Example sentences of "had had a [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one brief moment while she stood illuminated thus theatrically , and still not at all comprehending that the group which confronted her had had a close brush with tragedy . |
| 2 | Then when Evans went in to a selection committee meeting , the reason for Connon 's presence that night , Dalziel had had a long talk with Gwen . |
| 3 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 4 | Margaret had had a paid job with the BUF in the last few months of her membership but with Joyce 's departure from the movement she had lost that as well . |
| 5 | The children had had a bad spell with that , but she thought it was over now . |
| 6 | One had been given intramuscular ampicillin for a septic cord ; one had had a traumatic caesarean birth ; one had had a difficult birth with vacuum extraction and he also had a ventricular septal defect ; one had a heart murmur ; and one had been premature and in a special care unit with hypotonia and jaundice . |
| 7 | Sir Wilfrid had had a difficult time with the gardener 's cat and later with the gardener . |
| 8 | Since this meeting , Richard had had a further debate with his conscience . |
| 9 | Over the years , in my role as home tutor to his mother , I had had a privileged relationship with Balbinder and his family . |
| 10 | The local police had had a busy evening with an exceptional number of hoax calls that led them to non-existent road accidents drunken brawls and even — a touch that showed a nice appreciation of British susceptibilities — a rabid dog on the loose . |
| 11 | When comparing the group of patients who had had a single attack with the control group , there was no significant difference in amylase secretion ( Table III ) . |
| 12 | Having attempted to define the campaign 's agenda on the basis of " family values " , Bush was also severely embarrassed by a front page story carried in the New York Post on Aug. 11 which alleged that he had had an extra-marital affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald , a former personal assistant and a current protocol officer in the State Department . |
| 13 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |