Example sentences of "have had a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 'd had a couple just stay on the lip and we were getting desperate . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It would be as much as Dad could do to keep himself in order after he 'd had a drop too much . |
| 6 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 7 | They 'd had a match though did n't it ? |
| 8 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 9 | No they must have had a cylinder there already . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We could have had a shower together . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Crewe might have had a couple more . |
| 14 | She must have had a life apart from what we know about and she 's living it , ’ she concluded , lamely . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Good auditors have used the right when they would otherwise have had a duty anyway … |
| 17 | It gives them greater job mobility but also a large number of people aged in their 20s who would not have had a pension now have them . |
| 18 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 19 | Just think , colleagues , what we could have done with forty two million pounds , we could have had a conference twice a year not the biannual conference they 're on about . |
| 20 | They would have liked to have had a baby together , but she lost triplets , was very ill , and it seemed a family was not to be . |
| 21 | The eruption of the volcano buried a town , Akrotiri , which is thought to have had a population originally of about 30,000 . |
| 22 | And the stream … it had had a name once , but she could n't remember it . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was perfectly true ; she had had a friend once who 'd changed personality at the drop of a hat as soon as she had conceived . |
| 25 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
| 26 | If he had not known she had had a baby only a month before he would have wanted to make love to her , she was . |
| 27 | Hang on I 've had a I 've had a fitter there . |
| 28 | Well we 've had a go well I think it was for erm some sort of I think was for multiple sclerosis |
| 29 | Oh yeah , you 've had a fortnight today wo n't you ? |
| 30 | Yeah you 've had a look upstairs ? |