Example sentences of "[pron] had had [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only , thought Robert , I had had teachers like that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most were armed with large stones or pieces of wood which had had nails or shards of glass stuck into them . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It turned out that she had had palpitations in the past but had forgotten about them . |
| 12 | She had had visions too , during the three weeks since the news . |
| 13 | She had had aunts and uncles and cousins and a parish priest , while Scarlet had had none of these . |
| 14 | She had decided on making her career in industrial nursing after leaving general nursing , even though at first she had had reservations and wondered if she had made the right move . |
| 15 | While Dennis added : ‘ I knew Ellen wanted a rocking chair to replace the one she had had years ago . ’ |
| 16 | He had told her there was a flat going in Westbourne Park and she had had hysterics . |
| 17 | I agree , she would not normally have expected the remainder to fall in and be useful to her , but of course if she had had children , it would have been valuable to them . ’ |
| 18 | Between the ages of 2 and 5 she had had episodes of disturbed behaviour during sleep . |
| 19 | His main aim in these months was to reconcile and renew the nation : hence no revolution , but most of the reforms that the CNR had wanted ; hence a purge , but not the wholesale purge of all who had had dealings with the Germans or with Vichy ; hence a referendum and free elections , but no plebiscite ( whatever his opponents alleged , the referendum of October 1945 was not a true plebiscite ) ; hence the presidency but no Gaullist party . |
| 20 | I saw this programme , about girls of fifteen who had had abortions , and they said the nurses made them feel they should n't be having abortions , they should keep the baby . |
| 21 | Self reported constipation for at least a quarter of the time was more common in whomen who had had hysterectomies than controls ( at 25–49 years , 20% v 9% , NS ; at 50–69 years , 22% v 8% , p<0.025 ) . |
| 22 | Of the remaining three patients who had had infections but normal pitted cell counts , one had recently finished a course of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis and a fifth had culture negative pneumonia . |
| 23 | At the fourth , nine more , transferred from Hyland ( Ind ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to her from two other candidates , F and Cl . |
| 24 | At the fifth , 19 more transferred from Brennan ( Ind ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from three other candidates , F , Cl and H. |
| 25 | At the sixth , 64 more transferred from Crilly ( WP ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from four other candidates , F , Cl , H and B. |
| 26 | At the seventh , 72 more transferred from O'Snodaigh ( SF ) , who had had votes transferred to him from three other candidates , Cl , B and Cr . |
| 27 | At the ninth count 418 more transferred from Mullarney ( GA ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to her from seven other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S and E. |
| 28 | At the tenth count , 104 more transferred from Ryan ( FF ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from seven other candidates . |
| 29 | At the eleventh count , 839 more transferred from Smith ( WP ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to him from nine other candidates , F , Cl , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M and R. |
| 30 | At the twelfth count , 170 more transferred from McAleese ( FF ) , eliminated , who had had votes transferred to her from nine other candidates , F , H , B , Cr , O'S , E , M , R and S. |