Example sentences of "had have [art] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it . |
| 3 | Ken replied , Orton later wrote in his own diary , that he had had a similar experience in Beirut and had ‘ paid twelve guineas a night for the privilege . ’ |
| 4 | He had had a personal hand in the arrest of Ned Turner . |
| 5 | I was sure he had had a gloating look in his eyes when he found out I had been robbed . |
| 6 | Deborah 's parents had had a tumultuous relationship in which frequent violent arguments would be followed by tender love scenes . |
| 7 | But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms . |
| 8 | I heard this morning on Sky that DOL had had a successful comeback in the reserves . |
| 9 | Matza ( 1969 ) was particularly influential in proposing that the correctionalist stance had had a distorting effect in criminology , and in advocating an alternative . |
| 10 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 11 | Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace . |
| 12 | A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital . |
| 15 | If the teacher had had no obvious part in planning or organising an activity , it was difficult to see what might be learnt from it that would be of help to other teachers . |
| 16 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 17 | Exley , at 30 almost a veteran , but who had had an impressive run in this year 's championships , vowed : ‘ I 'll be back next year and if I meet Eric I 'll beat him . ’ |
| 18 | Bracewell , who received the injury in an accidental clash with Gavin Peacock in the derby game at Newcastle last month , played in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich City , but missed the midweek defeat at Leicester last week when he had to have a slight blockage in his nose cleared . |