Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had rarely had reason to enter my father 's room prior to this occasion and I was newly struck by the smallness and starkness of it . |
| 2 | But I had meanwhile had time to think . |
| 3 | I had always had difficulty with the idea of a long-bearded god sitting on a throne on high , but because it came in the form it did , as an energy , I had no difficulty with it … |
| 4 | I had hardly had time to consider this problem : rip P J O'Rourke off , or get dressed , before the pilot jerked us into a vertical dive ? |
| 5 | Didsbury , St Osyth 's , Worcester and others which had previously had discussions with the CNAA were either already back in discussion , or were soon to be so . |
| 6 | She had been so terrifically busy lately that she had scarcely had time to go near the beach , except for odd moments snatched while she was shopping . |
| 7 | She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there . |
| 8 | She had nearly had heart failure at the thought of Garry going up there . |
| 9 | She had already had occasion to notice Katherine 's skills , skills with arrangement , with colours and shape . |
| 10 | She had just had puppies . |
| 11 | She had just had puppies . |
| 12 | With a passion , she realised now as every defence she had ever had fell away from her , and she felt the hatred swing round to reveal the love , deep and very passionate indeed . |
| 13 | But she knew in her heart that , if she had ever had Jonathon , she had lost him for good . |
| 14 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 15 | She had never had time to think about love before , had thought that Bruno had burned that out of her . |
| 16 | But she had never had confirmation of his death , as she had had of those of his parents and hers . |
| 17 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 18 | She had only had dinner with him once , which hardly constituted an exclusive relationship . |
| 19 | Still she did n't reply , unsure how to put her thoughts into words , for she had indeed had doubts about her sister adapting to the environment . |
| 20 | This comparison , however , does not take into account the duration of follow up , and the number of patients who had previously had recurrence is too small to permit valid conclusions from a multivariate analysis . |
| 21 | Of the six patients who had previously had gall stone recurrence , five ( 83% ) developed a further recurrence during the trial compared wth 16 recurrences in the 76 patients who had not previously had recurrent stones ( 21% ) . |
| 22 | The only patient who had previously had gall stone recurrence , but who did not experience a further recurrence , had taken NSAIDs regularly . |
| 23 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 24 | In 10 patients who had met the criteria for ulcerative colitis in 1978 the diagnosis was later changed to Crohn 's disease ; the diagnosis was changed to ulcerative colitis in three patients who had originally had Crohn 's disease diagnosed . |
| 25 | The victims ranged from intellectuals , university professors whose advice had been sought by the government , and distinguished scientists who had once had associations with " left-wing " organizations , to writers , broadcasters and Hollywood actors and directors . |
| 26 | After calling for some ice-cubes which we popped into the straight Pernod , we drank them down , with predictably weird results ( we had already had Dexedrine ) . |
| 27 | Perhaps we do : I thought we had already had eyes for several million years . |
| 28 | ‘ We had just had dinner , ’ Mr Ellis told detectives . |
| 29 | This small act of concealment had partly stemmed from the fact that she herself had never had money . |
| 30 | It was obvious they had already had plenty to drink . |