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

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1 The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took .
2 To borrow a phrase from a biography of Van Gogh , the writer had had the advantage of having the artist as a coauthor .
3 If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them .
4 Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children .
5 Commentators suggested that the attempt had had the support of wealthy former politicians , whose ambitions had been foiled by Babangida 's refusal to allow the " old guard " of politicians to stand for office on the return to party politics .
6 During the meeting Yassir Arafat , the PLO chair , stressed that the PLO had had no alternative but to support Iraq during the Gulf war .
7 On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road .
8 All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back .
9 She goes on to say that the justices came to the view that the justice on the Friday had had no power to remand Mr. Bell in custody until the Monday , as the remand did not fall within the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 and that , accordingly , they no longer had any jurisdiction to hear the matter .
10 The boat had had no luck on the West coast .
11 On the facts of the case the rules of natural justice had been broken because the constable had had no opportunity to comment upon the allegations made against him .
12 A funeral procession from the workhouse had had the temerity to pass through his Lordship 's private grounds , thereby producing feelings of outrage .
13 He said the Chancellor had had no choice but to put interest rates up last week .
14 Mr Portillo said the Chancellor had had no option but to increase taxes to curb ballooning Government borrowing .
15 Shortly thereafter cracks began to appear in the house both internally and externally and the purchaser had to have the house underpinned at a cost of £1,444 and had obtained estimates of between £1,500 and 12,000 for repairs to the superstructure .
16 But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim .
17 Some 45 relief workers were the only foreigners remaining in the city , and the UN had had no representation in Mogadishu for some months .
18 The archer had to have a face .
19 It was clear that the debtor had had no communication with his accountant .
20 The complaint , filed on 19 December , stated that the government had had a duty to inform Pan Am of information in its possession that a terrorist organization was planning to place a bomb on a Pan Am flight from either Frankfurt or London , specifically on Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 , and had ‘ negligently failed to inform Pan Am ’ .
21 The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England .
22 ( 2 ) Allowing the appeal , that before making the prohibited steps orders the justices should have informed the parties of their intention and given them an opportunity to make submissions as to whether such orders were appropriate ; that the justices had had no jurisdiction to make an order prohibiting the parents from having contact with each other because such contact was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibility towards his child and thus was outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; that , on the evidence they accepted , the justices had been plainly wrong to refuse to make the interim care orders ; and that , accordingly , the court would substitute interim care orders relating to both children ( post , pp. 271B–D , H — 272A , F , H — 273A ) .
23 Presumably the box had to have a master .
24 Namely , he will be inviting your Lordship to er look at whether or not the business the plaintiff 's would have failed in any event er because it is the defendants case relying er extensively upon the opinion of their expert Mr er that even if the plaintiffs had had the finances which were originally anticipated and had completed the deal in accordance with that , the probabilities are that this business would have failed in any event and that they would have incurred the losses they did er so I anticipate there is going to be a dispute between us as to the basis in which your Lordship is to determine compensation in this case .
25 There had been no guard rails and the men had had no experience or instructions to carry out the job .
26 Joan asked if the police had had a warrant and she replied , ‘ Yes . ’
27 Before Punjab came under British rule in 1849 the peasants had had a right to farm the land but had not owned it , in the sense of being able to sell it off .
28 Edmund Mortimer kept his head , deployed his archers in what cover there was , massed his knights and men-at-arms on firm ground clear of the marsh meadows , and stood to receive the attack , braced to hold back his horsed companies until the bowmen had had the chance to loose from cover three or four volleys , and reduce the odds .
29 Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín .
30 During 1973–5 , in the wake of the oil crisis and the Middle East War , the company had had a borrowing facility from the Midland Bank of £100,000 yet they were , in fact , overdrawn by some £300,000 .
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