Example sentences of "had [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom Driberg claimed to have had oral sex with which former Labour minister ? |
| 2 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 3 | With the abolition of US capital controls in 1974 all US residents and corporations have had total freedom to invest their funds inside or outside the USA . |
| 4 | Within the year before the interview 27 patients had had pulmonary arterial pressures measured directly and 23 had had total lung capacity ( helium dilution ) and gas transfer measured . |
| 5 | Previously performed colonoscopy and/or barium enema had shown that seven had had total colitis , one patient had disease affecting the transverse colon , and three patients distal colitis — that is , the most proximal extension was below the splenic flexure . |
| 6 | Just as I am sure twenty-seven victories seemed utterly insufficient to Jackie — and had he not retired , he was certainly fit enough and a good enough driver , given the right cars , to which he would have had total access , to notch up another fifteen or twenty — I am sure that his first million seemed a trifle . |
| 7 | Downing Street repeatedly points out the two have had friendly telephone calls . |
| 8 | THE All Ireland schools ' finals take place tomorrow at the Baldoyle Centre in Dublin , and Coleraine Inst , who represent Ulster in the senior boys event , have had outstanding success since the early 80s winning the Irish title no less than nine times since 1980 . |
| 9 | All Falkenhayn could set against the Fifth Army 's disappointment at Verdun was the news that the simultaneous U-boat campaign ( as ordained in his Memorandum to the Kaiser ) had already had outstanding success . |
| 10 | It should be said , however , that Wimsatt 's treatment of the iconic properties of language is as far as the New Critics went in the direction of stylistic analysis as I have defined it ; in general they were much more interested in meaning than in forms of expression , and would have undoubtedly had scarce sympathy for Jakobson 's attempt to define the properties of poetry in purely linguistic terms . |
| 11 | Modern historians have had scant success with this material , which inspires little trust . |
| 12 | I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education . |
| 13 | The SNP has had Labour doing somersaults for months on Opposition cross-party co-operation . |
| 14 | ‘ Certainly I 've had terrific support from the part-time members and recognise the important contribution made by the full-time members . |
| 15 | Oh so you 've had bloody supper have you ? |
| 16 | ‘ I always loved bands who 've had classic debut singles , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Similar lava lakes to that of Halemaumau have been reported from many strange places : two of the most active volcanoes in Africa , Nyamlagira and Nyiragongo , have both had persistent lava lakes at different times in their history . |
| 18 | Lawton ( 1977 ) has shown that many rural districts around London and the other major cities have had persistent population increases since 1921 . |
| 19 | It seems clear , however , that Chatterton need n't have had prodigious talent for the talent expended in the novel to take effect . |
| 20 | What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out . |
| 21 | Editor , — Four groups of doctors suffer particularly from age discrimination during their attempts to move through the hospital training grades to consultant appointments : doctors who qualified abroad , those who entered medical school after the normal age of 18–19 , those who have had prolonged illness , and women . |
| 22 | The claim is biologically nonsensical , but it seems to have had political significance since it is first recorded in the context of a diplomatic initiative of the emperor Valentinian I , intended to secure Burgundian support against Macrianus , king of the Alamans . |
| 23 | It must be added that vocational schools have traditionally had low status . |
| 24 | Er the fact that we 've had low unemployment rates is due er mainly to the fact that provision was made for employment er in past years , and we want to make provision now to ensure that unemployment is as low as possible in the future . |
| 25 | We have n't had roast beef for ages . |
| 26 | By contrast , those still stone free nine months or more after dissolution treatment has stopped are genuinely likely to have had complete gall stone dissolution . |
| 27 | Since January 1990 all governing bodies of schools in Denmark have had complete control over school budgets , curricula , staff appointments and day-to-day management — the intention being to give teachers and parents more say in school management . |
| 28 | For too long , the state has had complete control of individual lives , freedoms , and powers . |
| 29 | If we had started on week one , where if we 'd had complete programme information up to week thirteen when , that 'd be more complete would n't it ? |
| 30 | However , Tyneside has never had administrative unity . |