Example sentences of "had have [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 But perhaps the joke had had a serious point to it too , or at any rate a serious side-effect : it had enabled Hilda to get her side of the story over to posterity .
2 Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’
3 It had been claimed that Mrs McWilliams had had an allergic reaction to the drugs and she had alleged negligence by the anaesthetist .
4 I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’
5 It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even .
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