Example sentences of "[pron] had had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I had had breakfast and done the morning 's chores it was after eleven and , though the rain was letting up , it was still wet enough to keep anyone indoors who did n't have to go out . |
| 2 | Even if I had had pencil and paper on me , I would not have cared to leave a note where someone else might see it first . |
| 3 | If only , thought Robert , I had had teachers like that . |
| 4 | I remarked on the truculence , boorishness and dishonesty which I had encountered , routinely , in the hotel and in restaurants ; indeed , whenever I had had dealings with anyone in a public capacity . |
| 5 | You know , I was embarrassed to tell my mother that I was pregnant , because it showed that I had had sex . |
| 6 | Before , I had had Daisy : when I had lost her , I had lost both sister and friend . |
| 7 | I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences . |
| 8 | Already I had had presentiments of the satisfaction I would feel when I eventually got the bag home — the huge relief as I unpacked my treasures . |
| 9 | I was rather surprised , as we were not in the habit of writing to each other , and I had had dinner with him the night before . |
| 10 | If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available . |
| 11 | In The Quick and the Dead , I had had Richie Quick come up against a similar operator . |
| 12 | Only then I had had Irina to share things with and Aunt Anna to turn to . |
| 13 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 14 | I would have gladly done so , if I had had time . |
| 15 | It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought . |
| 16 | ‘ No ; the police came to see me before I had had time to make other arrangements . |
| 17 | Besides , I had had time to pick up the late edition . |
| 18 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 19 | Writing about the future development of education following abolition of the Schools Council , which had had curriculum development and examination monitoring functions and which had managed to stem temporarily the growth of DES curricular involvement , Plaskow commented that without the achievement of consensus within a workable framework , there would be central direction , with ‘ prescription through authority ’ . |
| 20 | The fact that the game was received so enthusiastically in such places as Argentina , Uruguay and Brazil , countries which had had south European rather than British cultures thrust upon them , testifies to the wide popular appeal of football . |
| 21 | It was her dad 's favourite piece that he 'd always refused to sell and which had had pride of place on top of the mantelpiece in the parlour . |
| 22 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 23 | The Irish republican SDLP and other groups which had had members in it turned on the Wilson government with the utmost ferocity for being weak , cowardly and treacherous . |
| 24 | The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist . |
| 25 | Most were armed with large stones or pieces of wood which had had nails or shards of glass stuck into them . |
| 26 | The cohesiveness of the governing coalition was called into question as both Sigua and Kitovani had been part of the Round Table which had had Iosseliani arrested in February 1991 [ see p. 38015 ] . |
| 27 | Williams showed that it would be much better to concentrate on attacking U-boats which could still be seen on the surface , with a depth-charge setting of 25 feet , and ignore those which had had time to submerge , because of the uncertainty in knowing their exact position . |
| 28 | Trees which had been hacked and chopped and mutilated , which had had branches torn away so that they could be roughly stacked against the wall . |
| 29 | In the meantime , he had to accept Lothar 's control of the enclave on the west bank of the Rhine , including Ingelheim , Mainz and Worms , on which he himself had had designs since 831 . |
| 30 | It came as a shock , but it was also confirmation of the feeling she had had back at the restaurant when the man , Karr , had spoken to her . |