Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to its flat landscape , Norfolk has long had a reputation for its fantastic light quality , a phenomenon that has been captured to great effect by many painters . |
| 2 | ‘ Perks has never had a birthday like it ! ’ she said . |
| 3 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 4 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 5 | At the time of going to press , Sir Anthony had already had a series of strategy discussions with chief executive Dr Brian Eyre , as well as meetings with the DTI 's privatisation advisers , investment bankers Barclays De Zoete Wedd , and our own advisers , management consultants McKinseys and merchant bankers Lazard Brothers . |
| 6 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 7 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 8 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 9 | Left : Collectair has long had a fascination with the magazine Tee Emm . |
| 10 | Botham has always had a taste for showbiz . |
| 11 | ‘ The difference between Manchester and Liverpool groups is that Liverpool has never had a university tradition . ’ |
| 12 | Lindsey had always had an interest in the Lockheed P-38 Lightning . |
| 13 | She had no idea that Bridget and Geoffrey had ever had an affair . |
| 14 | But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out . |
| 15 | Seb had always had an instinct for whether or not something was likely to make money , but now he was required to record farm profit and expenditure for Christian it was not enough to leave it all to Carrie . |
| 16 | On the 1st of January " in that year Sir Daniel had also had a letter from a Robert Tolson about the leasing of his copper mines . |
| 17 | As a result of an extremely adverse recommendation from an Independent Mediator with regard to AIB Great Britain Salaries , IBOA has recently had a meeting with AIB Bank Management . |
| 18 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |
| 19 | TIM ASHTON HAD just had an advertising executive 's lunch 1991 style : a starter and a Perrier at l'Escargot . |
| 20 | Schuler had earlier had an approach from a Japan steel company and , as he waited for his knee to heal , he wondered about his future . |
| 21 | The doctor did not tell the family that Esther had probably had a stroke , for fear of alarming them . |
| 22 | Emily had never had a head for figures , and her brother-in-law , Marcus Judge , had kept an eye on her finances from the beginning , gradually acquiring a controlling interest in the business . |
| 23 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 24 | Chris 's sister-in-law loved the baby and when he died she was so upset she told Chris that little Tommy had never had a chance . |
| 25 | Joanna Lumley had always had a passion , as she put it , for Dirk Bogarde ; Dustin Hoffman was a fan of Sting ; John Lennon had been a great Monty Python fan , and so Yoko was delighted to meet John Cleese . |
| 26 | But the people of the Dordogne have always had a reputation for being independent thinkers . ’ |
| 27 | Dame Diana has already had a letter from him , welcoming her to his church and pulpit . |
| 28 | Keith has always had a thing for men in uniform . |
| 29 | Mr Adley has since had a letter from the deposed Mrs Thatcher , welcoming the eventual restoration of relations with Syria . |
| 30 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |