Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] had " in BNC.

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31 ‘ I 've only just had one slug of that .
32 No not yet , I 've only just had my tea !
33 Oh Geoff , you 've only just had your tea !
34 cos I 've only just had my tea
35 We 've only just had it !
36 I 've only ever had one job .
37 We 've only ever had that one .
38 He had only ever had one bit of trouble with him personally , but he remembered it well , He had caught Nigger , then fourteen years old , putting a sleeper across the rails , just to see what would happen to the train .
39 She had only ever had one man before in her life .
40 She had only ever had a vague impression of Frank Shildon and was interested in how far that was at variance with what she was discovering .
41 Could his son , John , who had so far had no success against the English in the south-west of France , do any better ?
42 Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture .
43 Ianthe was glad when the woman and her child got out at the next station , for not only did she find the conversation embarrassing but she also wanted to think about the moments before her unexpected meeting with Agnes Dalby — moments which she had so far had no chance of reliving or considering .
44 He was a Southerner and a devout Catholic , like Moro himself , and I think he felt guilty for not having made more of the best chance anyone had so far had to rescue his hero .
45 By the 1960s the Regal had long since had its day .
46 Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it .
47 ‘ I 've just about had you — in spades !
48 I said I 've liked I 've liked most songs he 's put out I 've just never had an al bought an album or anything .
49 Well why do you want one , you 've just bloody had one
50 Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise .
51 I 've always really had to depend on having someone else for the intricate stuff so that I can keep things fairly simple for myself .
52 It seemed that as mothers had usually hitherto had primary responsibility for child care , they were less likely than single fathers to neglect this function when trying to combine it with the role of breadwinner ( Harris et al. , 1986 ) .
53 Well , we 've also already had a report to the magazine .
54 Many women who moved into occasional prostitution through economic necessity had probably already had previous sexual experience , and for many the distinction between occasional sex with a young wooer and clandestine prostitution may have remained fluid .
55 They had probably never had his good looks , either .
56 Andrew Richens was 17 when he stabbed William Choi , who he claimed had boasted of having sex with his girlfriend and had taunted him by saying she had probably never had a real man before .
57 It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby .
58 ‘ Come to think of it , they 've probably never had nurseries .
59 You probably do n't have it you 've probably never had it .
60 Fenella remembered the houses on Renascia and how they had nearly always had sculleries and washing houses jutting out from the main rooms .
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