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 ? ’ |