Example sentences of "[pers pn] had have an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass .
2 Early on in the preparations , she had had an inexplicable change of heart and remained committed .
3 She had had an unpleasant feeling it might have been her .
4 We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant .
5 For plotting a course you had to have an accurate speedometer .
6 He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary .
7 In 1987 14 per cent of the population of Great Britain , 16 per cent of females and 12 per cent of males , reported that they had had an acute health episode in the previous 14 days .
8 Having attempted to define the campaign 's agenda on the basis of " family values " , Bush was also severely embarrassed by a front page story carried in the New York Post on Aug. 11 which alleged that he had had an extra-marital affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald , a former personal assistant and a current protocol officer in the State Department .
9 He had had an unhappy home life as a child and his youth was marked by a certain amount of delinquency .
10 He had had an English half-sister , much older than him .
11 He had to have an ulterior motive .
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