Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had have a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
2 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
3 | But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim . |
4 | The archer had to have a face . |
5 | The complaint , filed on 19 December , stated that the government had had a duty to inform Pan Am of information in its possession that a terrorist organization was planning to place a bomb on a Pan Am flight from either Frankfurt or London , specifically on Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 , and had ‘ negligently failed to inform Pan Am ’ . |
6 | The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England . |
7 | Presumably the box had to have a master . |
8 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
9 | During 1973–5 , in the wake of the oil crisis and the Middle East War , the company had had a borrowing facility from the Midland Bank of £100,000 yet they were , in fact , overdrawn by some £300,000 . |
10 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
11 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |
12 | Even the son had had a tang to him , although he had proved surprisingly hard to digest at the end . |