Example sentences of "have [adv] [adv] had a " in BNC.

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1 The Food , drink and tobacco manufacturing sector has once more had an excellent year .
2 Secondly , the suitably defiant-sounding Women Call the Shots series screened by Channel 4 in 1990 demonstrated that there is a whole world out there of women 's cinematic practices which has hardly yet had a look-in from the predominantly White and Western body of academic feminist criticism and theory .
3 Despite the tougher trading conditions I am pleased to report that Healthcare has yet again had a profitable year , and we are poised for further expansion of our business in the coming year .
4 This was one aspect of her following human emotions where they took her , into many depths and intensities , that has yet hardly had a place in a novel .
5 She thought you 'd probably never had a bathroom to yourself and that you 'd appreciate something a bit special . ’
6 ‘ I 'd never really had a guitar hero before then .
7 She had only ever had a vague impression of Frank Shildon and was interested in how far that was at variance with what she was discovering .
8 I said I 've liked I 've liked most songs he 's put out I 've just never had an al bought an album or anything .
9 Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise .
10 Well , we 've also already had a report to the magazine .
11 Andrew Richens was 17 when he stabbed William Choi , who he claimed had boasted of having sex with his girlfriend and had taunted him by saying she had probably never had a real man before .
12 It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby .
13 ‘ After her parents died about a year apart she suddenly got a survival instinct which knew no boundaries at all because she had no longer had a family , ’ said Amanda .
14 ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’
15 ‘ What functions ? ’ has been the response ; a spokesman for Camden , the borough with the largest number of Grade II listed buildings after Westminster , says , ‘ We 've never even had a conservation policy ? ’
16 Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ?
17 Her work and studies had been so all-consuming that she had never even had a boyfriend !
18 A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls .
19 He 's never even had a parish .
20 It might be different if she had children of her own — but she 's never even had a boyfriend I 've liked . ’
21 But the celebrations in the Diaspora and in the Yishuv have very often had a different spirit behind them .
22 Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new .
23 I du n no I I mean I have never actually had a written reference from anybody when I 've left
24 We have never really had an Inquisition , never really persecuted people for their beliefs .
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