Example sentences of "had have [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 2 | Patients sought a declaration that the Secretary of State and health authorities were in breach of duty as they had had to wait an unreasonable time , because of a decision not to build a new block for a hospital on grounds of cost . |
| 3 | Basil had had to choose a minor language as part of his Classical Philology course . |
| 4 | Once , in the early days , it had failed completely , and sometimes I had had to take a double dose before I changed into Hyde . |
| 5 | Heavily in debt to certain members of his nobility and to routier captains , and let down by his Castilian ally , he had had to seek the financial resources with which to pay for his Spanish expedition . |
| 6 | His voice was harsh and nasal , as if it had had to fight a stiff battle around the bridge of his nose before it had been able to emerge at all . |
| 7 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 8 | It was in the 2nd round of the FA Cup in December 1937 when the Palace had had to make the long trip to Accrington on one of the rare times when the draw for this round was not made on a geographical basis . |
| 9 | I calculated that if Charlie 's train had arrived at King 's Cross on time that morning , he should have already reached Chelsea by now , even if he had had to cover the entire journey on foot . |
| 10 | And to join the group you had to have killed a German soldier . |