Example sentences of "[adv] had have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He still had to have a medical .
2 Jo always had had the gift of the gab , she could make a stone laugh doing her imitation of Mr Silver trying to get her up behind the cloakroom door .
3 And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic .
4 ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’
5 I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off .
6 Because she was not moving at all , she developed a weeping wound in her leg one day , and the circulation collapsed to the extent that she nearly had to have the leg amputated .
7 While Connors became a protege of Segura 's at sixteen years old , Jimmy also had had the benefit of coming from a strong tennis family .
8 Sealants Adhesives and Coatings also had to have the paint , originally designed for use on military truck exteriors , adjusted to provide a satisfactory finish on the composite while still meeting the MoD 's demanding DEF-STAN 80–41 criterion .
9 The old African prohibition of multiplying sites of popular devotion to legions of homemade martyrs was turned inside out : every altar now had to have a martyr 's relic beneath it .
10 ‘ I simply had to have a break .
11 I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 .
12 I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ .
13 I then had to have a hysterectomy .
14 She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress .
15 A man called Slade made a statement that he had seen Cooper twice in London on the day of the murder , indeed had had a cup of tea with him in a café .
16 Mozart was anxious to receive another commission to write an opera ; he knew that there was a possibility that he might be asked to write one of the operas for the Naples carnival season , but as yet had had no confirmation .
17 He was making couples , choosing partners , arranging meetings in a café where they could all talk , all those men who never had had the chance to meet .
18 This woman was 37 years old , and she too had had a lumpectomy and radiotherapy four years earlier .
19 She too had had a call this day , and finally had told Mr Blaney in the shop that she was going , that she was unwell , could not go on .
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