Example sentences of "have have [det] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Punch wishes to assure you that he has had many a good belly laugh from the magazine which bore his name for so many years .
2 ‘ I do n't think there is any model who has had such a meteoric rise .
3 I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's
4 He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’
5 Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am very sorry to learn that my book has had such a distressing effect on you .
6 ‘ It has had such a marked effect on our safety performance that we are now organising shorter courses focused on specific needs , for example trade centres and the sales force . ’
7 No poet in the twentieth century has had such a conscious sense of his own work , or of the tradition in which he was operating .
8 It is one indication of why he has had such a unique influence on the history of mankind .
9 ‘ I 've never done anything that has had such a wonderful response .
10 And yet … we 'd had such a good few days I suppose I wanted to keep the mood going .
11 But after our day out when we 'd had such a good time it seemed as though you might care and that we could have a chance .
12 And , you know , we all lost a good friend ; I 'd had such a great time over those last two days working with him and with Eric , and I think about that time quite a bit .
13 Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck .
14 ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’
15 Without the spectators cheering me on I do n't think I could have had such a good race .
16 They must have had such a pleasing approach to Raasay House ; the bay of their arrival seems unlikely to have changed , a wide and gentle place , now full of windsurfers — the mansion where they stayed now houses an Adventure School .
17 ‘ I can not think , ’ remarked Russell , ‘ Why laziness should have had such a bad press .
18 Others , who may not have had such a happy relationship with their parents in the past , take on care out of a sense of duty .
19 ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position .
20 Yeah actually I could have had that the other day if I 'd have thought but I did n't bother .
21 But if he 'd have had some a little bit of direction
22 It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’
23 It 's a bit naughty is n't it to have had such a good game and er
24 I had a choice between a Western adventure in German , two American spy thrillers or a much-thumbed pornographic comic which had had all the lurid pages torn out as wanking aids .
25 Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own .
26 Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down .
27 They seemed disappointed to hear that we had had such a pleasant day on the far bank .
28 That was my thing , 'cause the dashboard we had had such a cool snare sound . ’
29 Recalling the tragedy of which Juliette had spoken and which had had such a devastating effect on his mind , Melissa felt uneasy .
30 She was no longer the easy-going tomboy with whom he had had such a simple and uncomplicated relationship .
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