Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd better have that dance , ’ she said to Jack Butler . |
| 2 | But honestly — I 'd better have that shower , had n't I ? ’ |
| 3 | After all that trauma of fixing it in , you 'd better have some whisky and honey had n't you ? |
| 4 | Well , he 'd better have another think . ’ |
| 5 | Ronni was suddenly grateful that just a moment ago she 'd already had this conversation . |
| 6 | He 'd always had such courtesy , could make a frump feel like a star , so Gillian used to say , a little ruefully . |
| 7 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 8 | Later in the interview , people were asked whether they 'd ever had any kind of problem or difficulty over any credit arrangements . |
| 9 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 10 | I tell you something I wish I 'd never had that cat round my back door . |
| 11 | Heaven knew she was no stranger to men 's admiring glances , but they 'd never had this effect on her before — nor anything remotely like it ! |
| 12 | Until then I 'd never had any intimation of what was being done nowadays in the field of biblical research , or of the attacks being launched by competent historians . |
| 13 | As I said , part of Barny 's problem was that he 'd never had any contact with people at all , and by the time I got him it was too late . |
| 14 | Then , although I 'd never had any morning sickness , I began to feel pain after I 'd eaten . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd never had any trouble getting pregnant , ’ she says , ‘ And that had been my downfall in a way . |
| 16 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 17 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 18 | This morning 's episode at the flat had shaken her up quite a bit , and she needed desperately to have some time to herself in quiet surroundings . |
| 19 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 20 | But everything she , everything she did always had some embroidery on . |
| 21 | Although the committee accepts the DTp 's contention that individual pollution accidents had hitherto had little effect , it believes that the rise in incidents in the crowded North Sea and English Channel is a serious " cause for concern " . |
| 22 | Or perhaps I had better have another brandy first . ’ |
| 23 | Many , of course , had brothers or older friends in the Rowdies group and had already had some experience of ‘ hanging around ’ with them in other social arenas away from the terraces . |
| 24 | Iran-contra , however , had always had another star , a more retiring one ; and he had not given anything like a full performance yet . |
| 25 | Franco had always had this power to part the curtains on a scene he did not want to see . |
| 26 | The result , according to the DEA spokesman 's sworn testimony , was a classified 350-page report , reviewed and confirmed by its sister agency , the FBI , showing that Jafaar had never been used as an informant or subsource and that no DEA agent or office had ever had any contact with him . |
| 27 | It was an ideal opportunity for her to find out whether Andrew knew the missing don , and whether Puddephat had ever had any connection with rue Roland . |
| 28 | If he had ever had any feeling for her it was now stone-dead . |
| 29 | He remembered the call he had also had that morning from a senior man in Special Branch . |
| 30 | So now , although her guests had really had enough tea and would rather have been somewhere else , everyone was showing signs of impatience for another cup . |