Example sentences of "i had had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had had endless hospitality in Moscow , and it was only natural Surkov would want to celebrate . |
| 2 | ‘ I was definitely not in my best shape because I had had major surgery in May for an ovarian cyst . |
| 3 | I had had one very close childhood friend , Maeve , but her family had moved to a different part of the country and I never saw her again . |
| 4 | I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life . |
| 5 | I also made documentaries on the battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz , with both of which , as the reader may recall , I had had distant brushes , and the battlecruiser or fast battleship Scharnhorst which had sunk my father 's Rawalpindi . |
| 6 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
| 7 | At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year . |
| 8 | I had had many tests . |
| 9 | I had had ten for a meal about two weeks ago , so that is my entertaining DONE for a while ! ! ! |
| 10 | If either Karen or I had had any idea that it was possible for someone to drown so quickly , we would no doubt have thrown caution to the wind and dived in . |
| 11 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 12 | Mark : I never fantasized about particular sexual activities until after I had had sexual activities . |
| 13 | ‘ I had had those moments myself , so I could appreciate them , ’ says Ray . |
| 14 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 15 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 16 | The most admirable part of the whole affair was the undeviating loyalty of his wife , Valerie Hobson , with whom I had had some encounters previously , when she was married to Anthony Havelock-Allan . |
| 17 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
| 18 | After two cancellations that were made at the behest of the managing director , Peter Threfall , I had had enough . |
| 19 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 20 | I hung up on them ; I had had enough . |
| 21 | I had had enough of luxury and distractions with Helmut . |
| 22 | I had had enough of that . |
| 23 | 3 S + V ( conditional perfect ) + if + S + V ( past perfect tense ) : I would have bought a new car if I had had enough money . |
| 24 | Three hours later I had had three whole contractions , still had a long thin cervix and the medics moved in . |
| 25 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 26 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |