Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] had have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A difficult birth was soon linked to a disputed paternity , for it was said that Hortense had had a lover — several names were suggested — and that Louis-Napoleon was the result of an illicit union . |
| 2 | The first time in weeks that Doyle had had the chance to lazily watch a football match , and almost immediately the phone goes . |
| 3 | She had understood that Frank had to have the bike . |
| 4 | I presumed that Prentice had had a word in somebody 's shell-like , or maybe nobody was very interested . |
| 5 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 6 | The underlying inference was that Drew had had the pockets renewed because of some tell-tale stain . |
| 7 | On May 20 the Iraqi National Assembly issued a statement rejecting the decisions of the UN 's Iraq-Kuwait border demarcation committee , saying that Iraq strongly opposed the committee 's structure and the method it had followed , and that Iraq had had no say in choosing the three independent experts who sat on it . |
| 8 | It had been sent by her aunt 's neighbour who reported that Bertha had had an accident . |
| 9 | There was always a rumour that Noreen had had a baby to an Italian , but they had never heard the truth of it in Ireland . |
| 10 | The coroner heard it revealed for the first time — none of the family knew it — that Charlie had had a stroke a few months before , which explained the strange behaviour . |
| 11 | If Isabel had had the energy she would have wiped the solicitous smile off his face . |
| 12 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 13 | It was absurd ; if Parkes had had a gun it would n't have been a .22 . |
| 14 | Gina and Nigel had had no guests for a year now . |
| 15 | It was already February , and Faye had had no problems since her return from hospital on Boxing Day . |
| 16 | He and Rory had had a drink the night before , and Rory confessed he 'd driven up from Belleeks early to cruise around Cultra and reconnoitre . |
| 17 | She preferred to be left alone to handle her problem with Silvia — at least until Silvia had had a chance to keep her word . |
| 18 | and I said I said to Bob I said well , you know said well had n't you better get cos Shirley had had a go at Bob first off , before when , when I went in there first thing . |
| 19 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 20 | The membership showed no interest in doing business that way , but would have talked if SCO had had a product . |
| 21 | He said he and his wife , Tracie , and their sons Michael , ten , and Dale had had a lie down . |
| 22 | He would wait another couple of years , he told himself , until Grégoire had had a chance to catch up , and was more confident . |
| 23 | You see , I thought I had evidence that you and Elise had had an affair , even though you would n't admit it . |
| 24 | If she and Lowell had had a child it would have been a strange hybrid , perhaps difficult to love . |
| 25 | It prospered and expanded under the principalship of Sir William Dawson ; by the time he had completed 38 years as Principal ( 1855–1893 ) the student body had risen from 100 to over 1000 , and Dawson had had the satisfaction of seeing great strides made in both the building programme and the various curricula — not least in his own scientific fields . |
| 26 | When Mary came in from work the day after the row she told Mum that she and Albert had had a talk and that she was going to stay with his parents for a bit while Albert sorted out a house and furniture and the paraphernalia of married life . |
| 27 | He had been in Reykjavik harbour when Churchill and Roosevelt had had an Atlantic meeting . |
| 28 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 29 | ‘ If Leopold had had a son , would it be the heir ? ’ |
| 30 | It acknowledged that all Noricum 's weapons sales to Argentina , Brazil , Bulgaria , Jordan , Libya , Poland and Thailand , had been means of providing Iran and Iraq with arms and could have been prevented , particularly if Gratz had had the destination certificates examined . |