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

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1 The affluent clients of the smartest shops of Hong Kong , Paris , New York , London or Tokyo respond to the same qualities in ivory as those which attracted Palaeolithic mammoth hunters up to thirty thousand years ago and have continued to beguile all who have since had access to the material .
2 For example in Germany , works councils have long had access to resources to investigate design of work systems under the Quality of Working Life .
3 I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late .
4 This kind of ability is both envied and disparaged by many Continental musicians , and it can not be doubted that professional English singers often perform music which they have not had time to ‘ learn ’ in any sense of the term that a European singer would accept .
5 In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson 2 ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish .
6 In 1986 , however , only 31% of all newly qualified Ph D graduates took up university employment ( Anderson ) , and the boom period for academic jobs was around 1965 , when 53% of all such researchers found employment in universities , so that it may be that the majority of successful Ph D researchers over the period have not had access to those facilities which would have helped them to publish .
7 ‘ I have just had part of me amputated .
8 I have just had Greek before tea ; It is horrid .
9 I have always had difficulty with tank backdrops .
10 Although they have always had responsibility for trainees , this is to be made more formal within the framework of the basic training common core .
11 Muriel Dunbar , Head of Quality Assurance said , ‘ we have always had confidence in our external verifiers .
12 Since then I have always had trouble with films that were supposed to teach me something , or from which I hoped to learn .
13 They have always had the technology , They have always had control over what goes out , what messages were received by the public without their conscious awareness .
14 They have always had the technology , They have always had control over what goes out , what messages were received by the public without their conscious awareness .
15 So I have to say that though I at this moment very close to this in the smallest county of England I have also had experience in three other major counties in mainland England er and I have found the same experience the difficulty of finding people who will even be councillors or magistrates , let alone these other jobs that the er that the er Home Secretary seeks to find .
16 We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge .
17 Further education is a service delivered at local level by education authorities and colleges , who have often had room for independent action but little commitment to a coherent policy .
18 So you have n't had sight of this before today ?
19 No point thinking of hilarious moments from life 's rich tapestry of jokes , Morecambe- , Groucho- , Woody-style : ‘ You mean you have n't had sex for two hundred years ?
20 I have n't had sex with him since the beginning of our marriage .
21 ‘ We have n't had rabbit for a while .
22 We have n't had lamb for years now .
23 I do n't mind saveloy , I have n't had saveloy for a long while .
24 We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks .
25 no , no we have n't had much , no , no we have n't had trouble with the Hitachi , just the machine itself actually
26 ‘ You have n't had dinner with Mr Jaggers yet ? ’
27 I 'm in the dark here obviously because I have n't I have n't had access to this particular case .
28 For those tha who are not to familiar with , the initials P P G , it stands for planning policy guidance , and there are a whole series of these guidance notes produced by the Department of the Environment for the er advice guidance of , well not only the local planning authorities but anyone else who is interested in the development business , and they are expressions of , I suppose government policy , er and their attitudes towards various aspects , whether it 's countryside , housing , trans or transport , and they do pro provide a useful backcloth , in fact an extremely valuable backcloth to the way in which er this matter should be considered , erm I know from the submission which North Yorkshire County Council have used they would say that the fact they have n't had regard to all this er , but I would like to carry on the discussion against that background , and could you direct your thinking at this stage about the need for a new settlement in the light of the principles spelt out in P P G three and particularly paragraph thirty three .
29 Your first efforts at hearing , transcribing and producing the sounds of a new language are bound to be subjective an biased according to the languages you have previously had experience with .
30 I have never had mastery like this before . ’
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