Example sentences of "[noun sg] had have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 2 | One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack . |
| 3 | But the town had to have a gaol to justify its claim . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | The archer had to have a face . |
| 6 | The long night had had a result ; he was back in control again . |
| 7 | Her father had had a link with Italy . |
| 8 | Before he went to the hospital , John Coffin had had a telephone call from his current girlfriend . |
| 9 | Anyone seeking temporary work beyond his own parish had to have a certificate ( signed by the minister and an overseer ) which acknowledged legal responsibility . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | The Yard had had a tip months before that a big drug-ring was setting up a new and major operation in England . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Several teenage mothers in this book had had a home tutor and most had enjoyed it . |
| 14 | In the year 1981/82 it became clear that the evaluation project had had a number of ‘ spin-offs ’ , for instance : |
| 15 | Presumably the box had to have a master . |
| 16 | The Jura alien had had a lot to say about Tellenorean life-forms . |
| 17 | Then the American millionaire had had a heart attack . |
| 18 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | If our house had had a glass front like the neighbours the car would have gone straight through . |
| 25 | Keith Rankin , representing Michael Lowther said his client had had a childhood of abuse and was of limited intelligence . |
| 26 | Cromwell had seen that while a monarch with some claim to divine authority could rule three separate kingdoms separately by virtue of his three separate crowns , a republic had to have a parliament that united all of the British Isles . |
| 27 | Mother had to have a nose in . |
| 28 | Of course her mother had had a sister — Elaine . |
| 29 | Her mother had had a fit when Carolyn admitted that she was living on social security . |
| 30 | At 5am the next day , doctors had awoken Mr Taylor and his wife Joanne to tell them their son had had a heart attack and suffered severe brain damage . |