Example sentences of "[vb past] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 2 | But his mother went to the police and tried to have the old custody order enforced . |
| 3 | On yet another impulse , she stopped to have a quick look , because it just might have mentioned where Slane was , might n't it ? |
| 4 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
| 5 | He told me you 'd had a serious tiff , but he hopes to persuade you to return to LA . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd had a serious liaison before the war with a young girl whom he 'd got pregnant . |
| 7 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 8 | She 'd had a terrible time at the birth . |
| 9 | That 's what I said first , I said ooh they 'd had a terrible job ! |
| 10 | He 'd had a blazing row with a ‘ Foreign Office Johnnie ’ , and was on the point of bursting when a third voice had come onto the line . |
| 11 | But I I thought then he 'd had a slight stroke so to make him |
| 12 | ‘ I believe they behaved as if he 'd had a fortunate escape — condemned Isabelle as an aventurière , and worse . |
| 13 | Quite right ; but I 'd had a vague recollection , and looked it up , and although the shirt of the centaur Nessus , saturated as it was in his poisoned blood , had caused Hercules no end of pain … |
| 14 | Second , on any other night Hilda might have dozed off in the chair , but not after she 'd had a flaming row with Viola . ’ |
| 15 | But they 'd had a thorough look through his life just to be sure and hit the jackpot entirely by chance . |
| 16 | ‘ By the time I 'd got to Surrey , ’ says Shaun of the trials and tribulations of recording ‘ Yes Please ’ , ‘ I 'd had a great time in Barbados letting off steam and everything . |
| 17 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 18 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 19 | I 'd had a stable home at the price of her martyrdom and this was how I 'd repaid her . |
| 20 | ‘ If only I 'd had a stable childhood , maybe none of this would have happened … . ’ |
| 21 | With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England . |
| 22 | Surely , after the wonderful night of passion she had experienced with Ross , they 'd had a real chance of mending their relationship ? |
| 23 | He 'd had a real pimple when he arrived , but during the time he took to find and bribe an official to provide the documents , the blemish had healed , . |
| 24 | well although he told me he 'd er , he 'd , well he 'd had a reasonable catch he 'd er , remember them , bring one up |
| 25 | Diane had n't been a stunner , but she 'd had a pleasant face and a more than tolerably decent body . |
| 26 | Poor old thing — but she 'd had a good life by all accounts . ’ |
| 27 | I was optimistic , because I 'd had a good turnout two years earlier for a smaller project , the clean-up of an old railway path . |
| 28 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
| 29 | Tomorrow , when she 'd had a good night 's sleep , she 'd be much better capable of dealing with him . |
| 30 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |