Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 3 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
| 4 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 5 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 6 | B : ‘ For about nine months we have had a succession of builders , surveyors and decorators trooping in and out . |
| 7 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 8 | But in the last few months he 's had a lot to cope with following the death of his best friend in a road accident . |
| 9 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 10 | He 'd bet twenty.dollars she 'd had a fender bender and that the car looked like a concertina . |
| 11 | ‘ We all know there 's no more sorry sight in the world than a lady who 's had a drop too much , but a spoonful or so can be highly medicinal . |
| 12 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 13 | He discovered that as a girl she had had a passion for Stendhal , so had he , and they talked about Julien Sorel and Tolstoi and Rimbaud . |
| 14 | In published series of patients with constipation and irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain there is an excess of womeh who have had a hysterectomy but this may be because women who are referred to hospital with these disorders tend to be anxious and polysymptomatic . |
| 15 | Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic . |
| 16 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 17 | ‘ Since the Chancellor 's announcement we have had a lot of inquiries which we are confident of turning into sales , ’ says Rover dealer Ashmall Parkinson salesman David Bailey . |
| 18 | Ever since Munich we 've had a cascade of appeasement . |
| 19 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 20 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 21 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 22 | But of course , in the meanwhile , of course we 've had a flood . |
| 23 | Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage … |
| 24 | ‘ I had a fair amount to do with the mechanised letter office at Middlesbrough and other major post office buildings , ’ said Mr Ensoll who has had a hand in new buildings for Crook , Saltburn , Coulby Newham and Hartlepool . |
| 25 | You never have to tell a person who 's had a heart attack , you never need to tell a woman when her husband has a stroke , I have to . |
| 26 | By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain . |
| 27 | Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him . |
| 28 | He 's been on the sauce basically but he 's kicked the habit and he says of kicking the drinking habit I 've had a lot of help and a lot of good counselling , in the end it 's up to me . |
| 29 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 30 | ‘ In fact , a peculiarity about this condition is that it seldom if ever occurs in a woman who 's had a baby . ’ |