Example sentences of "have had all [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 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 .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 he was like being shy but he 'd had all the side of his fur like shaved , and I thought urgh !
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The Prince had had all the men up on deck scanning the river with the aid of oil lamps .
11 She had had all the locks changed .
12 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 .
13 Instead of the brilliant sunshine we had had all the week before it had started raining throughout the night and was still falling steadily .
14 ‘ I 've had all the education I need , thanks .
15 I think I 've had all the mango ones .
16 She phoned me a couple of days ago and said , you know , that life was really quite on top of them her mother-in-law died and they 've had all the problems of putting the old man into a home the main problem
17 I mean I may have been being a bit naive as a general sort of , just a rep within NALGO , I 'm not I 'm not , although I 've had all the publicity , and yes I 'm , sometimes you do not the course .
18 And you 've had all the time in the world it takes to dial seven digits .
19 ‘ You 've had all the time I can give , ’ he said tightly .
20 I 've had all the opportunities I would want .
21 You see , this , where we young we 've had all the youth organisations which most of us belong to , that 's all we had in those days .
22 went before — for I found her here — and I have had all the plague possible to persuade her to go back again but at last she went .
23 But he 's , he 's had all the answers , has n't he , he 's
24 Who , who 's had all the nails out of them ?
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