Example sentences of "they had had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had had occasional disputes as all families do but none had been damaging . |
| 2 | When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King . |
| 3 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
| 4 | that they had had insufficient feedback ; |
| 5 | But Bosnian Serbs refused to let the convoy pass , saying they had had insufficient advance notice , said Judith Kumin of the United Nations ' High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgrade . |
| 6 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 7 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
| 8 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
| 9 | His words were ringing in her ears now although they had had little impact before . |
| 10 | What would Wales have achieved 20 years ago if they had had endless squad sessions , trips to Lanzarote , 2–3 days a week off to train , personal fitness plans , etc. ? |
| 11 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 12 | In passing she had mentioned once that she missed the fox terrier , Rex , they had had many years ago as children . |
| 13 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 14 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 15 | They had had two large whiskies in the bar downstairs , and they were now near the end of a bottle of Château Margaux . |
| 16 | They were excluded if they had been treated with steroids , cytotoxic drugs , antibiotics , anti-ulcer drugs , or if they had had gastroduodenal surgery . |
| 17 | Billy had been a close friend for over a year now and they had had some good times together . |
| 18 | Although they had had several centuries to grow into the landscape , they still represented a foreign intrusion for many increasingly xenophobic Englishmen , and the growing attack on their position made little real attempt to differentiate between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ houses . |
| 19 | They had had several children , of all of whom but the eldest Arthur was the father . |
| 20 | Since my last visit they had had another go . |
| 21 | It is rugby 's version of the north-south divide , given further emphasis when last season 's England captains Will Carling and Rob Andrew , who play for Harlequins and Wasps respectively , decided they had had enough of travelling and declared for London . |
| 22 | She tried to tell Maud and Enid , but they had had enough of frog stories , particularly as Mildred had actually admitted to them , at the time , that the story she had told Sybil was not true . |
| 23 | By the time she reached Venice , they had had enough : ‘ they would not go with her for a hundred pound ’ , and left her on her own . |
| 24 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 25 | They did so in the face of widespread steel closures , rising unemployment , and knowledge about their poor prospects of re-employment , or they had had enough of work and felt they deserved a rest . |
| 26 | Sikhs decided they had had enough . |
| 27 | Neither would be going to university ; they had had enough of studying . |
| 28 | If she decided that they had had enough of sightseeing or whatever , then they had had enough . |
| 29 | If she decided that they had had enough of sightseeing or whatever , then they had had enough . |
| 30 | They had had enough of fighting , no matter against whom . |