Example sentences of "had had a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Rosie 's return to the Watermen , Patrick had had a new lease of life . |
| 2 | The whole operation had taken a few seconds only , a little huddle of activity in all of which the discreet entry of Liz Spalding to the house had had a good chance of going unnoticed by any distant , watching eyes . |
| 3 | The objectives of Rolls Royce had been met — a group of highly intelligent , well-motivated students had had a good experience of the engineering industry , and their interest in an engineering career had , by their own account , been greatly increased as a result . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this . |
| 6 | Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary . |
| 7 | For he had had a peaceful life of it with Yanek , up on the mountain . |
| 8 | Although they had no single rooms left , they said finally , they had had a late cancellation of a suite . |
| 9 | The greatest Roman triumph was to secure the allegiance of Tincommius of the Atrebates , whose father , Commius , had had a pathological hatred of Rome . |
| 10 | Alfred had had a dark night of the soul . |
| 11 | The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory . |
| 12 | Since that fraught evening over a month ago , Celia had had a certain change of heart . |
| 13 | This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career . |
| 14 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the Preston studies men and women who had had a high ratio of placental weight to birth weight had raised blood pressure , higher rates of impaired glucose tolerance , and raised plasma fibrinogen concentrations . |
| 17 | I had had a sudden image of Syl bringing me breakfast in a bed which we had shared , and I heard myself saying aloud , ‘ No ! ’ |
| 18 | All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going . |
| 19 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |
| 20 | She had stayed at the baths a long time , probably getting a chill , but worst of all no-one would testify that the water in the pool had had a proper dose of chlorine . |