Example sentences of "that [noun] had had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A difficult birth was soon linked to a disputed paternity , for it was said that Hortense had had a lover — several names were suggested — and that Louis-Napoleon was the result of an illicit union . |
| 2 | I presumed that Prentice had had a word in somebody 's shell-like , or maybe nobody was very interested . |
| 3 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 4 | There was always a rumour that Noreen had had a baby to an Italian , but they had never heard the truth of it in Ireland . |
| 5 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |