Example sentences of "[noun sg] had have a " in BNC.

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1 Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured .
2 On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road .
3 Punk rock had had a purging effect on pop music ; clearing out the old to make way for the new .
4 Although the royalists later alleged that the rebels had that morning received ‘ a double portion of oatmeal and whisky for incouragement ’ and that a ‘ graite many … that we took prisoners were drunk ’ , these must have been a fortunate minority , but everyone agrees that the prospect of action had had a reviving effect on even the hungriest and weariest .
5 He threw the hoe to the ground , hoped that at least the pig had had a good meal , and want back inside his church .
6 It was apparent to Cassie that the discovery that she wore very little beneath her outer clothing had had a powerfully erotic effect upon him , and now he pushed aside the bodice and gazed at her breast , at the same time remarking appreciatively : ‘ You 're an astonishing girl , Cassie .
7 A week later it seemed as if Evelyn 's plan had had a miraculously swift outcome .
8 Strawberry had had a bad time .
9 One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack .
10 Angel had had a magical childhood , bucking the system at the smart Buenos Aires boys ' school of Champagnat and living during the term time in a large house in the Avenidad del Libertador .
11 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 .
12 Soon after Presley died , local coroner Dr Jerry Francisco went on television to tell a grieving world that the singer had had a massive heart attack , which was supposedly confirmed by the post-mortem examination .
13 But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim .
14 Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ?
15 They had not ill-treated him in prison , but the fact that his future had been so very much in danger had had a tremendous influence on his morale .
16 Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty .
17 In London , the combination of exceptionally low community charge levels and big swings to the Conservatives in Wandsworth and Westminster and , conversely , an almost equally poor Labour performance in charge-capped Brent and Hammersmith and Fulham , seemed to provide prima facie evidence that the poll tax had had a significant impact on behaviour .
18 In Mr Bullins 's opinion , the war had had a regrettable effect upon Oxford , and even upon Magdalen .
19 The war had had a differential impact on the economies , with Belgium much less adversely affected than the Netherlands .
20 The archer had to have a face .
21 I wanted Duke Michael to think that I was still very ill , so we told the newspapers that the King had had a very serious accident .
22 Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day .
23 The long night had had a result ; he was back in control again .
24 I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear .
25 On the whole , her father had had a very easy life of it , too easy .
26 Her father had had a link with Italy .
27 The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line .
28 My passenger had had a lucky escape that night ; he had used his wits well and survived another fight .
29 Before he went to the hospital , John Coffin had had a telephone call from his current girlfriend .
30 Matza ( 1969 ) was particularly influential in proposing that the correctionalist stance had had a distorting effect in criminology , and in advocating an alternative .
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