Example sentences of "have had a spell " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But would it have been different if Mrs Thatcher had had a spell on income support ? or if she had ever lugged a buggy , baby , toddler and bags of shopping on and off her infrequent , deregulated buses ? |
| 5 | After he had had a spell at Southern League Bedford Town , Palace awarded Roy a Benefit match on 15 March 1961 in token of his services to our club . |
| 6 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 7 | because he 's had a spell or two at Stowmarket |