Example sentences of "had a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR had had a long-standing military relationship with Afghanistan but the scale of the Soviet military intervention in that country in the 1980s and the forms it took were quite unprecedented in Soviet-Third World relations . |
| 2 | In certain states of the United States , legislation has been introduced to extend the ambit of the marital rape exemption to cover , in some cases , men cohabiting with women , men who have had a previous sexual relationship with a woman , and even , in West Virginia , men who have been the ‘ voluntary social companions ’ of women , although their relationship has previously been non-sexual . |
| 3 | Before the end of the day , he had had a short sharp interview with Chief Inspector Chips Salter , who produced the names of the two families he suspected of killing the Pitts , with his reasons for this suspicion , while at the same time letting John Coffin know he thought he was wasting his time looking elsewhere . |
| 4 | Flowers stated that she had had a sporadic sexual relationship with Clinton between 1977 and 1989 , and she had provided the newspaper with a number of taped telephone conversations between herself and Clinton from 1990 to 1992 which appeared to endorse aspects of her claim . |
| 5 | Despite all that those and others have contributed to Scottish rugby , the exiles have had a tempered love-hate relationship with us back home . |