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

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1 Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department .
2 She had had a long treatment session , and then decided , possibly over-ambitiously , to visit her brother for tea , walking part of the way .
3 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 ) .
4 She had had a gruelling day on top of a gruelling six months .
5 True , she had had a pleasant bed-sitting room , and Mrs White had cooked for her and always been welcoming , but on some cold summer evenings , sitting in her Lloyd Loom armchair by a gas fire , turned low for reasons of economy , Agnes had experienced some bleakness .
6 She had had a criminal abortion somewhere .
7 They had said at the school she had had a screaming session .
8 At eighteen — the period of the mousseline de soie dress — she had found herself hanging around a certain area of Twickenham , where they were then living , in the hopes of encountering the doctor 's son , with whom she had had a strangled conversation at some social gathering .
9 She gave this powerful sense of her character 's emotional repression , and the sense was there that she had had a hard life .
10 What if she had had a threatening letter which worried her enough to make her turn to pills ? ’
11 Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change .
12 All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going .
13 Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States .
14 She had had a wonderful time and took an extra turn of the floor .
15 ‘ 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital .
18 She had had no previous treatment for any emotional difficulties .
19 She said she had had no bad modelling experiences but that running around Ravenhill at a recent Ulster rugby game against Australia in front of 15,000 whistling fans had proved ‘ very embarrassing ’ .
20 The reason in both cases why the security given was unenforceable was that ( a ) the security was given by the wife of the debtor , ( b ) the creditor knew of the relationship , ( c ) the creditor had done nothing to ensure that the wife understand the transaction , ( d ) the wife did not properly understand the transaction , and ( e ) she had had no independent advice .
21 Although Britain had long had trading connections with these areas , hitherto she had had no territorial ambitions there .
22 She had had the tiresome habit of subjecting her speech-writers to a sixth-form question and answer session along the lines of , ‘ Tell me Chris , what do you mean by ‘ liberty ’ ? ’ and it was not until the welcome arrival of a cheerful Denis at two-thirty in the morning that she could be persuaded to go to bed .
23 Early on in the preparations , she had had an inexplicable change of heart and remained committed .
24 She had had an unpleasant feeling it might have been her .
25 We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant .
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