Example sentences of "[pron] had have a [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When Susie first came to see me , she had had a string of unhappy love affairs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During a 12 month period our laboratory investigated 10871 people who had had a course of hepatitis B vaccine . |
| 15 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 16 | Joshua , who had had a series of secretaries , one of whom had married John Biffen , said that he did . |
| 17 | The President , who had to have a minimum of 15 years ' professional political experience , would chair Cabinet meetings and would be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces . |
| 18 | Erm and it was rather a a and heavy work , you had to have a team of horses to pull a load of suedes and you had to get them in Some you used to carry out on and just drag them I mean s spread them out on the field er for the store cattle and the sheep . |
| 19 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 20 | Inspector Dave Jenkinson , said : ’ We had had a lot of complaints about drivers with no lane discipline . |
| 21 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 22 | And erm I they had to have a couple of I mean I think |
| 23 | Well — what if there were , they had had a lot of him and would find through loss , perhaps , all sorts of qualities in themselves and others they would otherwise have missed . |
| 24 | In the spring , they had had a vase of bluebells in the kitchen ; he had run up the stem of one full , blue flower and it had barely bent under his weight . |
| 25 | Poor Ryan , he had had a heart of gold . |
| 26 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 27 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 28 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 29 | He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them . |
| 30 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |