Example sentences of "had the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But at least you 've had the enjoyment of the wind .
2 But you must of had the enjoyment of , of the work itself ?
3 We have had the devil and all of a riot at Padstow .
4 ‘ I 'm semi-female now , and women 've always had the excuse that they like to change their minds .
5 Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets .
6 I think regretfully of my own fireplace ; I have not had the chimney-sweep around ; it ca n't be used .
7 We have never had the problem of the children detaching themselves from us .
8 Suddenly a soccer backwater had tasted success but , as Mr Stringer readily admits : ‘ We have always had the problem of being sidetracked . ’
9 Surprisingly , after using this method , I have never had the problem of ‘ running ’ stitches .
10 In many ways the challenge of qualifying games could have made life much easier for Vogts , who has had the problem of motivating his team to play two years of friendlies before they defend their World Cup crown in 1994 .
11 Well we 'd always had the problem going to school .
12 He has never had the service from midfield that Sharp , Gray and Lineker had .
13 ‘ We 've had the law round here tonight , ’ Scott told him .
14 Nevertheless , the overall result is richer than it would have been had the speaker just produced [ 14b ] , and , I believe , richer than it would have been had the speaker produced an alternative metaphor in which the pound was actually mentioned .
15 Nevertheless , the overall result is richer than it would have been had the speaker just produced [ 14b ] , and , I believe , richer than it would have been had the speaker produced an alternative metaphor in which the pound was actually mentioned .
16 B : mm oh yes oh aye oh aye I 've had the telephone since nineteen thirty eight +
17 We 've had , we 've had the video repaired and
18 So much torrential rain fell overnight and throughout the day of the finals that the organisers decided to dispense with scrums and let the team who would have had the scrum take a free-kick instead .
19 It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons .
20 The commission has had the significance of this research confirmed by independent analysts , which leaves a serious problem to be explained and solved .
21 He continues : ‘ The commission has had the significance of this research confirmed by independent analysts , which leaves a serious problem to be explained and solved . ’
22 The cut where the wing had been severed was quite clean , and the blood had dried up , so she concluded that the poor bird must have flown through some overhead wires in the vicinity during the severe gales we 'd had the night before .
23 But then the same problem applies because you 'll have had the night staff working all day Friday night , come off duty about seven , eight o'clock in the morning .
24 The survey was conducted before base rates rose to 15 per cent , and Dun and Bradstreet suggest that its findings might have been even bleaker had the poll been taken after the move .
25 but I have n't had the Jeddah gin yet
26 The next phase will be er this phase , site three er , which we will be providing twenty one er , flats to rent as your nominees er three units for the special needs and for those like I told you , it 's about twenty four rented to nominees we 've had the funding for that pre-allocated by the housing corporation so they are er , committed to , to funding that .
27 But he had n't had the guts to do it .
28 Clinton has seen off those who have had the guts to compete for the prize .
29 Whoever he was , he had had the guts not to shout .
30 Ho ho Keith , some wags at the NME have taken to calling MAW ‘ musicians against success ’ because — get this — those musicians who 've had the guts to stand up and be counted like Sinead O'Connor , The Farm , Carter USM , Cud , Billy Bragg , Lisa Stansfield , The Stones , Lush , Orbital and Soho are all ‘ failures that no-one 's heard of ’ .
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