Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I tell you Minnie , for all the independence , I had rather have my old job back and be in service with Mrs Browning . |
| 2 | ‘ I had rather have the certainties of middle-age , ma'am . ’ |
| 3 | John Poole 's temper can not have been improved when he announced the news of Robespierre 's execution , reported in that day 's Western Flying Post , and prompted from Southey the Histrionic cry , ‘ I had rather have heard the death of my own father . ’ |
| 4 | I had rarely had reason to enter my father 's room prior to this occasion and I was newly struck by the smallness and starkness of it . |
| 5 | I had also had a very enjoyable weekend in Sheffield when the Salvation Army invited me to make an appearance . |
| 6 | It was a reasonably clear evening and since I had already had a couple of glasses of champagne I decided to cycle over to Sally 's flat in Fulham . |
| 7 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 8 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 9 | But I had meanwhile had time to think . |
| 10 | Back in the world , I had barely had a nodding acquaintance with the girl . |
| 11 | It was nice to be with others ; I had just had three weeks on my tod with company only in Reykjavik campsite . |
| 12 | I wanted to know why she thought I would be the least bit interested in all that drivel I had just had to sit through . |
| 13 | I was emotionally prepared because I had just had what seemed to me then an incredibly traumatic experience . |
| 14 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 15 | I had never had to do love scenes and neither had Kylie . |
| 16 | I had never had such elevation before . |
| 17 | Pop and I had never had much to do with a soldiers ' club-except for that brief time in Maymyo , which was more of a hospital than a club , but now we had to feed and house soldiers on leave , poor men who were tired and bored and away from their families . |
| 18 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 19 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 20 | I had never had to argue that as a woman I should have an education , become a theologian , own a house , or anything else . |
| 21 | I had never had been playing with other children . |
| 22 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
| 23 | I had always had someone to go round with , while in Europe , or in America ; and good company , any company , can make an enormous difference to one 's perception of whatever one happens to be perceiving . |
| 24 | I had always had the sense of a ‘ presence ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I had always had private clients in my spare time and they were gathering momentum , ’ she says . |
| 26 | I had always had difficulty with the idea of a long-bearded god sitting on a throne on high , but because it came in the form it did , as an energy , I had no difficulty with it … |
| 27 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 28 | ‘ By the time the squad returned from Norway I had only had two days training all pre-season . |
| 29 | And then I missed my chance and then I had only had the little primary school in until I was fourteen . |
| 30 | I had once had to witness Otto tackling a bundle in Paris and it left a lasting impression : of an elephant stripping bark . |