Example sentences of "[noun sg] had have [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children . |
| 2 | Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time . |
| 3 | Commentators suggested that the attempt had had the support of wealthy former politicians , whose ambitions had been foiled by Babangida 's refusal to allow the " old guard " of politicians to stand for office on the return to party politics . |
| 4 | The boat had had no luck on the West coast . |
| 5 | Modernism had had no truck with narrative momentum ; and Eliot 's Post-war plays , which began with The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) , were always more compelling as moral analysis than as plot . |
| 6 | In In re X ( A Student ) , 11 November 1991 , Brooke J. explained why that Act had had no effect on the jurisdiction of the Inns , subject to the supervision of the judges , to decide who were fit and proper persons to be admitted to the Inns for training . |
| 7 | Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner , then she 'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance . |
| 8 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 9 | Last December an appeal court ordered the retrial of a convicted murderer when it was revealed that his wife had had an affair with his lawyer . |
| 10 | In February 1942 , Captain Oswald Benton , a welfare officer , Royal Artillery , wrote to the county treasurer on behalf of one of his soldiers whose wife had had an operation at St. Peter 's , and who had received a bill for £1.4s.0d. ( which included £1.1s.0d. for the anaesthetic fee ) : |
| 11 | It was clear that the debtor had had no communication with his accountant . |
| 12 | Her father had had a link with Italy . |
| 13 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 14 | The MPG teachers tended to notice few changes ; they felt that they were still not involved in decision-making and , therefore , devolution had had no effect on their role in the school . |
| 15 | Already in Carolingian times the imperial army had had a nucleus of fully trained warriors who served their lord in exchange for holding substantial fiefs . |
| 16 | In the year 1981/82 it became clear that the evaluation project had had a number of ‘ spin-offs ’ , for instance : |
| 17 | Many of the older generation coming from a rural background had had no opportunity for training and so were limited in the type of employment open to them . |
| 18 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 19 | To borrow a phrase from a biography of Van Gogh , the writer had had the advantage of having the artist as a coauthor . |
| 20 | In the midst of all these , School had had the benefit of his being a Governor for 46 years ( he was first nominated by the Borough Council in 1923 ) and Chairman for eleven . |
| 21 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 22 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 23 | Before experiencing a Methodist conversion , Bamford senior had been a noted drinker and wrestler , but even at that time had had a taste for books . |
| 24 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |
| 25 | If the Leader of the House had had the foresight in those early days to see the merit in that legislation , he would not have felt it necessary tonight to move a savage guillotine motion to curtail debate on the measure . |
| 26 | Keith Rankin , representing Michael Lowther said his client had had a childhood of abuse and was of limited intelligence . |
| 27 | The TVS producer had had the idea of asking Hyacinth to play the role of ‘ guest interviewer ’ and had spent an hour or so that morning , showing her something of how it was done . |
| 28 | His mother had had no time for him , and his father disapproved of him . |
| 29 | Even the son had had a tang to him , although he had proved surprisingly hard to digest at the end . |