Example sentences of "have had [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Also , it has been admitted by at least one officer in military intelligence that government undercover has had practically no success in penetrating them with agents .
2 But at the same time the leadership of the organised working class has had neither the imagination nor the capacity to attempt to force a radical restructuring of the national economy on working class terms .
3 That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages .
4 ‘ It is quite true that he had the pharmacist 's poodle bitch twice in fifteen minutes on the steps of the Convent of St Mary , but he has had almost every bitch in Porto Venus over the past three years .
5 As expected , having had both a spell of registered unemployment in the last 12 months and also no full time job in the last 12 months contributes adversely to the individual 's chances of obtaining an offer .
6 At least in theory ; I must confess to being peculiarly hopeless at this style of climbing and having had quite a struggle on this route in the past , which in no way detracts from its quality .
7 It seems unlikely , especially in the light of the papal prohibition , that monks would have had either the inclination or the experience to have practised mos teutonicus , and it has been suggested that butchers were called in to perform the grisly deeds .
8 Had that policy prevailed , I doubt whether we would have had even the INF treaty .
9 ‘ You must have had quite a talk ! ’ smiled Belinda .
10 Also , he may have had quite a job finding it . "
11 Although the cut across my stomach might not have had quite the artistry of Michelangelo , it had been well sewn and healed well .
12 He seems to have had both a scientist 's and artist 's understanding of light .
13 He seems to have had both a scientist 's and an artist 's understanding of light .
14 He had had barely a glimpse of what the Ping Tiao hierarchy were up to for almost a week now .
15 Although by 1086 the Barton estate had been split up into a number of manors , of which only one was still in the hands of the king himself , there can be little doubt that before the Conquest the Anglo-Saxon kings had had here an estate of some seven thousand acres which they kept in hand for their own supplies .
16 Until then she had had absolutely no recollection of anything which had taken place in the operating theatre .
17 The season began in January in Brazil and prior to that he had had only a couple of rainy test-sessions at Silverstone .
18 Poor old Yallop , Spruce thought , had had quite a day of it after twenty-five entirely uneventful — and promotionless — years in the force .
19 I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple .
20 Mr. Barlow and Ena had had quite a giggle about those .
21 Mostly , crises arise when a guest pulls out at the last minute and we 're urgently looking for a replacement — sometimes we 've had just a matter of hours .
22 You see , I 've had rather a lot on my mind recently … ’
23 ‘ It 's an amazing opportunity to break in to theatre , but we 've had virtually no response from Jobcentres , ’ a spokeswoman says .
24 We 've had virtually no rain in the last five weeks which is why we 've got water problems in many parts of the country , but it 's not just us that 's suffering you 'll be glad to know .
25 We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half .
26 As social work you 've had quite a contact erm with people on the flats , erm living in the situation they actually most people in the flats .
27 I 've always thought very highly of Michael Jaffé , until recently Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , and I 've had quite a lot of pleasant conversations with him .
28 Well , we 've had quite a lot of money from Oxford from different people so you do n't know .
29 Baked potatoes , we 've had quite a lot of baked pot
30 Many parts of the continent have also got a drought ; in France , in southern Italy and Greece in particular but Spain , they 're not too bad actually they 've had quite a lot of thundery showers this summer .
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