Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] had have [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After breaking a leg in 1973 , Garrett tried his hand as manager of Llandudno Swifts and then Rhyl , where he had had spells in charge of both the senior and reserve teams . |
| 2 | He ran past the chip shop where he had had coffee with Benny only last night , past the newsagents ' , the sweet shop , the pub and Paccy Moore 's cobbler 's shop . |
| 3 | But Curbishley had few worries about beating Sunderland once they had had Kay sent off for foolishly retaliating against Walsh . |
| 4 | Even if I had had pencil and paper on me , I would not have cared to leave a note where someone else might see it first . |
| 5 | I would have gladly done so , if I had had time . |
| 6 | If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available . |
| 7 | But not yet — not until she had had time to rebuild her shattered defences . |
| 8 | Not until she had had time to explain that Oliver was only a little boy , that he had n't really understood … |
| 9 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 10 | I agree , she would not normally have expected the remainder to fall in and be useful to her , but of course if she had had children , it would have been valuable to them . ’ |
| 11 | Cos we had to have lamb for years ! |
| 12 | Think how different art history would be if we had had Peter Paul and Helena Rubens , Pablo and Jacqueline Picasso or Barnett and Annalee Newman . |
| 13 | ‘ Maybe , if we had had children , she would have been better . |
| 14 | If they had had pistols , they 'd have been able to get a better aim . |
| 15 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 16 | If they had had gear , they would n't have served a stranger . ’ |
| 17 | as if he had had sight of publishers ' replies to the Sunday Telegraph questionnaire , Tim Waterstone warned readers that the book trade had ‘ an astonishing capacity for self-pity and self-destruction — ignore publishers ’ gloom … |
| 18 | She did not see that if he had had rabbit for dinner it would be a case of ‘ Poor Flopsy Bunnies ’ ’ ( White , 1954 , p.35 ) . |
| 19 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 20 | If he had had fibreglass Corinthian columns at his disposal , he would have used them . |
| 21 | So now you 're imagining that he , whoever he is , popped this through the letterbox , waited till she had had time to read it , then rang the bell and invited her to take a stroll with him . |
| 22 | This was because he had had TB at the end of the Great War , ( the First World War ) and any cold was liable to turn to pleurisy . |
| 23 | Because he had to have money he got a job working in a sandwich bar near Baker Street . |
| 24 | ‘ He was taken to hospital because he had to have pine needles removed from his head . ’ |
| 25 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 26 | ‘ No ; the police came to see me before I had had time to make other arrangements . |
| 27 | As he saw her , he stretched out his arms and lifted her up before she had had time to reach the bottom step . |
| 28 | He could touch dead things , even dead slugs after they had had salt poured over them . |
| 29 | AFTER he had had breakfast with Marjorie , Oliver felt very comfortable . |
| 30 | Whether he had had plans laid for me at the time , or whether at the back of his mind , hidden from consciousness , he knew that in taking me to live with him he would be enrolling someone to deal with the business side of his life , I was never sure . |