Example sentences of "[vb infin] had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 2 | Let me try erm a straw poll on you and I 'm going to ask those of you , I 'll give you a moment or two , who would 've signed up the Maastricht Treaty and who would not have signed up the Maastricht Treaty if you 'd 've had a free vote ? |
| 3 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 4 | ‘ Watch it for Christ sake , ’ Billy bawled into the wind , ‘ ca n't you see I 've had a hard night . ’ |
| 5 | Beautiful piece , one of the earliest I 've seen — but he must 've had a hard head , ‘ coz it broke . |
| 6 | I 've always , I might 've had a little moan , but I 've always to myself |
| 7 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
| 8 | However , undoubtedly the night air would have had a sobering effect , especially as the walk was some 2¾ miles long . |
| 9 | These intra-uterine devices would have had a contraceptive effect and were relied on by some women for that purpose . |
| 10 | I hope you will not have had a fruitless journey , Mrs er — ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Cologne may have had a poor start to the season , but they are typically disciplined like all German sides and will play as they are told to play by their coach . |
| 12 | Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded . |
| 13 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 14 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 15 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 16 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 17 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 18 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 19 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 20 | I could not have had a better tutor in extra-mural teaching . |
| 21 | Jimmy could have had a better serve . |
| 22 | In your case you could n't have had a better officer , in my view , to handle that situation . |
| 23 | Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory . |
| 24 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 25 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 26 | Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole . |
| 27 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 28 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 29 | Brian Horton says they could not have had a better match . |
| 30 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |