Example sentences of "[vb past] have have [art] " in BNC.

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1 All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went .
2 She looked around but could see nothing prepared for the arrival of a baby Maggie seemed to have had no nesting instincts at all .
3 In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it .
4 Even the Greatest himself , Cassius Clay , alias Muhammed Ali , who seemed to have had a highly successful career during which a minimal number of punches were landed to his head , has suffered a brain condition which it is difficult to believe is unconnected with his trade .
5 Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc .
6 The rogues of the piece were undoubtedly the well established firm of Hodder and Stoughton , who seemed to have had an unusual and complex system of their own .
7 Yet , judging by the earnest discussions going on around her , the melancholy theme seemed to have had the effect of switching everyone 's thoughts away from the actual tragedy that had happened in their midst .
8 Three of the five who had no visitors were said by the people we interviewed to have had no relatives .
9 Three shadow boxes Monday 's deaths column recorded the passing of Chris Hunter , who for donkeys years or so it seemed had had a sweet shop between our house and the football ground in Shildon .
10 Nixon had tried to govern without congress and Ford had been pathetically inconsequential ; Carter , in his memoirs , claimed to have had a reasonably good relationship with the legislature , but this was not a widely shared view .
11 Maradona scored against England in 1986 , accused of handling the ball he claimed to have had a little help from high places ( see remote control and questionable decisions ) .
12 Which Hollywood star once caused a commotion when she claimed to have had an affair with a Labour cabinet minister ?
13 A CORONER has said he was not prepared to accept some key evidence from a woman alleged to have had a love affair with Constable Allen Moore .
14 She submitted that the law built up through custom and practice appeared to have had no difficulty in affording to a child born after the death of its parent a right of action over the death .
15 Looking at my arms I could see that the mosquitoes appeared to have had a field day .
16 At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v.
17 Recently he had had to have a catheter fitted for some medical problem and because of his absconding behaviour , the nurses had hit on a really original wheeze — to force him to carry the slowly filling urine bag in one of those four-milk crates one sometimes sees on doorsteps .
18 They had had had a tremendous send-off on the Sunday from the Esplanade at Edinburgh Castle , including 40 cars from the MG club .
19 She sometimes had given him the spare front door key but he denied having had the key on the day of her death .
20 Protestant Unionists had begun to respond to this threat to their supremacy by organising a private army , the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) , said to have had the backing of the Conservative Party and the British military establishment .
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