Example sentences of "had have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even to get this much he had had to agree to a number of statutes which he construed as so prejudicial that he vowed to repeal them as soon as possible . |
| 2 | They would have been less well advised to move from temporary obligation to redemption if they had had to wait for the money which the peasants owed them , but the government realized that peasants were in no position to redeem their obligations overnight and advanced most of the money to which nobles were entitled in the form of interest-bearing bonds . |
| 3 | Raffaella and her elder brother had had to flee to the mountains after some unspecified trouble with the Germans and had joined a local band of partisans . |
| 4 | Against landowners whose own fathers had had to flee from the Crown 's killers in ‘ Forty-six ? |
| 5 | Gagarin had had to search into the past for a word which perhaps he had heard from his granny ! |
| 6 | Her husband , working in England , was not with her , and she had had to go through the agony of 27 February alone . |
| 7 | Jonas Hamilton 's health had deteriorated and he had had to go to the States for tests . |
| 8 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 9 | He had had to walk to the Falcon Gate . |
| 10 | He knew nothing , nothing , of what Sally-Anne had had to suffer at the hands of one of the monsters who controlled … what were his weaselling words ? … the mechanism . |
| 11 | Open-mouthed , Scarlet had followed their progress through bread bin , fridge and pantry and , all too frequently , had had to fly to the shops to replenish her stores before Brian could become aware of the ravages . |
| 12 | Perkin had had to get over the shock of finding my familiar ski-jacket and boots in the boathouse and then the far worse shock of the cataclysmic reversal of his scheme when Harry and I both lived . |
| 13 | Ace had had to break into an asteroid cruncher once , when she 'd worked security for a mining corporation : the big doors could usually be operated from an external control panel near the front of the hull . |
| 14 | She went into the tiny pantry and busied herself , preparing the ingredients she had had brought from the kitchen only an hour before . |
| 15 | As luck would have it , Jean-Claude found he needed some old scores he had put to one side as they were too heavy to bring along with everything else we had had to load on the motor cycle . |
| 16 | I made the choice at random , the sole criterion being that a book had to have come from a library and have a recognisable sign of its origin . |
| 17 | From the angle at which the bullet had penetrated the keg it had to have come from the direction of the shed . |