Example sentences of "they had had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had had a pleasant walk and an easy supper . |
| 2 | Although they had no single rooms left , they said finally , they had had a late cancellation of a suite . |
| 3 | But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms . |
| 4 | She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners . |
| 5 | Mid-way through the production year Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and David Whitaker knew they had had a second season approved by delighted BBC Television Controllers . |
| 6 | He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home . |
| 7 | They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources . |
| 8 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 9 | Dmitri agreed with her , and they had had a passionate argument last night with Marchak , who drove racing cars , and Frolovna , who had loved a matador for two weeks in Spain . |
| 10 | Similarly , Zuwaya claimed that they had had a Turkish licence — an exclusive licence , no less — to conduct traders and travellers who wished to cross the desert from Benghazi to Black Africa . |
| 11 | This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career . |
| 12 | Three years earlier they had had a brief affair . |
| 13 | They had had a fine collection : Tombs and Torturers ; Vices and Virgins . |
| 14 | By the end of the fifteenth century fewer Chancery officials were clerics than in mid-century , and more of them had had a legal education . |