Example sentences of "had have [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 2 | Of the players , Gooch in particular had had a good tour and was really beginning to fulfil his potential , but the difference between the two bowling attacks seemed just to be increasing . |
| 3 | He was a contented man for he had a good wife , a prosperous farm in Upper Caversham some four miles from Reading market , had had a good season and a financially successful day . |
| 4 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 5 | They had had a pleasant walk and an easy supper . |
| 6 | The first British administrator of Tanganyika Masailand was Colonel E.D. Browne , who had been Assistant District Commissioner at Laikipia at the time of the second Masai move in 1911–13 , and who came down to Tanganyika convinced that the Kenya Masai had had a rotten deal and determined to see that the Tanganyika Masai got a better one . |
| 7 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 8 | In a series of 141 patients who had had a prophylactic colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis , five patients had a history of acute pancreatitis . |
| 9 | She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I could see the room beginning to spin as though I had had a dreadful shock or a moment of unbearable fear . |
| 12 | From the mid-sixties I had had a homosexual identity and I did say to people that I was homosexual ; but in the early seventies that had a completely different meaning . |
| 13 | Gwendolen had had a distressing day and was making up for it with several glasses of this delightfully spicy lemonade . |
| 14 | Another interesting case is that of a little boy who had had a difficult birth and had been left slightly spastic . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal upheld the defendant 's conviction because there was ample evidence that a purchaser would understand the description ‘ new ’ to indicate that the vehicle had had no previous owner and no previous registered keeper . |
| 16 | 390 the wife had had no independent advice but she did , as the jury found , understood what she was doing . |
| 17 | On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident . |
| 18 | He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary . |
| 19 | It must have been obvious to the jury that these witnesses were in a special position , one as the husband of a woman with whom the defendant had had an intimate relationship and the other as the sister of the deceased , whom the defendant had shot , according to himself , accidentally . |
| 20 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 21 | But you think it had had a good kicking or something , would n't you ? |