Example sentences of "[pers pn] had have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 32 | ‘ If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’ |
| 33 | If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me . |
| 34 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 35 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 36 | If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it . |
| 37 | After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection . |
| 38 | Whether she had had a warning or what . |
| 39 | Yes so that 's why she had to have a doctor for that one . |
| 40 | Then , in February last year , she had to have a kidney removed . |
| 41 | Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine . |
| 42 | She had had a colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis for FAP in 1961 and had required 20 fulgurations for rectal polyps . |
| 43 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 44 | She had had a word about this girl , Monica ; there was really nothing , nothing at all . |
| 45 | When she first came to the sand , a long time ago , she had had a pocketful of pills and squeezers , but she had lost interest in them . |
| 46 | Shamefully , she had had a vision of his body naked , even before they had gone to bed together , her first intimation that she was beginning to feel more for him than she ought , for the vision had not frightened but intrigued her . |
| 47 | It was perfectly true ; she had had a friend once who 'd changed personality at the drop of a hat as soon as she had conceived . |
| 48 | It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left . |
| 49 | At a guess , she had had a tiff with Mr Carson . |
| 50 | One girl asked another if she had had a lesson on computers that afternoon and when her friend replied in the affirmative her short comment was ‘ Dead boring , is n't it ? ’ |
| 51 | When Susie first came to see me , she had had a string of unhappy love affairs . |
| 52 | Her marriage was on the rocks , she had had a breakdown , her social life was in ruins and yet when she came to ask for his help she was wearing a sweatshirt which had the slogan on it , ‘ Christ is the answer ’ . |
| 53 | She had had a car accident . |
| 54 | If he had not known she had had a baby only a month before he would have wanted to make love to her , she was . |
| 55 | In a £500,000 damages action at the Court of Session , she had said that she had had a collapse after being injected with anaesthetic drugs in the operating theatre . |
| 56 | She had had a cholecystectomy for epigastric pain seven years before . |
| 57 | as if she had had a signal from the Chief Superintendent , Sergeant Henley subsided and Coffin took over the questioning . |
| 58 | She had had a glimpse of the academic sort of ‘ summer school ’ when she went to Oxford to lecture on Ivy to some foreign students . |
| 59 | She had had a letter from Edwin 's solicitor asking her to come to his office the following day . |
| 60 | June Rogers reported that she had had a meeting with parents interested in improving the play area at the Sun Hill recreation ground . |