Example sentences of "he had had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalgliesh knew that no politician would have talked with such freedom unless he had had absolute confidence in his listener 's discretion . |
| 2 | Charles admired the skill with which the old pro conveyed an air of ease and relaxation , of the company having been one happy family , of the great fun he had had rehearsing for the show . |
| 3 | Apparently this old man , John Raven lived in a shack beside the stone and made a good living out of selling a paper he had had printed , which gave the size , weight and origin of the stone . |
| 4 | ‘ Recently he showed me a form he had had printed ; the form to stop all forms . |
| 5 | He had had similar , though slighter , worries at Bec , not least during his first year as abbot , when he found himself immersed in lawsuits against those who claimed lands and tithes belonging to Bec for which no title deeds could be found . |
| 6 | He had had violent diarrhoea and had wiped his arse in the night with his own clothes . |
| 7 | They passed the fountain , which still lay in darkness , having beaten Stephen and the team of electricians he had had working until minutes before the guests ' arrival — the one and only thing that was not finished . |
| 8 | It was held that in showing that he relied upon the figures in Lloyd 's Register and had disregarded the figure in the ship 's documents , he had failed to prove that he had had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation . |
| 9 | He had had mock fights enough , and some of them pretty dirty . |
| 10 | Timothy Langdale , QC , counsel for Guppy , said he had had high expenses in recent years and it should not be assumed ‘ that there is some pot of gold stuck in some foreign country ’ . |
| 11 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 12 | He had had severe headaches and depression , and was made nervous by a warning of treachery from a madman who ran out of the woods . |
| 13 | He did not say much but agreed that he had had queer thoughts ad wondered whether they really were due to normal depression or the influence of the discovery . |