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

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1 And one of them has had a day off .
2 He might have better awareness etc , but I should bloody hope so at 30 … unless O'Leary has had a set back with his injury ? ? ? ?
3 We 'd had a couple just stay on the lip and we were getting desperate .
4 They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting .
5 They 'd had a skinful so were n't in a particularly noticing mood but they saw and heard nothing , nothing except what they described as a kind of mournful whistling coming from deep in the wood . ’
6 She 'd had a dream once in which she 'd ceased to be herself , and had to walk amidst crowds of jeering people , asking them who she was .
7 Her father would joke about him to her when he 'd had a drink over much : ‘ Ready-made son you 've got now then , daughter , is it ? ’ he 'd say .
8 The next morning , Ian woke her up with a cup of tea , said he was sorry about last night , he 'd had a bit too much to drink .
9 It would be as much as Dad could do to keep himself in order after he 'd had a drop too much .
10 She was bone-weary , but she would be all right , she assured herself , once she 'd had a sit down and something to eat .
11 " He 'd had a meal not long before he died — ordinary sort of light supper , I 'd imagine .
12 ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid .
13 Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in .
14 They 'd had a match though did n't it ?
15 It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock .
16 I wished I 'd had a poke round when we were up by the cliff — he probably had a little cave in there behind the brambles .
17 No they must have had a cylinder there already .
18 Not because I could n't have had a holiday only that er we had loads of milk so we had to go and fetch it from the farms and you got ta have somebody to take it out .
19 We could have had a shower together .
20 Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more .
21 Crewe might have had a couple more .
22 He said for the money we spent here you could have had a percentage off .
23 She must have had a life apart from what we know about and she 's living it , ’ she concluded , lamely .
24 Also , the late Graham Chapman might have had a tribute more fitting to his debunking spirit than a discussion in which the presenter appeared to say the words ‘ epiphany-oriented . ’
25 You know , they 'll have had a night out on the tiles .
26 As Strachan was clearly knackered at the end of it , I thought he could have had a run out for the last 10 mins or so .
27 I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year .
28 Well it must have had a split in or something .
29 He had learned from Desmond Morton that there was a plan afoot involving iron ore and the Swedish port of Oxelosund , which — had he not ‘ joined the wrong eleven ’ — he might have had a hand in .
30 Good auditors have used the right when they would otherwise have had a duty anyway
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