Example sentences of "have had such " in BNC.

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1 ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’
2 ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press .
3 It need not have had such fears .
4 How unexpected , therefore , that Libya should have had such frequent elections — events which are the typical political rituals of party democracies .
5 Traditional though that activity is of the students of past generations who have gone into the making of the tradition can have had such impressive aids .
6 Others , who may not have had such a happy relationship with their parents in the past , take on care out of a sense of duty .
7 Why on earth would he have had such a thing ?
8 ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position .
9 It seems incredible to us today that Carey should have had such difficulty in convincing christians of the necessity of sharing the Gospel with ‘ the heathen ’ , but this is because we take for granted the radical influence his views have had upon our modern view of mission .
10 Rarely can a goalkeeper have had such an incentive to shut out a former club than Rovers ' Bobby Mimms has at Ewood Park this afternoon .
11 ‘ She must have had such high hopes and now they have been dashed . ’
12 Sexual dysfunction or what we loosely term " deviation " may have consequences beyond the man or Woman subject to them ; and when they are encountered by the social worker they probably will already have had such consequences .
13 Watkins L.J. , in Berry ( No. 2 ) may have had such dicta in mind when he stated ,
14 They must have had such a pleasing approach to Raasay House ; the bay of their arrival seems unlikely to have changed , a wide and gentle place , now full of windsurfers — the mansion where they stayed now houses an Adventure School .
15 He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) .
16 She remembered Rob , the eldest boy , named after her mama 's father who had died in Arizona , saying to her one day , after she had been caught riding bareback at her uncle Orrin 's ranch in Wyoming , ‘ What a pity you were n't a boy , Sally-Anne ; we could have had such fun together . ’
17 The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic .
18 Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck .
19 I would just like to say a few , a few things to er especially to Rupert and Mr David er without their help and cooperation we would never have had such er , er nev would never have started this project erm we thank you very much .
20 Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race .
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