Example sentences of "had [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd had a few notions about being a journalist , but I think that if I 'd had Latin I might have stayed on and tried for an academic career .
2 The idea has had opponents who claim its an easy option for people who would otherwise be behind bars .
3 But er because I 've had requests I 've approached them and said , Well we 'll get your documents released and see see if we can speed matters up because use your experience .
4 Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years
5 Mm Yeah we 've been found it really difficult finding a baby sitter really I 'm surprised ever since we 've had Lisa we 've been really bad uh uh actually having baby sitters and you know actually making the effort to go out really .
6 Once you have had toxoplasmosis you are immune for life and can not infect a baby .
7 I did n't lose her till she was over twenty but So but I think it was desperation because if I 'd had money I should 've had a house full of children because I loved them , you see , I 've always loved children .
8 Where 's he making it , he must have had money he did n't just buy those fields and make money and have a big house like that .
9 Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways .
10 Most experienced social workers and therapists have had clients who , confessedly or otherwise , have been sexually attracted towards and/or have fallen in love with them .
11 We 've had earthquakes which ca n't be helped .
12 They might of had tails you do n't know !
13 From the beginning heads of missions had had secretaries who often played an important role ; but these had been recruited and paid by the diplomats themselves and had been merely their personal servants .
14 Now I have to be careful what I say about Lady Thatcher 's because of the laws of libel and also I do n't know who 's written which pieces but it 's known she 's had help you see .
15 Belinda , who has had chemotherapy which made her blonde hair fall out , had just one thing on her mind yesterday — her present .
16 Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end .
17 INDIA has long had terrorists who kill and maim to secure secession for various of its 25 states .
18 I have had guests who have been speechless , monosyllabic , obtuse and recalcitrant , but more often because of nerves or discomfort than deliberately so .
19 Sam 's had more'n you .
20 ‘ I have had consultants who have done a full cowboy job and then charged me £25.000 . ’
21 Tony up there , he 's had meningitis you know , at risk he said .
22 All through the ages men have had names which recognised their prowess at arms or through some physical attribute .
23 But I have had patients who were so badly affected that they could not travel in any enclosed vehicle — car , bus or train — had to leave the bathroom door open while they bathed , could not enter a cinema , theatre or even a small local shop .
24 ‘ I have had patients who literally just laughed out loud and ended up cracking a rib .
25 We 've had people we had one chap an old mate of mine he give us fifty P well he 's on the dole there .
26 I mean I 've had people who ca n't get work because they look old , right .
27 What we did was we based our forecast , which I think Mr raised that point , we based our forecast on the admissions that we did at the Department of Social Security and I 'm glad to say that we have been significantly under that level and partly I think because er we 've had people who have genuinely diverted into home care and who 've been able to which is why we 've put the pressure on home care and on the occupational therapy services and partly because erm the , there were some inappropriate admissions I must say that .
28 If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available .
29 Oh we 've had frost we have n't any early morning sun anyway .
30 Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it
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