Example sentences of "[conj] i have have [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have two American Standard Strats that I 've had for about four years , one with Lace Sensors , the other with DiMarzios . |
| 2 | The friends that I 've had for over 20 years are ones I can rely on and who do n't ‘ take ’ all the time . |
| 3 | All the replies got eleven or so replies that I 've had for that questionnaire . |
| 4 | well this case I 'm afraid does n't lend itself to short entirely impossible , er Mr maybe have to say erm will lead to the questions and then for example spent er a long time on questions this afternoon that I 've had for you Mr |
| 5 | That 's , that 's true , eh , I mean the alloy in the other ones have to be quite crafty when you get up to twenty two carat for example and eh , very eh , eh , large chunk of gold in it , and it can indeed be very soft , but then you see that 's an eighteen carat ring that I 've had for , worn , all the time for twenty four years |
| 6 | and er , it helps me to , it 's only a hobby , you know , but er , it 's one that I 've had for donkey years , I want to er keep going with it as long as I can |
| 7 | Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only . |
| 8 | But the number of people that I 've had in erm both customers and visitors like yourselves , that have been so impressed by the standards of housekeeping and cleanliness and tidiness , for an engineering facility . |
| 9 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 10 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 11 | Such discussions with the Home Office that I have had on the question have made it clear that when their guidelines to the police are finally formulated the limited use of investigative hypnosis will be exclusively in the hands of trained and independent professionals such as clinical psychologists . |
| 12 | The most valuable of the representations that I have had on manufacturing industry is the excellent report from the manufacturing advisory group of the CBI , which hails the resurgence in manufacturing that began in the 1980s and calls on us to continue and to build on the policies that brought that about . |
| 13 | Conservative Members would be well advised to heed those words because all the contact that I have had with local government — I am not talking about Labour councillors , but about impartial experts — has shown that those experts believe that the council tax will eventually run into such trouble that it will become unworkable . |
| 14 | From the discussions that I have had with those groups and from some statements that I have received — I do not want to go into detail because they were confidential — I am confident that a solution could have been found which would have formed a reasoned consensus for those groups , for the interests that they represent and for the House . |
| 15 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) has not had the advantage that I have had of studying these applications with very great care , and it is quite clear that he has not addressed the issue in any great substance . |
| 16 | Ronnie 's news , I found , had given me a good deal more confidence in Fringe than I had had on Drifter , illogical though it might be . |
| 17 | I 've er this , the the er hoe-down , I 've been advertising since before Christmas er and er although we did n't inform the members till about three weeks ago something like that er I 've been telling everybody about it and I 've had more response from non-members than I 've had from members for it . |
| 18 | I speak English , French and Spanish but not the others mentioned , so I have had to be very open to inferring sociolinguistic information and to being wary of my own assumptions . |
| 19 | And I 've had at least three real girlfriends , so there must be more to me than bad skin , frizzy hair and a slouch . |
| 20 | At this , and most of the many other meetings that he and I have had with African leaders , progress towards democracy and good governance has been discussed . |
| 21 | One of the battles my friends and I have had since coming to Rhodesia has been to stay out of the little box into which some people would like to pop us . |
| 22 | I saw , and I have had in actual fact , recourse to actually use that service over there , and it 's rather interesting if one can t to say that er in the particular village which I er represent , they actually came up , when I asked a certain question , they gave me a , a , far more than what I actually asked for at the time , but found out who the first village constable was , and I think myself that er , that service over there , it deserves every praise it gets heaped on it . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd have stayed out there four hours if I 'd had to . |
| 24 | ‘ To tell you the truth , I do n't know , but I 'd like to think that I could have pulled the trigger if I 'd had to . |
| 25 | ‘ But I have had by far the better of the deal because the consultancy advice I have had from her has outweighed that ten times over . |
| 26 | But since I 've had to , and since the old place is so empty , how about it ? |