Example sentences of "[vb infin] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She might 've had two lots of make-up , and you do n't know how many nighties she 's got . ’ |
| 2 | What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out . |
| 3 | Measured by the middle group 's criteria they would 've had three then would they ? |
| 4 | you know , can you think of one you might 've had last night or one that you particularly remember or something like that |
| 5 | People were still walking up the drive , and one or two were beginning to walk back down it : they must 've had enough of visiting for today , like me . |
| 6 | I 'm , I 'm going to have to cut you off , cos we 're running out of time , but I very much take the point you 're making , that it could 've had this trade effect on us , just in the last ten seconds Professor Hoskin , is it possible to predict what 's going to happen in the Soviet Union over the next six months , is it gon na be for good , or , or , . |
| 7 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 8 | You see we 've had some very good reports , I mean that went through a very bad patch but they 've this new Doctor Colin he 's meant to be pretty switched on |
| 9 | you might 've had some timetables like they have on the train |
| 10 | Responses to a questionnaire sent to NHS authorities in March 1988 had shown that only 8 per cent of employers requires nurses and health visitors to undertake re-entry programmes before employment , even though individuals might have had substantial breaks in service . |
| 11 | For all I know , Léon Cohn-Casson might have had substantial reasons for believing in his invulnerability . |
| 12 | It must have had substantial embankments leading to it , for the nearby ground level is that of the line . |
| 13 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 14 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 15 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 16 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 17 | One or more of these stages may have had greater impact in some countries than others , creating separate democratic inheritances onto which the extension of the franchise was superimposed . |
| 18 | They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal . |
| 19 | So the smaller children in the crowd must have had awful problems . |
| 20 | A HARLEY Street doctor jailed for seven years for a series of sex attacks on women visiting his surgery may have had 100 victims . |
| 21 | Executions are easily exaggerated , but the Encomiast 's statement that many English leaders were killed with Eadric , and that of the later Evesham chronicle that many of his soldiers died too , are quite plausible , given that he would have had powerful henchmen whom it was doubtless politic to eliminate . |
| 22 | It seems clear , however , that Chatterton need n't have had prodigious talent for the talent expended in the novel to take effect . |
| 23 | The patient should have had central chest pain in the classic distribution for at least 15 minutes . |
| 24 | And she must have had five pees or six . |
| 25 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 26 | All this business last night was an obvious waste of time ; it probably was n't even her and if it was , she could have had five different rides before daylight . |
| 27 | The ship-borne army will have had five hours of marching and fighting . |
| 28 | ‘ On another day we might have had four or five tries in the second half , but it just was n't to be , ’ said London coach Tony Jorden . |
| 29 | Gooch reached his half-century by pushing Waqar off his hip for four , and might have had four more had not the ball bobbled off the wretched Cornhill advertisement mat at straight-hit . |
| 30 | Hiding her feelings quickly , she said , ‘ I would have had four more years of your love than I can ever have now . ’ |