Example sentences of "[pers pn] has had [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes .
2 And one of them has had a day off .
3 Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’
4 Determined to change the conversation , she opened her mouth to make a remark about the surrounding countryside , but he said suddenly , ‘ It 's too much to hope that a beautiful girl like you has had no experience .
5 Is she aware that the Feltham visitors ' report , which I am sure she has had a chance to read , said that there were only 24 workshop training places for 256 young people ?
6 Can not be , because she has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well and living in Wapping .
7 She has had a hit song with Roberta Flack and worked on material for , among others , Marvin Hamlisch and Spencer Jones .
8 I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ .
9 She has had a crisis of faith since her old man was put in the bin , and , a month or so ago , she took all her C. S. Lewis books out into the garden and burnt them .
10 At the moment his daughter has no kidneys ; she has had a transplant but unfortunately her body rejected the kidney .
11 She has had a tray sent up to her and is now asleep .
12 Mrs Thatcher has been fortunate in that retirements of several senior personnel in the early 1980s gave her the opportunity to influence promotions ; there were thirteen appointments as Permanent Secretary in 1982 alone and she has had a hand in appointing the great majority of Permanent and Assistant Permanent Secretaries since 1979 .
13 She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain .
14 She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain .
15 Mrs Bason has issued all the tickets from her station during the past 25 years , during which time she has had no assistance whatever .
16 The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected .
17 She says she has had the chimney swept , but the problem persists .
18 She has had an operation on her punctured lung .
19 Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job .
20 Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent .
21 Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute .
22 His final point about trust is fair enough , it sounds like he has had a gutful of Leeds fans berating him for sticking to his guns .
23 Rusty Conway becomes one of Serena 's patients because he has had a spell of extreme absent-mindedness which made him incapable of carrying out his work .
24 He is over 55 , married , without education or job training ; furthermore , he has had a spell of registered unemployment , did not work full-time in the 12 months prior to becoming unemployed and lives in a council house .
25 He has had a spell in politics as Fianna Fail councillor in the 1970s , and broadened his horizons working in Canada in the 1960s after qualifying from Dublin College of Catering .
26 At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio .
27 Time after time he has had a tournament in his pocket only for a miracle shot from a rival to steal it away .
28 He has had a hand in most of the major developments on site , but says B205 — Magnox reprocessing — has brought him most satisfaction .
29 Like you say , I do n't think he can be too good at , if he tried , he has had a lot of injuries apparently .
30 He has had a knee injury Record man SWIMMING : Australian Keiren Perkins broke his own world 800 metres freestyle record by 1.25 secs at the New South Wales swimming championships , finishing in 7 mins 46.6 secs .
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