Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | B : ‘ For about nine months we have had a succession of builders , surveyors and decorators trooping in and out . |
| 6 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd bet twenty.dollars she 'd had a fender bender and that the car looked like a concertina . |
| 9 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Ever since Munich we 've had a cascade of appeasement . |
| 15 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 16 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But of course , in the meanwhile , of course we 've had a flood . |
| 19 | By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months . |
| 23 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
| 24 | Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind . |
| 25 | It 's just that this year I have had a lot of weak influencing situations , been on a lot of projects groups and so on , and last year I needed a lot of extra staff . |
| 26 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
| 27 | I had no idea I 'd had a baby . |
| 28 | ‘ This is the twentieth year we have had a tree . |
| 29 | A few occassions this year he 's had a go at some defender who is twice as big as him . |
| 30 | Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent . |