Example sentences of "[prep] have had " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the lifetime of this Government the average family the hon. Gentleman talks about has had increases in disposable income of unprecedented levels , in excess of £50 per week , while the hon. Gentleman well knows that from 1974 to 1979 their standard of living bumped along without showing any significant increase . |
| 2 | After having had it ruin so much of their practice time , it seemed only fair that it should come to their aid when they needed it . |
| 3 | Basingstoke , top of Courage Four South , have been banned from all rugby for two weeks by Hampshire after having had five players sent off this season . |
| 4 | Lots of the slicker , more citified proles ' sons had this extremely short hair by '68 after having had long hair . |
| 5 | Enquiries led me to owner Tony Allen and the information that it awaited final paperwork after having had floats fitted . |
| 6 | There 's incidental impotence which occurs from time to time when a man fails to get an erection after having had too much to drink , for example ; or through tiredness , worry or anxiety . |
| 7 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 8 | ‘ Normally I 'd say no , especially after having had a gun pointed at them . |
| 9 | There seemed to be no reason why you should n't , and to decide not to , after having had the thought , seemed to indicate a lack of real caritas . |
| 10 | He took the first four out from the quay and dropped them off , after having had trouble starting the boat . |
| 11 | By 1952 almost all English education authorities had adopted an intelligence test in their selection process ; psychologists debated the effects of social agencies coaching and practice — on IQ scores ; but Hertfordshire gave up the eleven-plus exam altogether , after having had one for at least fifteen years . |
| 12 | Forest manager Brian Clough is poised to challenge Middlesbrough 's resolve to hold on to the former England Under-21 international after having had Ripley watched during an impressive promotion season . |
| 13 | ‘ He is still vertical , ’ Roxburgh observed after having had a significant portion of his squad put on horizontal hold . |
| 14 | As Engels puts it , despite having had a product for nearly two years , Cognos is still at the ‘ toe in the water ’ stage with the AS/400 market . |
| 15 | Compared with the 165 males , the 143 female patients had a significantly higher mean random haemoglobin A 1 value despite having had diabetes for fewer years ( females : mean 9.5 years ; males : mean 10.3 years ; p=0.36 ) . |
| 16 | And despite having had a good , healthy pregnancy , she had already started getting depressed : |
| 17 | After the November 1989 general election Shekhar was considered by some to be a candidate for the premiership , despite having had no experience of ministerial office . |
| 18 | The second point which I would make is that despite having had many months indeed years , to come to a view , erm it is only Selby District Council who have stepped forward and said , basically that they would be prepared to accommodate the new settlement . |
| 19 | You will quickly realise , however , that it is a fact of life that the Magpies and the Mackems , despite having had consistently poorer teams than us over the last decade , will always grab the headlines . |
| 20 | is well despite having had a forceps delivery & ‘ piles ’ ! ! |
| 21 | During the latter part of the night , in spite of having had no sleep , feelings of fatigue begin to diminish . |
| 22 | In spite of her apparent self-confidence , in spite of her twenty-five years , in spite of having had the best that money could buy since she was a little girl , there was an ingenuousness about Harriet which sprung from a yearning need to prove herself — to her father , to her contemporaries , to the whole wide world . |
| 23 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 24 | A few days later , from the bleak room of a grimy hotel , the rain pouring down outside the window , he surveyed his surroundings and wrote forlornly : ‘ Theo , I never suspected her , nor do I now , nor shall I ever suspect her of having had financial motives , more than is honest and just . |
| 25 | And the nonempiricist theories that they have meaning for us by virtue of our having encountered platonic forms in an earlier non-bodily life , or by virtue of having had ideas put into our mind-s by God , or by virtue of our having been born with them , can all be happily abandoned . |
| 26 | He was not conscious of having had any contact with a clergyman since school , where religion had been regarded as an unavoidable mixed dose of discipline , cissiness and mild buffoonery . |
| 27 | Having an idea of having had an idea is having an idea of two things . |
| 28 | In a recent study we found women with anal cancer to have a high risk of having had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia or invasive cervical cancer diagnosed previously . |
| 29 | In recovering from our torture we take solace from the knowledge that we share with H G Wells , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , W Somerset Maugham , James Joyce , and many other writers the experience of having had a rotten rejection . |
| 30 | If the notes of elderly patients alleged to have died from asthma are examined it seems that most of them had fixed airways obstruction , with little evidence of having had asthma , and that most died of something else . |