Example sentences of "[vb infin] had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could 've had the Queen Mum to tea there and not been ashamed . |
| 2 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 3 | You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ? |
| 4 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 5 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 6 | Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished . |
| 7 | However , if the pilot is thinking ahead , that option could have already been considered and he could have had the plan ready for use if more height was lost . |
| 8 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 9 | His four wonderful , but ultimately futile , goals against Partizan Belgrade must have had the World Cup alarm bells ringing in England . |
| 10 | No archbishop but Fisher would have had the administrative ability or the tenacity to achieve the end . |
| 11 | They had found the answer to the American conundrum , and they assured themselves that no other people on earth would have had the qualities necessary to do so . |
| 12 | They were willing to accept a cut in transitional benefit which would have had the effect of ‘ throwing at least some of those receiving transitional benefit upon public assistance ’ , while Henderson pressed hard for a ‘ premium ’ , a flat deduction of 1s. a week from all unemployment benefits . |
| 13 | At one time she might have wanted to sit among the crowd , to escape from the prying eyes , but she would never have had the confidence to say so . |
| 14 | Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’ |
| 15 | If Shostakovich was writing now , he would n't have had the same material . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd have thought one of them would have had the balls , ’ said one wet who voted for Mrs Thatcher on the grounds that no serious candidate had come forward . |
| 17 | A pair of young fighters who come into the ring and fight a contest of this kind would have had the referee boxing their ears and offering such terse words as ‘ get in there and fight ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Without man-made snow we would not have had the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics . |
| 19 | Who the rise was due to I do n't know except that I think David probably would n't have had the idea to have opened such wonderful offices and created such a great mystique about it which MainMan had . |
| 20 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 21 | While no doubt Paul was thinking of the uncomplicated Christian message compared with the sophisticated philosophies of his day , and of the simple slaves and ordinary people who were joining the Christian family , he might have had the Lord 's background in mind as well . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , you 'd have had the lot pilfered if I had n't been guarding them and suffered the most ghastly discomfort in the process . |
| 23 | Psalm 48.12–13 bears witness to a similar procession round the walls of Jerusalem , though in the case of Jericho it would have had the particular significance of a celebration of God 's gift of the Land and conquest achieved with his might . |
| 24 | Recently you may have had the misfortune to sit through John Hughes ' latest slice of suburban comedy , Uncle Buck . |
| 25 | If there is little sign of this on your trees you may well have had the luck to inherit or wisdom to plant one of the less scab-prone varieties , of which there are a surprising number . |
| 26 | Hearing a slight sound , a scraping noise through the wall , Alida , though she ignored it , stiffened her corseted thighs , Aunt Fosters , her mother 's last surviving sister , might have had the wit and grace to die in time but it was not a family trait . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're not saying he could n't have had the irritation , the nerve , the strength to strangle her ? ’ |
| 28 | Dunwoody 's day started badly with a fall on Gambling Royal and , setting out on Remittance Man for the Mumm Melling Chase , he must have had the fences more than usually in mind . |
| 29 | In the near-famine of 1795 , champions of the market economy would have had the poor starve and let mobs of hungry peasants loose on the countryside . |
| 30 | So much torrential rain fell overnight and throughout the day of the finals that the organisers decided to dispense with scrums and let the team who would have had the scrum take a free-kick instead . |