Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have had a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 'm afraid you 've had a wasted trip , Ms Bishopric .
2 ‘ I 'm afraid you 've had a wasted trip , ’ Veronica said .
3 ‘ I 'm so sorry you 've had a vain journey .
4 I 'm sorry you 've had a wasted journey .
5 She said , ‘ Angharad is out on the hills alone , so I can not come to the Fair ’ , and she said , ‘ I am sorry you have had a wasted journey ’ , and she said , ‘ Have a nice time at the Fair . ’
6 In December 1986 she had had a transient ischaemic attack for which she had been given enteric coated aspirin ( ecotrin 300 mg/day ) .
7 The West Ham manager , Billy Bonds , who has already fined Dicks and stripped him of the club captaincy , admitted yesterday : ‘ It is obvious we have had a disciplinary problem this season and it is something we are going to have to try to put straight .
8 Three point three has been rather involved er aspects of examining average teachers ' salary costs basically will fall down given that we 've had a sixty five percent return from schools and we will be able to use this year , coming year the actual mandatory points in determining how delegation of salaries should be proceeded with .
9 erm first of all we have had a post-War baby boom , a small one , and then a big one in the late fifties to the late seventies , peaking in nineteen sixty four , when in nineteen sixty four — I forget the figure — about nine hundred and sixty thousand babies were born in Great Britain .
10 I was sure he had had a gloating look in his eyes when he found out I had been robbed .
11 Where publicity is concerned I 've had a raw deal .
12 Ever since Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848 it has had a special place in the affections of the royal family .
13 From the mid-sixties I had had a homosexual identity and I did say to people that I was homosexual ; but in the early seventies that had a completely different meaning .
14 But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms .
15 In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform .
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