Example sentences of "she had had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came as a shock , but it was also confirmation of the feeling she had had back at the restaurant when the man , Karr , had spoken to her . |
| 2 | She could not even say she truly felt she had had Ferdinando with her those four months . |
| 3 | She was told she had had intercourse with an eight-year-old boy . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had had polio so that one of her legs would be in irons . |
| 5 | She had had Moorlake House and was in the red an " the Moorlake Secretarial School did n't have enough pupils , but driving along this morning , she felt curiously content . |
| 6 | Once he had hit her so hard when she would n't tell him where she 'd been that she had had concussion . |
| 7 | It turned out that she had had palpitations in the past but had forgotten about them . |
| 8 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 9 | At the time she had had Peter in her tummy and a fall could have had serious consequences for both herself and the unborn baby . |
| 10 | At work , given that , despite her de glamorisation , she had had cause to cold-shoulder one Lothario from Purchasing and another from Sales who had been fresh beyond what she thought acceptable , she was quite contented with her lot . |
| 11 | She had had visions too , during the three weeks since the news . |
| 12 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 13 | She had had aunts and uncles and cousins and a parish priest , while Scarlet had had none of these . |
| 14 | She had decided on making her career in industrial nursing after leaving general nursing , even though at first she had had reservations and wondered if she had made the right move . |
| 15 | She said that she had had people come to her office in tears , not knowing how they could possibly meet the cost of a funeral . |
| 16 | While Dennis added : ‘ I knew Ellen wanted a rocking chair to replace the one she had had years ago . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ To see the baby , ’ had been the bait , and so she had had tea with the Baileys and the baby , whom Mrs Bailey had adopted — a piece of altruism which staggered Sally-Anne , who thought that Mrs Bailey had enough to do on too little with her own brood . |
| 18 | He had told her there was a flat going in Westbourne Park and she had had hysterics . |
| 19 | I agree , she would not normally have expected the remainder to fall in and be useful to her , but of course if she had had children , it would have been valuable to them . ’ |
| 20 | She laughed quietly , that same feeling she had had staring down at the cove through the trees — that sense of being not quite herself — returning to her . |
| 21 | Perhaps Rachel did too , or would do when she had had time to work it out . |
| 22 | As he saw her , he stretched out his arms and lifted her up before she had had time to reach the bottom step . |
| 23 | So now you 're imagining that he , whoever he is , popped this through the letterbox , waited till she had had time to read it , then rang the bell and invited her to take a stroll with him . |
| 24 | Now she had had time to get to know him better , see other sides of him as well . |
| 25 | But not yet — not until she had had time to rebuild her shattered defences . |
| 26 | Not until she had had time to explain that Oliver was only a little boy , that he had n't really understood … |
| 27 | Now that she had had time to think everything through on the long walk home , she had soon realised how ridiculous her accusations must have sounded . |
| 28 | When she first lost her eye , she had had trouble keeping her balance , but she had thought she had overcome that . |
| 29 | Between the ages of 2 and 5 she had had episodes of disturbed behaviour during sleep . |