Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No-one need ever know she had had the facelift if she chose not to tell them .
2 The few who maintained they had had no benefit from their training were all apprentices .
3 They had been hustled off the boat separately , and her inquisitor had simply ignored her demands to have Clive brought in so that he could confirm she had had no knowledge of what was going on .
4 well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started
5 ‘ We realised we had to have a price rise but not as great as the council have proposed , ’ he said .
6 It was n't exactly like he had to have an appointment , but it was that he did n't fit into the structure .
7 He wondered what was wrong , wishing he had had a chance to talk to Ruth — though from the expression on her face as she hovered behind Cashman she did n't know either .
8 Suppose I had had an abortion ? ’
9 If he had not known she had had a baby only a month before he would have wanted to make love to her , she was .
10 The dread excitement of D-Day came , and I longed to be at Bletchley where I felt I had had a rôle .
11 ‘ She knew I had to have an operation , ’ said Olivia .
12 Cos I thought I had to have a tetanus , and she goes , oh you do n't need it .
13 She knew they had had a visitor last night , but no one had told her who it was or why they 'd come .
14 At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry .
15 I knew he had had the breakdown and at first I did n't mind .
16 Surprisingly , no Sunday lunch was brought up to him , nor was there any tea , and it was only around three in the afternoon that he realized he had had no visitors since noon .
17 They were all very heartened that someone was at last taking an interest : I only wish I had had a tape recorder !
18 For those living in residential care , more than half did not know the difference between private and public homes ( p. 187 ) , whilst two-thirds of residents said they had had no choice as to which home they might enter .
19 He stood by his Department 's actions , and said they had had no option but to do what they did , in the way they did it .
20 I said women should have a choice : the hospital said it had to have a policy . ’
21 David Sweeten said he had had no distribution problems .
22 The trouble was that Arnold said he had had a letter from a Mr Anderson who wanted to caddie for him as well .
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