Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club .
2 Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club .
3 Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked .
4 His solicitor said Porter 's common law wife had just had a miscarriage .
5 Virgin had never had the profits to squander .
6 Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me .
7 It was a Stavanger tradition to finance their ships by careful management and frugal living for themselves , and through the difficult years between the wars , the firm had never had an overdraft .
8 A monthly on the Third World from a big publishing stable had just had the plug pulled after only the sixth issue .
9 She would have liked to have had that sort of relationship with her own father , only he had died , and her uncle had definitely had no affinity with the great outdoors .
10 The Western world had already had a foretaste of this combination of factors following the price increases in the wake both of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and of the Iran revolution itself in 1978–79 .
11 But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance .
12 Rougier J. held that , before the seizure the buyer had already had the car a reasonable length of time for trying it out generally .
13 ‘ There were no sheep in the king 's gardens , ’ explained the bachelor , ‘ because the king 's mother had once had a dream .
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