Example sentences of "[pers pn] have had [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 | I had had endless hospitality in Moscow , and it was only natural Surkov would want to celebrate . |
| 18 | ‘ I was definitely not in my best shape because I had had major surgery in May for an ovarian cyst . |
| 19 | I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life . |
| 20 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 25 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
| 26 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 27 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 28 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |
| 29 | I 've had various health problems , especially extreme tiredness , and there are days when I want to do nothing except cry and cry . |
| 30 | Not that I 've had much chance to do anything for him . |