Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done .
2 After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection .
3 I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning .
4 Said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from a back garden and it was somewhere at Kirk Hill .
5 Oh , it said in yesterday 's paper that someone had had a wheelbarrow valued at thirty pounds stolen from her back garden and it was somewhere at , where the back gardens are n't particularly accessible .
6 Dalziel 's gaze wandered suspiciously round the room as if seeking signs ‘ that someone had had the effrontery to deface the slightly peeling wall with festive decoration .
7 ‘ Picnic ’ : a word that she had had no occasion to use from that day to this .
8 The nursing staff told her father that she had had no rest during the night and was in considerable pain .
9 The wife of the detained dissident , Sasha Vondra , said yesterday that she had had no news of her husband for three weeks .
10 It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left .
11 June Rogers reported that she had had a meeting with parents interested in improving the play area at the Sun Hill recreation ground .
12 In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session , she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre .
13 She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane .
14 Eventually Mrs Webster explained that she had had an evacuee before me , who had ‘ breathed on the wall ’ , and she did not want me to do likewise .
15 It seemed to her that she had had an insight of vivid and terrible power and that something should now change .
16 Oh no they did n't allow that you had to have the book .
17 Winchester 's complaints that they had had no opportunity to make any representation and that they lacked particulars of the allegations which were made against them , met with no response from Lautro .
18 Winchester complained that they had had no opportunity to make any representations , and that they lacked particulars of the allegations made against them , to which there was no direct response from Lautro .
19 In a recent survey of consultant staff supervising preregistration house officers in Yorkshire 79% admitted that they had had no training in educational method , yet three quarters stated that they would like it .
20 Some subject board chairmen were adamant that they were not prepared to implement a policy that they had had no hand in shaping .
21 It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother .
22 She wanted their parents to know that they had had an accident , were safely aboard a Royal Navy ship and would be home soon . ’
23 They had to satisfy the judges that they had had the education of an English gentleman .
24 Last autumn President Bush said that what was wrong with the Soviet Union was not so much its ideology as the fact that it had had an ideology at all .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 Minton replied that he had had a girl the night before .
28 He then went on to say that he had had a complaint from the men in the next room , that I was using what he could only describe as ‘ a female sex aid device ’ for long periods at night and first thing in the morning .
29 His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant .
30 The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews .
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