Example sentences of "[pers pn] has had a [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 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 ?
5 Can not be , because she has had a message from a clairvoyant that her son is alive and well and living in Wapping .
6 She has had a hit song with Roberta Flack and worked on material for , among others , Marvin Hamlisch and Spencer Jones .
7 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 ’ .
8 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 .
9 At the moment his daughter has no kidneys ; she has had a transplant but unfortunately her body rejected the kidney .
10 She has had a tray sent up to her and is now asleep .
11 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 .
12 She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain .
13 She has had a number of exhibitions in Canada and been published in Britain .
14 She has had an operation on her punctured lung .
15 Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio .
23 Time after time he has had a tournament in his pocket only for a miracle shot from a rival to steal it away .
24 He has had a hand in most of the major developments on site , but says B205 — Magnox reprocessing — has brought him most satisfaction .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour .
28 He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver .
29 Yeah , he has had a bonio , he likes a bonio , he did eat one last night ,
30 Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge .
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