Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course I 'd had a few drinks , and I had n't worn my glasses anyway , so when the time came to meet her I was n't quite sure what she looked like . |
| 2 | Down the Boarman they 've had a three , three offers of Hamper Agency for next year . |
| 3 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 4 | Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department . |
| 5 | Now of course she 's had a tremendous effect on , on fashion knitwear ever since she 's been involved with before . |
| 6 | Similarly , similarly I have prepared all this but just shortly before the meeting I have had a whole wodge of suggestion forms going back to November which I have obviously not taken into account yet . . |
| 7 | By the time the highlights were on t.v I 'd had a few beers and was n't paying much attention ! |
| 8 | Never mind you can play the Bare Naked Lady thingummybobs and er then hopefully we go oh he 's in the shop he 's had a few customers we 'll get back to John a bit later . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I would say that after a rotten beginning I 've had a good life — That 's not very helpful , is it ? ’ |
| 10 | All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going . |
| 11 | She did literally now , ever since that turn she 'd had a few months ago ; frightened of the stairs , the climb when the lifts did n't work , she rarely went out , but stayed surrounded and walled-in by belongings , old letters , cards , souvenirs scattered over the furniture . |
| 12 | A spokesman for Sarova Hotels said : ‘ In the past we have had a satisfactory working relationship with BCCI and the current situation has not presented problems . ’ |
| 13 | As a young man he had had a strong desire to visit the United States and decided to go there for a holiday , but as the liner approached New York , he dreamed that his mother ( to whom he was not particularly strongly attached ) was lonely and missed him , and this dream made him terribly homesick . |
| 14 | With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England . |
| 15 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
| 16 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 17 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 18 | In writing this book we have had a double objective . |
| 19 | They had said at the school she had had a screaming session . |
| 20 | ‘ Peter has provided the ammunition and this year we have had a wonderful run with our two-year-olds . |
| 21 | As a result in this country we have had a heavy tax burden and a structure of taxation which is a major disincentive to take risk , to invest and even to work . |
| 22 | In my grandmother 's house I had had a big bedroom ; here I had to share . |
| 23 | In fact she 'd had a brief nap on the flight over and the adrenalin was racing round her body , making the possibility of sleep unlikely , but anything was better than sitting like a frightened child beside him , hoping against hope that he would finally melt and utter the sort of words she had once yearned to hear . |
| 24 | under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration . |
| 25 | This is the first time we 've had a regular monthly feature in the magazine just for Silver electronics . |
| 26 | Every time we 've had a Conservative administration waiting lists have gone down . |
| 27 | We 've been through the records and we 're pretty sure this is the first time we have had a Prime Minister here . |
| 28 | ‘ The sale is not any reflection on the business — in fact we have had a brilliant year , ’ Lady Tryon tells me . |
| 29 | Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head . |
| 30 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |