |
| 12 | ‘ In the beginning , Freddie did n't have all the powers that he wanted to have as a vocalist ; he worked to achieve those and improved as he worked over the years . |