Example sentences of "they had had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had had occasional disputes as all families do but none had been damaging . |
| 2 | When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King . |
| 3 | that they had had insufficient feedback ; |
| 4 | But Bosnian Serbs refused to let the convoy pass , saying they had had insufficient advance notice , said Judith Kumin of the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgrade . |
| 5 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 6 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
| 7 | What would Wales have achieved 20 years ago if they had had endless squad sessions , trips to Lanzarote , 2–3 days a week off to train , personal fitness plans , etc. ? |
| 8 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 9 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 10 | They were excluded if they had been treated with steroids , cytotoxic drugs , antibiotics , anti-ulcer drugs , or if they had had gastroduodenal surgery . |
| 11 | Reviewing women at between 22–28 years after the index pregnancy ( when they had had abnormal glucose tolerance , but reverted to normal tolerance afterwards ) , he found a 50% prevalence of diabetes and 25% of abnormal glucose tolerance , whereas the controls had rates of 7% and 3% . |
| 12 | They had had medical attention since the beginning of the year and he did not know where to turn for a penny . |
| 13 | They had had high priority since the fuel crisis of February 1947 , but boilers and site work had in many cases been delayed ( mainly because of steel shortages ) so that 300–400MW of plant completed by the turbo-alternator manufacturers had had to be put in store for a year or more . |
| 14 | Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand . |
| 15 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 16 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |