Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 2 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
| 3 | Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary . |
| 4 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 5 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
| 6 | But the plain fact is that I have had a devilish run of ill luck , and I do not care for Thompson 's tariff . |
| 7 | He did n't interfere here , Uncle saw to that , so I 've had a free hand in the shop and although I say it myself I 've made a go of it . ’ |
| 8 | My constituency includes part of four divisions , so I have had a unique opportunity to see the problems which the police face in diverse communities . |
| 9 | ‘ Have a good cry ’ , ‘ I 'll feel better once I 've had a good cry ’ , ‘ I 'm worried about her , she has n't shed a tear since she had the news ’ , are all sayings which have a recognized place in our language . |
| 10 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 11 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
| 12 | Flowers stated that she had had a sporadic sexual relationship with Clinton between 1977 and 1989 , and she had provided the newspaper with a number of taped telephone conversations between herself and Clinton from 1990 to 1992 which appeared to endorse aspects of her claim . |
| 13 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 14 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 15 | The five-star novelist gave me an unfathomable glimmer when I closed the car door for her and remarked that she 'd had a long chat with Harry that afternoon on the telephone . |
| 16 | Lucinda came home from her first riding lesson and told her dad that she 'd had a great time . |
| 17 | Her GP informed us that she has had a further recurrence of left hemiparesis and , after investigation , the provisional diagnosis is demyelination . |
| 18 | I was very pleased that you 'd had a good go at that |
| 19 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 20 | If you do n't make a sale , or it was a successful day , it 's the fact that you 've had a full day of activity that matters . |
| 21 | His concluding words were : I do not find it easy to stand here and tell those of you who are deaf that you have had a poor education , and that your children are having the same poor education . |
| 22 | They 'll want to speak to you and ask why you need an emergency supply and check that you have had a previous prescription for the same medicine . |
| 23 | Ok , so you 've had a great Christmas , but if your New Year 's resolution is to get back into shape then you 'd better check out Kathy Smith 's new Workout videos . |
| 24 | Yeah , so you 've had a good time then ? |
| 25 | ‘ So you 've had a wasted trip , ’ she said sympathetically . |
| 26 | Once she has had a good rest , her world will put on a fresh complexion . ’ |
| 27 | that we 've had a slight increase in the percentage of our employees , albeit that 's got to be seen against erm , er er a lower total of employees altogether . |
| 28 | But then again , we can say that we 've had a quiet week Saturday and Sunday , or from Friday till through till Monday morning , it can be packed out with people just visiting the blues . |
| 29 | ‘ That we 'd had a short but intense affair , and when we 'd met again and realised we still felt the same about each other you 'd revealed how Thomas was mine . ’ |
| 30 | The Mnchener is suing Atlantic Richfield for nearly $150m , alleging that the company knew that the products the unit was developing would never be commercially viable , and according to the Wall Street Journal citing electronic mail messages , one of which says that as it appears the development ‘ is a pipe dream , let Siemens have the pipe , ’ and another that says ‘ We will attempt to finesse past Siemens the fact that we have had a great deal of trouble in successfully transitioning technology from the laboratory to the factory ’ ; Atlantic Richfield denies attempting to mislead Siemens over the unit . |