Example sentences of "[pron] have had [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's only what anyone knows , really , you could n't say I 'd had exactly wide experience .
2 This is what I try to do in the Library , and I 've had very good feedback from outside users .
3 Not only have I received representations from the Apparel , Knitting and Textiles Alliance , but my right hon. Friend and I have had most useful discussions with it .
4 We 're going to see a musical called ‘ Crazy for You ’ which has had exceptionally good reviews , then a separate room in a restaurant has been booked — a sort of glorified Pizza Express so , thankfully , not to expensive ( for Central London anyway ) .
5 Secondly , although a number of regions were providing courses for trainees which had had initially beneficial effects , there was a general shortage of such courses and also of the skilled resources necessary for the development of well-founded schemes .
6 We 've held two conferences on on erm Third World refugees of an academic kind and made proposals , some of which have had very concrete results in the form of aid from the British government to some of these groups .
7 Silvia 's spoken English , as she had heard for herself , was excellent , but she 'd had dreadfully poor results in her written papers .
8 Bangladeshi mothers were chosen as a relatively recently arrived group of suitable demographic structure who had had comparatively little exposure to the infant care practices of the city in which they now live .
9 Adduct levels were also significantly higher in patients who had had previous truncal vagotomy and drainage ( mean adduct level=10.2 adducts/ 10 nucleotides ) than in those who had had highly selective vatogomy ( mean adduct level= 3.3 adducts/10 nucleotides ; p<0.001 Mann-Whitney U test ; Fig 2 ) .
10 A limited extent of gastric metaplasia ( of 1% in two and 16% in one patient respectively ) was also found in three patients who had had highly selective vagotomy in the past .
11 Each chapter of the book concentrates on a specific area , which is illustrated by the lives of several mothers who have had particularly relevant experiences .
12 Those people who have had deep religious experiences often talk about them with a sense of awe — the feeling many of us have had as little children when we 've been in the presence of something powerful and magnificent .
13 compensation package for V A T for pensioners will not compensate them in full as was promised , and in view of the fact that we 've had extremely cold weather for the last week .
14 But er however things went on and er we , we 've had very bad years some years when the we , stuck too much I think to some of the Morris of course er they had their troubles of course and , and then eventually we , it was funny we were the only two people in the whole of Britain who h ho held the agencies for Austin and Morris together and we were at times we were thinking we must lose one of them .
15 Yeah , we 've had really heavy rain this end and it 's beginning to dry up , but it 's still very strong winds
16 Are they , are they have they , are they stupid , have they gone totally mad and they 're obstructing this thing for ever and ever and ever just for the sake of obstructing and you have t to listen to what they say on on this , the argument that we 're having here and have had here and the argument that we 've had about old people 's homes , they 've been two running sores in this authority and hopefully today in both of them we 'll be making progress and I think I 'd like to .
17 We have had remarkably good figures over the past year and we are determined to beat them in 1992 .
18 After all we have had very good experience over the last 5–10 years !
19 We have had very good co-operation with the police in this widespread operation .
20 We have had very generous responses to previous requests to our membership .
21 We have been lucky enough to see the Minister of State ; he has been very kind and we have had really good discussions with him .
22 getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject .
23 Children , having built up in the early stages of their lives an ‘ ego ideal ’ with whom they have had apparently satisfactory relationships , are for the rest of their lives attempting to transfer this ideal on to other people or organisations .
24 Also they have had very nice games up til now … you look at their xmas schedule .
25 It has had very different meanings and connotations in its long history , and is understood differently today in the context of different social and economic systems .
26 It pointed out that , in the pressure areas , it had had only modest success in achieving a steady flow of land on to the market .
27 Its aid to the new country has been paltry , and threats to withdraw it have had correspondingly little impact .
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