Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] have had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bush thus maintained his record of never having had a veto overridden in Congress . |
| 2 | By falling 27 votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority the House ensured that Bush maintained his record of never having had a veto overturned . |
| 3 | If his real reason for inviting her was a kind of face-saving operation in front of his former ex-wife , he might at least have had the honesty to say so . |
| 4 | You might not be able to come but at least you can you may at least have had the opportunity , so erm that 's how they 're being decided . |
| 5 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 6 | The breathless warning she would have uttered earlier would at least have had the ring of sincerity , but now she was only too conscious of having to play a part . |