Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done . |
| 2 | After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection . |
| 3 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 4 | ‘ Picnic ’ : a word that she had had no occasion to use from that day to this . |
| 5 | The nursing staff told her father that she had had no rest during the night and was in considerable pain . |
| 6 | The wife of the detained dissident , Sasha Vondra , said yesterday that she had had no news of her husband for three weeks . |
| 7 | It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left . |
| 8 | June Rogers reported that she had had a meeting with parents interested in improving the play area at the Sun Hill recreation ground . |
| 9 | In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session , she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre . |
| 10 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 11 | Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise . |
| 12 | It seemed to her that she had had an insight of vivid and terrible power and that something should now change . |
| 13 | Winchester 's complaints that they had had no opportunity to make any representation and that they lacked particulars of the allegations which were made against them , met with no response from Lautro . |
| 14 | Winchester complained that they had had no opportunity to make any representations , and that they lacked particulars of the allegations made against them , to which there was no direct response from Lautro . |
| 15 | In a recent survey of consultant staff supervising preregistration house officers in Yorkshire 79% admitted that they had had no training in educational method , yet three quarters stated that they would like it . |
| 16 | Some subject board chairmen were adamant that they were not prepared to implement a policy that they had had no hand in shaping . |
| 17 | It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother . |
| 18 | She wanted their parents to know that they had had an accident , were safely aboard a Royal Navy ship and would be home soon . ’ |
| 19 | They had to satisfy the judges that they had had the education of an English gentleman . |
| 20 | Last autumn President Bush said that what was wrong with the Soviet Union was not so much its ideology as the fact that it had had an ideology at all . |
| 21 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 22 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 23 | Minton replied that he had had a girl the night before . |
| 24 | He then went on to say that he had had a complaint from the men in the next room , that I was using what he could only describe as ‘ a female sex aid device ’ for long periods at night and first thing in the morning . |
| 25 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 26 | The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews . |
| 27 | It was obvious from Willie 's astounded expression that he had had no idea at all . |
| 28 | George felt anxious that he had had no opportunity to be alone with Tamar , and so there had been no chance of warning her about the groom . |
| 29 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 30 | The chairman was clearly annoyed at Maradona 's claim that he had had no time to notify him on Monday before returning to Argentina for the friendly against Denmark . |