Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack . |
| 5 | But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The archer had to have a face . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) : |
| 10 | The long night had had a result ; he was back in control again . |
| 11 | Assistant manager Gerry Collins suggested that a couple of sessions with leading psychologist Cathy Smith last week had had an effect . |
| 12 | Her father had had a link with Italy . |
| 13 | Before he went to the hospital , John Coffin had had a telephone call from his current girlfriend . |
| 14 | Anyone seeking temporary work beyond his own parish had to have a certificate ( signed by the minister and an overseer ) which acknowledged legal responsibility . |
| 15 | The complaint , filed on 19 December , stated that the government had had a duty to inform Pan Am of information in its possession that a terrorist organization was planning to place a bomb on a Pan Am flight from either Frankfurt or London , specifically on Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 , and had ‘ negligently failed to inform Pan Am ’ . |
| 16 | The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England . |
| 17 | Already in Carolingian times the imperial army had had a nucleus of fully trained warriors who served their lord in exchange for holding substantial fiefs . |
| 18 | Several teenage mothers in this book had had a home tutor and most had enjoyed it . |
| 19 | In the year 1981/82 it became clear that the evaluation project had had a number of ‘ spin-offs ’ , for instance : |
| 20 | Presumably the box had to have a master . |
| 21 | The Jura alien had had a lot to say about Tellenorean life-forms . |
| 22 | Then the American millionaire had had a heart attack . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | During 1973–5 , in the wake of the oil crisis and the Middle East War , the company had had a borrowing facility from the Midland Bank of £100,000 yet they were , in fact , overdrawn by some £300,000 . |
| 27 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 28 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 29 | Before experiencing a Methodist conversion , Bamford senior had been a noted drinker and wrestler , but even at that time had had a taste for books . |
| 30 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |