Example sentences of "[pron] have have [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Everyone has had some disappointment or failure .
2 I 'd had that years , it really bugged me .
3 Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew .
4 I had no intention of taking the Transit up West — I 'd had enough trouble round the launderette , which doubles as a common room for the junior branch of the Hackney National Front — so I left it parked outside the front door in exactly the spot where Frank and Salome usually plug in the nightlight for their VW Golf .
5 But we had to go and take it into his culler I had one day at that , I thought I thought I 'd had enough coal .
6 I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up …
7 I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why .
8 If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face .
9 Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything .
10 ‘ If I 'd had any sense at all I would have signed them up for ten years or fifteen per cent … ! ’
11 That was the first time I 'd had any money out of gigging in a year .
12 Frankly , if I 'd had any forewarning of this then I 'd have made certain that our paths would never cross again ! ’
13 And if I 'd had any problems , he sorted them out .
14 It rang again almost immediately — Alan again , asking if I 'd had any luck .
15 If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’
16 When I went to bed , I had a few ‘ sort of ’ pains , but I did n't think anything of them as I 'd had these kind of niggly pains a lot over the last week or so .
17 ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish .
18 If only I 'd had more time .
19 I just wish I 'd had more respect for my body when I was younger .
20 I had to have that fish .
21 You know , in that horrible time when I first knew I had to have this operation .
22 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
23 ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see .
24 My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out .
25 I had to have another look .
26 Four months later , I had to have another operation for cancer — of the lymph glands — and still had trouble with my back .
27 I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life .
28 I had had many tests .
29 If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in .
30 They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’
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