Example sentences of "have have quite a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
2 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
3 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
4 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
5 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
6 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
7 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
8 | It 's quite interesting that where you think you 've you 've rung say , Freda or Amber in the evening and you 've had quite a lengthy conversation in , mentally you think that |
9 | If I can just join in the Scum-bashing here , am I the only person that thinks Sharpe is the most over-rated piece of crap ever to have pulled on a red shirt ( and they 've had quite a few ) ? |
10 | I 've had quite a few patients . |
11 | Should think they 've had quite a few . |
12 | I 've had quite a few . |
13 | I 've I 've had quite a few nicknames . |
14 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |
15 | We have had quite a few trainees , youth trainees in garden centres , and golf courses , which surprised me , but golf courses apparently could use quite a lot of people . |
16 | Alan Hansen , of Ipswich Port Authority , said : ‘ We have had quite a severe downturn in our business at the West Bank terminal . |