Example sentences of "[noun] had have an [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Dexter had seen the look many times before : Blanche had had an idea . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) : |
| 7 | ‘ David Parkin had had an affair with you and then started one with Nicola . |
| 8 | Assistant manager Gerry Collins suggested that a couple of sessions with leading psychologist Cathy Smith last week had had an effect . |
| 9 | Miller had to have an illness which was visible , painful , incurable , distasteful to others and yet not even remotely acceptable as a ‘ status ’ ailment , such as duodenal ulcers , a disorder rather too fashionable among business executives , mass-communicators , literary agents and other money-grubbing vandals . |
| 10 | You see , I thought I had evidence that you and Elise had had an affair , even though you would n't admit it . |
| 11 | Yet the same John Redburn had had an affair — probably after his marriage , and probably with a married woman . |
| 12 | It had been sent by her aunt 's neighbour who reported that Bertha had had an accident . |
| 13 | Ruth Baird continues to teach a strong Edinburgh class but as a result of her unplanned and completely unsponsored double somersault down a highland waterfall , Muriel Jessop had to have an operation to deal with a torn cartilage and frayed ligaments in her knee . |
| 14 | He had been in Reykjavik harbour when Churchill and Roosevelt had had an Atlantic meeting . |
| 15 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 16 | Jackie 's brother-in-law , Joe Rubython , said : ‘ Jack phoned last weekend and said Sunnie had had an operation which was 100 per cent successful . |
| 17 | I 'd rather Lesley had had an abortion and tried for a kid when we were married . |
| 18 | Held , dismissing the appeals , ( 1 ) that , on its true construction , section 6(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1980 had to be given a literal meaning ; that where a school was over-subscribed compliance with the preference of all the applicants would necessarily prejudice efficient education , and in such circumstances the school had to have an admissions policy , which would inevitably result in defeating the preference of some applicants , whatever criteria were adopted ; and that , accordingly , since the school was over-subscribed , there was no duty on the governors to give effect to the applicants ' preferences ( post , pp. 100H — 101B , 106H , 107G–H , 108A , G–H ) . |
| 19 | Then on June 15th I went to John 's from work and was told Clare had had an accident , but he could n't tell me how serious . |
| 20 | Mullan had had an altercation with a youth who had called Mosley a ‘ Black Bastard ’ . |
| 21 | And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal . |