Example sentences of "[pers pn] had have a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since then I had had a healing , been taking massive doses of vitamin C , regular doses of vitamin A and B and supplements of zinc and selenium , eating my ‘ stay-well ’ diet and doing my visualization . |
| 32 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 33 | I considered I had had a sheltered upbringing — perhaps ‘ genteel ’ is nearer the mark — but she came from the world of country weekends , day and night nurseries , nannies , and never having to worry about where next week 's housekeeping money was coming from , or having to do the washing up . |
| 34 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 35 | In my grandmother 's house I had had a big bedroom ; here I had to share . |
| 36 | I had had a very successful indoor season , set a British indoor record at 200 metres and a personal best at 60 metres , and gained my first individual international selection . |
| 37 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 38 | They were all very heartened that someone was at last taking an interest : I only wish I had had a tape recorder ! |
| 39 | My letter was published in full , and I was pleased with myself , for two good reasons : my first literary effort had been accepted ; and I had had a good swipe at the evils of fascism , judging by the stream of supporting letters which followed . |
| 40 | From the mid-sixties I had had a homosexual identity and I did say to people that I was homosexual ; but in the early seventies that had a completely different meaning . |
| 41 | After the hearing Dennett said : ‘ I had had a drink . |
| 42 | If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it . |
| 43 | So I wanted to get that memory out of the way and I was just happy that I had had a better game ’ . |
| 44 | ‘ … as an in-patient in hospitals on several occasions myself I had had a more appetising variation of diet . |
| 45 | Over the years , in my role as home tutor to his mother , I had had a privileged relationship with Balbinder and his family . |
| 46 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 47 | Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary . |
| 48 | I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done . |
| 49 | I reckon if I had had a flat and everything I could have given it a try . |
| 50 | I had had a sudden image of Syl bringing me breakfast in a bed which we had shared , and I heard myself saying aloud , ‘ No ! ’ |
| 51 | I could see the room beginning to spin as though I had had a dreadful shock or a moment of unbearable fear . |
| 52 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
| 53 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 54 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 55 | If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me . |
| 56 | ‘ If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’ |
| 57 | The funny thing was this happened yards from where I had had a very bad motorcycle crash ten years before . |
| 58 | She had had a |
| 59 | Whether she had had a warning or what . |
| 60 | Then , in February last year , she had to have a kidney removed . |