Example sentences of "[pron] had have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At eighteen — the period of the mousseline de soie dress — she had found herself hanging around a certain area of Twickenham , where they were then living , in the hopes of encountering the doctor 's son , with whom she had had a strangled conversation at some social gathering . |
| 32 | She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life . |
| 33 | What if she had had a threatening letter which worried her enough to make her turn to pills ? ’ |
| 34 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 35 | All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going . |
| 36 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 37 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 38 | ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’ |
| 39 | All this seems a very curious — indeed an eccentric — arrangement on the part of Nature who , if she had had a proper training in the theory of fibrous composite materials , would surely have known better . |
| 40 | She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital . |
| 41 | She had had no previous treatment for any emotional difficulties . |
| 42 | She said she had had no bad modelling experiences but that running around Ravenhill at a recent Ulster rugby game against Australia in front of 15,000 whistling fans had proved ‘ very embarrassing ’ . |
| 43 | The reason in both cases why the security given was unenforceable was that ( a ) the security was given by the wife of the debtor , ( b ) the creditor knew of the relationship , ( c ) the creditor had done nothing to ensure that the wife understand the transaction , ( d ) the wife did not properly understand the transaction , and ( e ) she had had no independent advice . |
| 44 | Although Britain had long had trading connections with these areas , hitherto she had had no territorial ambitions there . |
| 45 | She had had the tiresome habit of subjecting her speech-writers to a sixth-form question and answer session along the lines of , ‘ Tell me Chris , what do you mean by ‘ liberty ’ ? ’ and it was not until the welcome arrival of a cheerful Denis at two-thirty in the morning that she could be persuaded to go to bed . |
| 46 | Early on in the preparations , she had had an inexplicable change of heart and remained committed . |
| 47 | She had had an unpleasant feeling it might have been her . |
| 48 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 49 | He had n't seen anyone carry on like this since going to watch the World Wrestling Federation with Gilbert Lewis , the man next door 's nephew , who had had a major seizure at the sight of a man called Hulk Hogan and had written to Robert afterwards to say that he ‘ had never expected to see anything like that in real life ’ . |
| 50 | The children of women with schizophrenia followed up by Mednick and his colleagues ( 1981a ) who eventually developed schizophrenia were more likely to have had perinatal complications than those who had had a non-traumatic birth . |
| 51 | Albert , she had remarked — Rose had n't known Twitch even had a Christian name — is like pummy stone , whereas Naseby ( who had had a definite smirk on his face when he saw her new hat ) is like Irritating Plaster , he causes irruptions . |
| 52 | Next day , Thomas , who had had a good tour so far , bowled poorly and paid the price ; Botham , by contrast , had had an awful tour , but now he bowled well and took five wickets as a result . |
| 53 | In a series of 141 patients who had had a prophylactic colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis , five patients had a history of acute pancreatitis . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Another interesting case is that of a little boy who had had a difficult birth and had been left slightly spastic . |
| 56 | When comparing the group of patients who had had a single attack with the control group , there was no significant difference in amylase secretion ( Table III ) . |
| 57 | Once the land had been expropriated , it was to be turned into cooperatives but , because the government felt it would be difficult for peasants , who had had no previous experience of administering a large farm , to move straight to a cooperative , there was an intermediary stage . |
| 58 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 59 | Exley , at 30 almost a veteran , but who had had an impressive run in this year 's championships , vowed : ‘ I 'll be back next year and if I meet Eric I 'll beat him . ’ |
| 60 | But she was inherently an unhappy woman , who had had an unhappy childhood , and possibly an unhappy marriage , although she would never have admitted it . |