Example sentences of "[pers pn] had have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had to have Assam tea ( with a touch of lapsang souchong ) available at all times during rehearsal .
2 He 'd shot the question at me so unexpectedly I had to have time to recover .
3 I had to have plastic surgery to my face .
4 Yeah , I used to go down to and I used to pass these fish shops , I had to have fish and chips
5 And took me over there and my , I had to have argument with my mum .
6 By the time I had had breakfast and done the morning 's chores it was after eleven and , though the rain was letting up , it was still wet enough to keep anyone indoors who did n't have to go out .
7 Even if I had had pencil and paper on me , I would not have cared to leave a note where someone else might see it first .
8 If only , thought Robert , I had had teachers like that .
9 I remarked on the truculence , boorishness and dishonesty which I had encountered , routinely , in the hotel and in restaurants ; indeed , whenever I had had dealings with anyone in a public capacity .
10 You know , I was embarrassed to tell my mother that I was pregnant , because it showed that I had had sex .
11 Before , I had had Daisy : when I had lost her , I had lost both sister and friend .
12 I realized then just how many times , over the months , I had had evidence of this fear , and how careful I had always been to avoid doing or saying anything that could threaten the bastions he erected to guard his frail defences .
13 Already I had had presentiments of the satisfaction I would feel when I eventually got the bag home — the huge relief as I unpacked my treasures .
14 I was rather surprised , as we were not in the habit of writing to each other , and I had had dinner with him the night before .
15 If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available .
16 In The Quick and the Dead , I had had Richie Quick come up against a similar operator .
17 Only then I had had Irina to share things with and Aunt Anna to turn to .
18 I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match .
19 I would have gladly done so , if I had had time .
20 It is true , these same trivial errors did cause me some anxiety at first , but once I had had time to diagnose them correctly as symptoms of nothing more than a straightforward staff shortage , I have refrained from giving them much thought .
21 ‘ No ; the police came to see me before I had had time to make other arrangements .
22 Besides , I had had time to pick up the late edition .
23 But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine .
24 She had to have money .
25 She had to have money .
26 Sometimes she had to have water fetched from miles up in the mountain .
27 She must 've , she had terrific spirit cos when she had to have breast cancer operation I ca n't
28 It came as a shock , but it was also confirmation of the feeling she had had back at the restaurant when the man , Karr , had spoken to her .
29 She could not even say she truly felt she had had Ferdinando with her those four months .
30 She was told she had had intercourse with an eight-year-old boy .
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