Example sentences of "she had have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department .
2 She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way .
3 She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) .
4 She had had a gruelling day on top of a gruelling six months .
5 True , she had had a pleasant bed-sitting room , and Mrs White had cooked for her and always been welcoming , but on some cold summer evenings , sitting in her Lloyd Loom armchair by a gas fire , turned low for reasons of economy , Agnes had experienced some bleakness .
6 She had had a criminal abortion somewhere .
7 They had said at the school she had had a screaming session .
8 At eighteen — the period of the mousseline de soie dress — she had found herself hanging around a certain area of Twickenham , where they were then living , in the hopes of encountering the doctor 's son , with whom she had had a strangled conversation at some social gathering .
9 She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life .
10 What if she had had a threatening letter which worried her enough to make her turn to pills ? ’
11 Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change .
12 All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going .
13 Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States .
14 She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor .
15 ‘ She said she had had a wonderful time and liked the people of Merseyside , so I hope this unfortunate incident does n't remain in her mind . ’
16 All this seems a very curious — indeed an eccentric — arrangement on the part of Nature who , if she had had a proper training in the theory of fibrous composite materials , would surely have known better .
17 There was one brief moment while she stood illuminated thus theatrically , and still not at all comprehending that the group which confronted her had had a close brush with tragedy .
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