Example sentences of "had have [noun] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been very hot all day ; they had had exams in the morning and she had done badly because she felt so tired . |
| 2 | Just over a third , 35 per cent , of those who had lived in an old people 's home for a year or more had had help from a nurse who visited the home in the year before they died . |
| 3 | All three denied the allegations , although Viehweger resigned on Sept. 28 , maintaining that this did not imply his guilt but admitting that he had had contact with the Stasi . |
| 4 | First , we had the idea one autumn of writing to all those who had been bereaved in the past three years and had had contact with the church . |
| 5 | Nevertheless a high number had had contact with the Board probably because of the method of selecting prospective farms . |
| 6 | Already I had had presentiments of the satisfaction I would feel when I eventually got the bag home — the huge relief as I unpacked my treasures . |
| 7 | He acknowledged that his marriage had had difficulties in the past , and conceded " wrongdoing " and " causing pain " within it , but insisted that it was now stable and strong . |
| 8 | These loopholes remain despite the concern of some judges such as Mr Justice Boreham , who once said in judgment ‘ I know a little about life and even if [ the accused ] had had intercourse with the girl before , he does not have the prescriptive right to it thereafter . |
| 9 | It came as a shock , but it was also confirmation of the feeling she had had back at the restaurant when the man , Karr , had spoken to her . |
| 10 | This was because he had had TB at the end of the Great War , ( the First World War ) and any cold was liable to turn to pleurisy . |
| 11 | Rose had had fun with a boy of her own age . |
| 12 | We had had intimations from the case studies that , despite its fame nationally within the ‘ school self-evaluation movement ’ , the booklet was not universally well known amongst the LEA 's teaching force . |
| 13 | He felt responsible for their separation and he knew that when he had had problems in the past , his parents had stopped arguing so much and pulled together to help him . |
| 14 | Ronald had had problems in the past but he was not the villain he was made out to be during the court case . |
| 15 | His main aim in these months was to reconcile and renew the nation : hence no revolution , but most of the reforms that the CNR had wanted ; hence a purge , but not the wholesale purge of all who had had dealings with the Germans or with Vichy ; hence a referendum and free elections , but no plebiscite ( whatever his opponents alleged , the referendum of October 1945 was not a true plebiscite ) ; hence the presidency but no Gaullist party . |
| 16 | He had had dealings with the police in many countries . |
| 17 | It turned out that she had had palpitations in the past but had forgotten about them . |
| 18 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 19 | If all these subjects had had endometriosis at the time of removal the rate in current and recent users would rise to 0.42 per 1000 woman years ( from 0.22 ) and the relative risk would be non-significant at 0.7 ( from 0.4 ) . |
| 20 | It was the first time that Venezuela had had recourse to the IMF . |
| 21 | It was apparent from elsewhere in the responses that four Polytechnics and five Colleges had had cuts in the area of Language in Education , and that one College and one Polytechnic had had increases in provisions within the previous five years . |
| 22 | Who he had had dinner with the night before , and what , if anything , he thought about them . |
| 23 | According to Rahab , the Jericho prostitute , the people of her city had had news of the way the Israelites had come out of Egypt , and their hearts had melted and their courage had evaporated away ( Josh. |
| 24 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 25 | ‘ To see the baby , ’ had been the bait , and so she had had tea with the Baileys and the baby , whom Mrs Bailey had adopted — a piece of altruism which staggered Sally-Anne , who thought that Mrs Bailey had enough to do on too little with her own brood . |
| 26 | They had had tea at the Ritz and drinks at the Café Royal , and then more drinks at Lyons ' Corner House in Coventry Street because they were fed up with swish places and Lyons ' seemed more like home . |
| 27 | Only now , with the promise of the strength she might give him , could he afford the luxury of thinking so closely about himself ( you had to have armour in the city , you had to know where you stood ) . |
| 28 | For the Collector knew that he had to have earth as a cushion against the enemy cannons ; brickwork or masonry splinters or cracks , wood is useless ; only earth is capable of gulping down cannon balls without distress . |
| 29 | Thus the County Council as Transport Authority and its subordinate , the Transport Executive , had to have regard to the promotion of ‘ a properly integrated and efficient system of public transport to meet the needs of that area with due regard to the town planning and traffic and parking policies ’ of the other councils . |
| 30 | However Lord Denning was quick to point out that although local authorities had to have regard to the Code , they could depart from it if they thought fit . |