Example sentences of "they had had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 2 | But they had bought food on their way coming through Halstead , the 1976 version of takeaway , a couple of meat pies , apples , Coke , and they had had lunch lying in the grass by the lake . |
| 3 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 4 | For months they had had difficulty in reconciling the accounts until they realized the extent of shoplifting . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you know about the Borrowdale cuckoo ? ’ he asked , turning an amused expression on the man who might — from these questions — be from the government — they had had government people before and he would not be surprised at them sending a senior man . |
| 6 | They had had £10 : 1s. : 0d. advanced to them but divided between the two men for the 2½ months labour that was scarcely a good wage … average perhaps . |
| 7 | If they had had pistols , they 'd have been able to get a better aim . |
| 8 | It had been very hot all day ; they had had exams in the morning and she had done badly because she felt so tired . |
| 9 | A quarter also said that they had had shoes spoiled . |
| 10 | They had had accountants to help them in the past but , as a group , Laura never trusted them . |
| 11 | He was so candid that , for a moment , Kelly expected him to reveal that they had had dinner together , but with the slightest hint of a cautionary glance in her direction , he merely referred to ‘ a follow-up meeting away from the office ’ . |
| 12 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 13 | They walked , he directing her , to the small drawing-room where they had had tea the first afternoon . |
| 14 | They had had tea at the Ritz and drinks at the Café Royal , and then more drinks at Lyons ' Corner House in Coventry Street because they were fed up with swish places and Lyons ' seemed more like home . |
| 15 | It was Artemesia who was tortured into proving that she was a virgin when she was raped and had to dispute all the ’ witnesses ’ brought in by Tassi who claimed that they had had Artemesia too . ’ |
| 16 | If they had had gear , they would n't have served a stranger . ’ |
| 17 | The previous one had never been clean before the next one arrived ; they had had dummies shoved in their mouths to keep them quiet until they were four or five ; and they crawled , ran and fell around the place — filthy , whining and hungry — until Onyx was forced to give them some of the attention they needed . |
| 18 | In our main survey , only seven per cent told us that they had had classes about household budgeting or managing money while they were at school — and rather less than half of even this small minority said that they had been taught anything about buying on credit , or borrowing money . |
| 19 | He could touch dead things , even dead slugs after they had had salt poured over them . |
| 20 | But Curbishley had few worries about beating Sunderland once they had had Kay sent off for foolishly retaliating against Walsh . |
| 21 | They had had hospital treatment but were now at home . |
| 22 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 23 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 24 | ‘ She arrived about seven thirty and they had had time enough to get to grips with their subject matter already , by all accounts . ’ |
| 25 | Many of them had had sex with other gays , but few of them had accepted that you could make a way of life out of it . |
| 26 | The only message some of them had had time to give their children as the social workers took them to waiting cars was ‘ have faith , be strong , we 'll do what we can ’ . |
| 27 | If a few more of them had had children , legitimate or otherwise , they would n't look like a lot of dried-up old lemons . |