Example sentences of "had had the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When she heard that a mere layman had had the effrontery to advise on civil service matters , she went to see the Minister on the following day to tender her resignation . |
| 4 | Dalziel 's gaze wandered suspiciously round the room as if seeking signs ‘ that someone had had the effrontery to deface the slightly peeling wall with festive decoration . |
| 5 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 6 | I had had the surgery and my surgeon had taken out ‘ all he could see ’ . |
| 7 | No : the revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the resources available to the forces for change , the unions , had been enough to enable them to seize and hold the means of production , and if they had had the will to employ those resources ; not as a thief in the night but in a scene of anarchy and dreadful confusion of which the French Revolution would have given but a faint anticipation . |
| 8 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 9 | Whoever he was , he had had the guts not to shout . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Joel had had the money right along . |
| 11 | So much for one reason why William Charles had had the wherewithal to prosper so quickly in his new surroundings ; but there was another , just as vital to his continuing success — he had made a prudent marriage . |
| 12 | The underlying inference was that Drew had had the pockets renewed because of some tell-tale stain . |
| 13 | Mean values were not significantly different ( Table I ) but the older women who had had the operation were more likely than their controls to report <5 defecations per week ( 27% v 9% , p<0.01 ) and also more likely to report <3 defecations per week ( 11% v 2% , p<0.025 ) . |
| 14 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 15 | A month ago Nutty had had the wires taken off her teeth . |
| 16 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Watson and Paul Cocker had had the offences hanging over their heads for a long time , adding : ‘ It was Darren Cocker 's godfather who was the tragic victim of crime . ’ |
| 17 | If the impoverished crofters of the Highlands and Islands and their ‘ young kilted boys and tartan-dressed girls ’ that ran alongside canals and coach routes ‘ rewarded by having money thrown at them ’ had had the ability and opportunity to read that last item , the Victorians might not have travelled through their territory with such confidence … |
| 18 | Thank the Goddess Zambia had had the sense to get out before some scuzzie had violated hir by more than just a beating . |
| 19 | After setting an Open championship tournament record 283 , Sarazen said it was because he had had the sense to listen to his caddie at every tricky point through the tournament , calling Daniels ' club selection ‘ brilliant ’ , and his understanding of Sarazen 's sometimes less-than-cautious temperament uncanny . |
| 20 | Her parents had had the sense to realise how unhappy she was , and had made alternative arrangements . |
| 21 | Clara had had the sense not to try to ask her mother about a possible purchase , as she could only too clearly imagine the responses to which such a request would expose her , and the abuse which would be cast upon those girls fortunate enough to have a use for party dresses . |
| 22 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |
| 23 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 24 | Here Brook interrupted , to make a dangerous claim that all 19th-century music was riddled with unnecessary repetition which current composers had had the sense to discard . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But he maintains that boxing is not his favourite sport , saying without hesitation : ‘ If my father had had the budget for it when I was young , I would have been doing motor racing . ’ |
| 27 | She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane . |
| 28 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 29 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 30 | She got into the back of the car , and was glad to see her unconscious had had the foresight to include a bar . |