Example sentences of "have had [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the party with an honest policy and a swing to its campaign will be defeated by the party whose centrepiece is dishonest , and whose campaign has had all the swagger of a bedraggled old hen in a muddy farmyard . |
| 2 | It may be possible to delete this provision if the Purchaser can be satisfied that it has had all the Business 's contracts disclosed to it one way or another . |
| 3 | Anyone who has had such a ceiling sag under the strain will sympathise with this week 's debate in the Church of England synod . |
| 4 | Why Derrida has had such a vogue in America is indeed a puzzle , as Searle and others have acknowledged . |
| 5 | No strike since Franco has had such an impact . |
| 6 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 7 | ‘ And when you got back here , everyone could see that Walter was just a shell , just a husk you 'd had all the goodness out of . |
| 8 | he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh ! |
| 9 | I 'd had half a tab at prayers in the morning but it had worn off by now . |
| 10 | If we 'd had half the help from British Government for crumbling schools we 've had from Europe , we 'd have had a lot more done . |
| 11 | He told her ‘ I wrote it ; and rejoice in having had such an opportunity of minutely observing the propriety of your behaviour . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't remember an England player having had such an impact on a team , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic . |
| 14 | Why on earth would he have had such a thing ? |
| 15 | Rarely can a goalkeeper have had such an incentive to shut out a former club than Rovers ' Bobby Mimms has at Ewood Park this afternoon . |
| 16 | I do n't believe the programme has taken off here as rapidly as it possibly could have had all the judges been as enthusiastic as I was in the beginning , but I would say 5 to 10 per cent of the sentenced people now are at least given that option . |
| 17 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
| 18 | Certainly Mike had all the time in the world to launch a right hook , but Patsy also must have had all the time in the world to see it , for he simply swayed back on his heels and the punch missed by over a foot . |
| 19 | The US in the first half of the 1980s appears to have had such a mechanism whereas in the UK the real wages of employees did not respond flexibly to high unemployment by falling . |
| 20 | He had had all the advantages of what my father called ‘ a good family background ’ ; he spoke with an educated voice ; he had been raised to respect good manners . |
| 21 | The Prince had had all the men up on deck scanning the river with the aid of oil lamps . |
| 22 | She had had all the locks changed . |
| 23 | This branch of the family had had all the material success which their poor Frome cousins lacked , together with the necessary altruism to help out as best they could . |
| 24 | Instead of the brilliant sunshine we had had all the week before it had started raining throughout the night and was still falling steadily . |
| 25 | Steve had had many a brush with Gordon long before the matter of Ephraim 's boots in his sports bag . |
| 26 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 27 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've had such a lot of fun with her , ’ Pauline says with obvious affection . |
| 29 | ‘ Poor darling , you 've had such a time and I keep rabbiting on and on about it . |
| 30 | I 've had many a weep , I can tell you . ’ |