Example sentences of "had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you had that experience recently ? |
| 2 | So the consideration of his uncles ' place in both the community and the synagogue calls to mind the fact that his father , as the first born son , should have had that pre-eminence . |
| 3 | We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work . |
| 4 | We sat on its terrace overlooking the harbour , watching the sky blush rose-red and devouring plum oysters , crabs , and langoustines caught that same day — and the first snails I have ever had that did not taste like bits of black rubber boot fried in garlic and olive oil . |
| 5 | The reaction to that speech - and my reaction to that , the attempt to explain and apologise — put a firm stop to any hope I might have had that I might have been a candidate for leadership of the party . ’ |
| 6 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 7 | If only I had n't had that last cup of hot chocolate . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , he 's had that lorry hi-jacked twice , has n't he ? ’ |
| 9 | For the tutor it is the seventh conversation about The Prelude he or she has had that week . |
| 10 | Television is excellent for this , and Chomsky for long has had that great domain in which to show how governments and the big businesses linked to most television powers are very , very careful to be sure that few views are presented which violate the currently useful consensus . |
| 11 | At the time , the idea of a strong exclusive relationship was something that I did not actually want and I do n't think that even consciously at that time , I would have sought to have had that kind of relationship with David who was considerably younger than me and also , even though I was deeply into the whole scene and everything it represented , I do n't think I actually wanted to settle down with somebody who was a musician and was leading that sort of life style . |
| 12 | Had she had that in her pocket since yesterday morning ? |
| 13 | There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling . |
| 14 | But of course , Couples has n't had that outstanding a career , so far . |
| 15 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |
| 16 | But to be fair , none of the drivers had had that Mr Major or Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown in the back of the cab . |
| 17 | He cheered himself with the thought that there was not ‘ an idea I 've ever had that I have n't put down on paper . ’ |
| 18 | Had he missed the cut , Woosnam would not even have had that to watch on Saturday , since the network went off the air with about an hour 's play left in a move that would have angered Great Britain . |
| 19 | But he 'd had that last night — or rather , in the small hours of the morning . |
| 20 | For one thing , any hopes my father may have had that to meet the General in person would arouse a sense of respect or sympathy to leaven his feelings against him proved without foundation . |
| 21 | I still had n't had that moment of awakening , satori , enlightenment . |
| 22 | You 've had that pain under your ribs for a long time . |
| 23 | Each person in turn is asked to say what experience they have had that might help in thinking about this issue . |
| 24 | Anyone who had had that knew a bit about the Treasury and knew a little bit about fighting back and working round them and all the rest of it and of giving orders direct to the Chancellor and saying , ‘ Look , this is what we must have ’ , and then getting the Cabinet to back it , so that it was harder for the Treasury to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 25 | There were five informal carers who said at their first interviews they would prefer the dementia sufferer to be in an institution but who had not had that preference fulfilled a year later ( Table 5.6 : three in the action samples , two in control ; four in Ipswich , one in Newham ) . |
| 26 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 27 | Delaney remembered the feeling he had had that Connors was holding something back . |
| 28 | You 've never had that dust in your nostrils ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've had that for fifteen years . |
| 30 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience , The Jam , Nirvana , Hüsker Dü : they 've all had that peculiar chemistry … |