Example sentences of "[pron] had have [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 2 | so I mean she 's , she 's she 's and I said to her when when all the things were going wrong with I had to have a lot of chats with her and said well you you 've got to prove that you can rebound from this |
| 3 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 4 | I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done . |
| 5 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 6 | If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me . |
| 7 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 8 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 9 | I had had no intention of touching it while Charlie Trumper was still away at war , until some five months later Kitty Trumper visited me in Romford . |
| 10 | Take the case of a hypothetical economy which had had no experience of inflation in its recent history so that the rate of inflation which was expected to take place over the foreseeable future was zero . |
| 11 | It only remains to emphasise that the new Parliamentary Labour Party was socially far more representative of the country as a whole than the party of 1935 onwards , and that its leadership , which had had the experience of participation in government during the war , was able to assume the reins of office without any of the difficulties that Ramsay MacDonald encountered in forming his minority governments in 1924 and 1929 . |
| 12 | Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine . |
| 13 | When she first came to the sand , a long time ago , she had had a pocketful of pills and squeezers , but she had lost interest in them . |
| 14 | Shamefully , she had had a vision of his body naked , even before they had gone to bed together , her first intimation that she was beginning to feel more for him than she ought , for the vision had not frightened but intrigued her . |
| 15 | When Susie first came to see me , she had had a string of unhappy love affairs . |
| 16 | She had had a glimpse of the academic sort of ‘ summer school ’ when she went to Oxford to lecture on Ivy to some foreign students . |
| 17 | Sister Ignatia had said that Flora could n't know whether she wanted to come or not until she had had a sniff of the place , seen some of the other girls . |
| 18 | She had had no life of her own for several years ; if she went out for half an hour , she had to leave messages all round the flat , telling Yury she 'd be back soon , otherwise he would panic . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had told him something good would come out of that missing jewellery , but she had had no idea of just how wonderful it was going to be . |
| 21 | She had had no experience of domestic affairs , but she managed well enough , and had the satisfaction of knowing that she was doing something for Susan , after all . |
| 22 | As an only child , she had had no experience of that kind of affectionate teasing and she rather enjoyed it . |
| 23 | The wife of the detained dissident , Sasha Vondra , said yesterday that she had had no news of her husband for three weeks . |
| 24 | Yesterday when he had imprinted his lips on her mouth she had had no foretaste of what a deliberate kiss of his could be like . |
| 25 | She had had the benefit of having worked in an hotel after all . |
| 26 | It seemed to her that she had had an insight of vivid and terrible power and that something should now change . |
| 27 | During a 12 month period our laboratory investigated 10871 people who had had a course of hepatitis B vaccine . |
| 28 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 29 | Joshua , who had had a series of secretaries , one of whom had married John Biffen , said that he did . |
| 30 | The castle or the fortified town restricted the movements of mobile field armies ; in particular , it was effective against the rapid raids of Magyars , with their lightly armed mounted archers , or the Vikings , with their swift ships , who had had the advantage of striking rapidly and ranging far . |