Example sentences of "i have have [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Ever since the journey to this place seventeen months ago I 'd had occasional panic attacks at the thought of being ‘ mummified ’ and stuck in the base of a truck again .
2 I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all .
3 I 'd had one week after another when my wages were light , what with fines and that .
4 Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector .
5 Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew .
6 I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf .
7 But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal .
8 I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why .
9 Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything .
10 ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’
11 That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year .
12 Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’
13 It rang again almost immediately — Alan again , asking if I 'd had any luck .
14 When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so .
15 If only I 'd had more time .
16 I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger .
17 My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else .
18 You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation .
19 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
20 ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see .
21 I had to have another look .
22 Four months later , I had to have another operation for cancer — of the lymph glands — and still had trouble with my back .
23 I had had endless hospitality in Moscow , and it was only natural Surkov would want to celebrate .
24 ‘ I was definitely not in my best shape because I had had major surgery in May for an ovarian cyst .
25 I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life .
26 Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside .
27 If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in .
28 They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’
29 If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened .
30 ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder .
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