Example sentences of "[pron] had have the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had to have the bedding in here .
2 I had had the surgery and my surgeon had taken out ‘ all he could see ’ .
3 Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants .
4 I would have done it if I had had the chance , but somebody got there first .
5 If I had had the baby , I would never have been able to pick up my career again . ’
6 I must repeat , however , that , if I had had the information in the form in which it was requested , I would have given it .
7 There I had had the right to follow my own devices throughout the day .
8 Dalziel 's gaze wandered suspiciously round the room as if seeking signs ‘ that someone had had the effrontery to deface the slightly peeling wall with festive decoration .
9 It only remains to emphasise that the new Parliamentary Labour Party was socially far more representative of the country as a whole than the party of 1935 onwards , and that its leadership , which had had the experience of participation in government during the war , was able to assume the reins of office without any of the difficulties that Ramsay MacDonald encountered in forming his minority governments in 1924 and 1929 .
10 This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck .
11 And then she had to have the operation to get her hip fixed
12 She had had the benefit of having worked in an hotel after all .
13 ‘ No ! ’ the Doctor said , and at the same time Bernice was trying to remember exactly when she had had the conversation that she had just remembered so clearly .
14 What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path …
15 No-one need ever know she had had the facelift if she chose not to tell them .
16 She turned her back on him , unlocking the inner door , and as the warmth from the storage heaters wafted out to greet them she thanked God that she had had the foresight to leave them on — she did n't think she had been properly warm since reading the newspaper this afternoon — no , not even on the plane .
17 Earlier , she had had the impression she was alone with her enemy .
18 She had the ability and now she had had the break .
19 The castle or the fortified town restricted the movements of mobile field armies ; in particular , it was effective against the rapid raids of Magyars , with their lightly armed mounted archers , or the Vikings , with their swift ships , who had had the advantage of striking rapidly and ranging far .
20 Mean values were not significantly different ( Table I ) but the older women who had had the operation were more likely than their controls to report <5 defecations per week ( 27% v 9% , p<0.01 ) and also more likely to report <3 defecations per week ( 11% v 2% , p<0.025 ) .
21 Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’
22 Lucky to the extent of meeting a friend who had had the foresight to order a bottle of champagne for the interval .
23 Moreover , it suggested that foster parents who had had the care of a child for five years or more should be able to apply for an adoption order without risk of removal by parents before a hearing .
24 Sailors who had had the ship shot out from under them because of Mountbatten 's recklessness signed up for another tour , such were the inspirational qualities he possessed .
25 He had been at the head of the factional politics of Edward II 's middle years , and his rapid rise and precipitate fall typified the fate of others who had had the misfortune to enjoy Edward 's patronage .
26 Louise was equally anxious to see this man who had had the power to persuade her niece to go against her upbringing and character and behave so recklessly after such a brief acquaintance .
27 But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature …
28 He never knocked his origins in American racing , but also he knew damned well that technologically America was behind and that in America you could do spectacular things but in grand prix racing you needed savvy , experience , strategy ; you had to have the smarts .
29 Oh no they did n't allow that you had to have the book .
30 It was the babies you see that they were Well you had to have the doctor to you .
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