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

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1 Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children .
2 Commissioners were accordingly appointed to make perambulations in the forests of Devon and Surrey : they were to be returned into the Chancery before Christmas , but were not to be put into effect until the officers of the central administration had had an opportunity of comparing them with the earlier perambulations of Edward I 's time .
3 On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road .
4 It was absurd ; if Parkes had had a gun it would n't have been a .22 .
5 The year before , 1820 , Joss had had an accident with gunpowder , which , although his eyes escaped injury , disfigured his face , so that he looked ‘ like an old man of 60 . ’
6 For a minute I thought my luck had changed and something good had happened , like Malpass had had a heart attack and I had a corpse in the back .
7 Ludens knew that Marcus had spent part of his childhood in London but could elicit no information about this interesting period , except that his parents had had a flat in Knightsbridge .
8 The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would .
9 The Marshal had called back a number of times and each time the woman 's sobs had had a note of triumph in them .
10 Novell Inc chief Ray Noorda 's contribution to Bill Gates ephemera is the comment after their two companies had had a disagreement : ‘ To have a heart-to-heart with someone , you 've got to have two hearts … ‘
11 The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’
12 Mesrine had had a room by the tube station .
13 Delighted , Benn told a refusenik rally that if the striking miners had had a paper like the Wapping Post they would have won .
14 Miss Martindale had had a school , but her rigid ideas and stern manner had frightened the children , and their parents had taken them away .
15 Nigel had had a brain haemorrhage .
16 One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack .
17 But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim .
18 Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ?
19 I presumed that Prentice had had a word in somebody 's shell-like , or maybe nobody was very interested .
20 He and Rory had had a drink the night before , and Rory confessed he 'd driven up from Belleeks early to cruise around Cultra and reconnoitre .
21 She preferred to be left alone to handle her problem with Silvia — at least until Silvia had had a chance to keep her word .
22 A prominent man , Friends — Russians in other words — and so skilled men , wallpaper , paint , gold leaf — and fine linen instantly available ; she smiled as she wondered whether Bodo had had a hand in it .
23 It appeared that once , and once only , Mr Donovan had had a success .
24 Sylvia had to have a background story , and she enjoyed making up tall tales to tell anybody she was unlikely to meet again .
25 He said he and his wife , Tracie , and their sons Michael , ten , and Dale had had a lie down .
26 and I said I said to Bob I said well , you know said well had n't you better get cos Shirley had had a go at Bob first off , before when , when I went in there first thing .
27 The archer had to have a face .
28 Dexter had seen the look many times before : Blanche had had an idea .
29 Last December an appeal court ordered the retrial of a convicted murderer when it was revealed that his wife had had an affair with his lawyer .
30 In February 1942 , Captain Oswald Benton , a welfare officer , Royal Artillery , wrote to the county treasurer on behalf of one of his soldiers whose wife had had an operation at St. Peter 's , and who had received a bill for £1.4s.0d. ( which included £1.1s.0d. for the anaesthetic fee ) :
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