Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] had have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To borrow a phrase from a biography of Van Gogh , the writer had had the advantage of having the artist as a coauthor . |
| 3 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
| 4 | Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 7 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 8 | The boat had had no luck on the West coast . |
| 9 | On the facts of the case the rules of natural justice had been broken because the constable had had no opportunity to comment upon the allegations made against him . |
| 10 | A funeral procession from the workhouse had had the temerity to pass through his Lordship 's private grounds , thereby producing feelings of outrage . |
| 11 | He said the Chancellor had had no choice but to put interest rates up last week . |
| 12 | Mr Portillo said the Chancellor had had no option but to increase taxes to curb ballooning Government borrowing . |
| 13 | Shortly thereafter cracks began to appear in the house both internally and externally and the purchaser had to have the house underpinned at a cost of £1,444 and had obtained estimates of between £1,500 and 12,000 for repairs to the superstructure . |
| 14 | But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim . |
| 15 | The archer had to have a face . |
| 16 | It was clear that the debtor had had no communication with his accountant . |
| 17 | The complaint , filed on 19 December , stated that the government had had a duty to inform Pan Am of information in its possession that a terrorist organization was planning to place a bomb on a Pan Am flight from either Frankfurt or London , specifically on Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 , and had ‘ negligently failed to inform Pan Am ’ . |
| 18 | The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England . |
| 19 | Presumably the box had to have a master . |
| 20 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 21 | During 1973–5 , in the wake of the oil crisis and the Middle East War , the company had had a borrowing facility from the Midland Bank of £100,000 yet they were , in fact , overdrawn by some £300,000 . |
| 22 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 23 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) . |
| 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 | Even the son had had a tang to him , although he had proved surprisingly hard to digest at the end . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Archbishop Ralph 's eloquent letter to the pope had had no effect ; St Augustine 's was throwing off the restraints that their neighbours had succeeded in imposing on them in the past ; and York was poised for a final victory in the matter of the primacy . |
| 28 | Cromwell had seen that while a monarch with some claim to divine authority could rule three separate kingdoms separately by virtue of his three separate crowns , a republic had to have a parliament that united all of the British Isles . |