Example sentences of "he had had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
2 | Although he had had no such thoughts in mind , he realized that Cindy might well be in a position to do Emma some good , just as Emma was undoubtedly doing Cindy some . |
3 | He was almost 60 years of age and had been a fugitive for 22 years , during which time he had had no permanent home , no source of income and little respite from danger . |
4 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
5 | For he had had a peaceful life of it with Yanek , up on the mountain . |
6 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
7 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
8 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
9 | He had had a personal hand in the arrest of Ned Turner . |
10 | He believed he had had a determining influence on Modigliani 's evolution although the painter was too haughty to admit it . |
11 | I was sure he had had a gloating look in his eyes when he found out I had been robbed . |
12 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
13 | But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow . |
14 | When he got back , Pat asked him if he had had a good holiday . |
15 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
16 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
17 | ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink . |
18 | He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues . |
19 | Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this . |
20 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
21 | Ken replied , Orton later wrote in his own diary , that he had had a similar experience in Beirut and had ‘ paid twelve guineas a night for the privilege . ’ |
22 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
23 | Seddon was n't , saying that he had had a late tea . |
24 | As a young man he had had a strong desire to visit the United States and decided to go there for a holiday , but as the liner approached New York , he dreamed that his mother ( to whom he was not particularly strongly attached ) was lonely and missed him , and this dream made him terribly homesick . |
25 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
26 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
27 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
28 | ‘ His engineer would not take over as he had had a full day 's terror , so I volunteered to take over engine control in his place . |
29 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
30 | He had had a long-lasting bout of influenza early in the year which antibiotics did n't alleviate , and the attack had weakened him somewhat . |