Example sentences of "'ve had " in BNC.

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1 Everyone else was lying around and I just thought : ‘ That 's it , I 've had enough ’ .
2 ‘ Ever since I resigned , I 've had to put up with this incessant , ‘ You 've got to be realistic , ’ from you .
3 I 've had just about enough of this .
4 I 've had enough of it ! ’
5 All this did , of course , cost money , but if you 've had even a comparatively small amount of that and then lost it , you do tend to realize how transient the whole thing is and not worry so much about getting it back again .
6 ‘ I 've had a fifty-pound note stolen . ’
7 I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’
8 This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless .
9 ‘ I 've had enough and I 'm going to try my luck in a country I can actually understand .
10 Because I 've had to spend a couple of nights in a porchway ? ’
11 I 've had another word with Personnel and they say that even though I ca n't have any more full-timers , I can have a part-timer to help me with making the sandwiches in the morning and clearing up last thing at night .
12 I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’
13 ‘ Yeah , I 've had some of it already .
14 ‘ You 've had some trouble up there , have n't you ? ’
15 There 's going to be new legislation soon which will make it dead easy for landlords to kick tenants out and I 've had enough of all this as it is . ’
16 I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom .
17 It must be strange to be the object of my affection , she thought idly , especially if all you 've had is hard-chested men doing their best but never sure .
18 You 've had ample time to get your feet under the table by now and one or two things have come up which I 'd like you to pursue .
19 ‘ I 'm a pretty tough sort of bloke — you have to be to run a pub , ’ John said , ‘ but I 've had tears in my eyes today . ’
20 After all , they 've had their say years ago and made a meal of it : undeclared top-roping , hold chipping , secret rests , etc .
21 If you 've had similar experiences , please write to Esther Rantzen at ‘ That 's Life ’ , BBC Television , Lime Grove Studios , London W12 7RJ , or to Miss M Boothroyd , ‘ The Dog House ’ , Good luck with the campaign ; if we can be of any further help , let us know .
22 ‘ I 've had breakfast .
23 ‘ I 've had enough of this team stuff , ’ he said .
24 ‘ We 've had 20 meetings with Afrikaner intellectuals in recent years , in various places , most of them unpublicised , ’ the ANC spokesman said .
25 ‘ We 've had other clubs here with 3,000 supporters , like Bolton and Burnley , with no trouble , ’ Mackay said .
26 Two years on and £1,000 poorer ( I 've had to foot his costs to buy him off my land ) the lawyers have patched up some sort of agreement .
27 Randall , 38 , who hit more than 1,000 first-class runs for Nottinghamshire , said : ‘ I 've had a bit of cartilage trimmed off , but it feels fine now and should n't cause me any problems at all next season . ’
28 Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year .
29 He said last night : ‘ I 've had a spot of bother for the past four or five years with my knee so I had these X-rays done and they found a bone growth about the size of a pea .
30 So we 've had to do a lot of work ourselves , including researching carefully that we are doing something worthwhile . ’
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