Example sentences of "[pers pn] had have [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction .
2 you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs
3 I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels .
4 so I mean she 's , she 's she 's and I said to her when when all the things were going wrong with I had to have a lot of chats with her and said well you you 've got to prove that you can rebound from this
5 I had to have a cast on it and I could n't play guitar at all in any fashion .
6 I had to have an explanation for his team 's strange behaviour .
7 I had to have the bedding in here .
8 He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun .
9 That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately .
10 I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done .
11 Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus .
12 If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me .
13 Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting .
14 I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed .
15 I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg .
16 I had had no intention of touching it while Charlie Trumper was still away at war , until some five months later Kitty Trumper visited me in Romford .
17 ‘ I would n't ever have been so intimate with you if I had had an obligation to someone else .
18 Before this , however , Ron and I had had an offer from Lord Brabourne of further Mountbatten film .
19 Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants .
20 I must repeat , however , that , if I had had the information in the form in which it was requested , I would have given it .
21 Yes so that 's why she had to have a doctor for that one .
22 And then when I went to talk to the sister , me , you know I fuck when I rang she was she had to have an operation on her knee , the whole kneecap was broke .
23 Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine .
24 Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath .
25 She had had a word about this girl , Monica ; there was really nothing , nothing at all .
26 When she first came to the sand , a long time ago , she had had a pocketful of pills and squeezers , but she had lost interest in them .
27 Shamefully , she had had a vision of his body naked , even before they had gone to bed together , her first intimation that she was beginning to feel more for him than she ought , for the vision had not frightened but intrigued her .
28 It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left .
29 At a guess , she had had a tiff with Mr Carson .
30 One girl asked another if she had had a lesson on computers that afternoon and when her friend replied in the affirmative her short comment was ‘ Dead boring , is n't it ? ’
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