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

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1 I have also had to tell others they are unlikely to get in and then try to explain the politics of the department to them and watch their dismay when they realize that , perhaps regardless of merit , they do not fit in .
2 Lake said : ‘ I was performing well and I am really disappointed as I have also had to withdraw from the doubles .
3 I have also had all internal cavities sprayed professionally with nickel screening paint from Maplin , but that does n't seem to have made any odds .
4 I have also had it explained to me by other feminists campaigning for equality of treatment of wives under social security laws , that their concern was only with the wives of claimants , not of company directors — thus accepting the DHSS principle that wives should be means tested on their husbands ' resources , regardless of the extent of their access to them .
5 Like Ms Lewis , unfortunately I have also had one of my glassfish infected with whitespot .
6 I have also had a chat with my friends Holly Harries from the Dyfed Wildlife Trust and Dr Stephanie Tyler from the Welsh Office of RSPB .
7 I have also had three two-hour sessions at the job agency which has the training facility , and , having taken down some scribbled notes and typed them up have gone back over it all to improve my notes , so that I can continue re-reading them till I improve my knowledge .
8 I have also had a short conversation with her in court using the medium of her cannon communicator and its ticker tape .
9 I have also had passed to me a petition from Mr containing four thousand five hundred signatures from the national anti-hunt petition er , there is a doubt of the petition or a letter from the tenant farmers but er , there is representation from them .
10 In an indication that Britons would be paying more in indirect taxes in the medium term , but the the blow had been deferred until future years , the Chancellor said : ‘ These reviews will inevitably take time , so I have also had to look to the revenue side of the account .
11 So I have to say that though I at this moment very close to this in the smallest county of England I have also had experience in three other major counties in mainland England er and I have found the same experience the difficulty of finding people who will even be councillors or magistrates , let alone these other jobs that the er that the er Home Secretary seeks to find .
12 This morning you were playing French cricket with my tennis racquet which I have just had restrung . ’
13 I have just had Greek before tea ; It is horrid .
14 At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in .
15 I HAVE JUST celebrated , or , rather , I have just had drawn to my attention , the occasion of my 64th birthday .
16 Usually I can only suggest possible methods of locating a partner for a large cichlid — unless I have just had a similar query from someone else , in which case I will happily operate a marriage bureau as long as both fishkeepers are agreeable .
17 I have just had part of me amputated .
18 I am extremely sorry , but I have just had a most trying time . ’
19 I have just had an exchange with the Secretary of State for Wales across the Floor of the House .
20 ‘ What you and I have just had … what we have just experienced … well , I can tell you that it is something very special indeed .
21 I HAVE just had the Ford Mondeo for a full week 's test and the longer the week went on the more I liked the car .
22 I have already had several occasions to remark that binary oppositions are , in Derrida 's phrase , violent hierarchies .
23 I have already had countless phone calls and letters from Rugby World & Post readers asking about the law of repeated infringement and if it could apply to a team as well as an individual player .
24 I have already had preliminary meetings with — Senior Consultant with HCTB , which is also the Lead Industry Body for the hospitality industry , and — consultant for HCIMA .
25 Draft a letter to my council , Nicholas , notifying them that I have already had the news of the action at Pilleth , and asking them to send out orders for the knights and squires of all the midland counties to meet me at Lichfield , fully prepared , mounted and arrayed for war , by the seventh day of July .
26 I have already had queries about what will happen .
27 ‘ I can not believe it , I have already had so many job offers as a result of taking part in .
28 Indeed I piled up on my home bookshelf many more volumes than appear here and which I have regretfully had to omit .
29 As it was your generous gift of the physic Garden to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries that encouraged the supporting of that Garden for the improvement of Botany and so consequently was the Occasion of my being employed in a service so agreeable to my natural inclinations , so the favourable opinion you have had of my abilities , when you was pleased to recommend me to that worshipful Company , with the several instances I have since had of your generous inclinations to encourage the Art and me , will ever lay me under the greatest obligations to endeavour to answer that character you was please to give of me and herein humbly hoping to approve myself what I most desire to be thought of …
30 And although I have since had my own shows in West End galleries in London , the excitement of being part of the Summer Exhibition has never worn thin .
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