Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] had have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary . |
| 2 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 3 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 4 | Although he had had a distinguished military record as a young man , he was sixty-two and had been engaged in predominantly civil duties for the previous twenty years . |
| 5 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed . |
| 6 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |
| 7 | For someone she had met only once he had had a remarkable impact on her . |
| 8 | Once it had had a lawn and trees and borders but except for a small area , testament to one chap 's enthusiasm for vegetables , it was , says Mrs Hewer , ‘ quite ungardened ’ . |
| 9 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I reckon if I had had a flat and everything I could have given it a try . |
| 12 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’ |
| 15 | It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm . |
| 16 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 17 | Sister Ignatia had said that Flora could n't know whether she wanted to come or not until she had had a sniff of the place , seen some of the other girls . |
| 18 | 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 ? ’ |
| 19 | What if she had had a threatening letter which worried her enough to make her turn to pills ? ’ |
| 20 | All this seems a very curious — indeed an eccentric — arrangement on the part of Nature who , if she had had a proper training in the theory of fibrous composite materials , would surely have known better . |
| 21 | as if she had had a signal from the Chief Superintendent , Sergeant Henley subsided and Coffin took over the questioning . |
| 22 | What would she have become , one asks , if she had had a ‘ progressive ’ paint-and-play beginning ? |
| 23 | Erm just the same as if you had had a good nights sleep . |
| 24 | so their charges would go up if you had to have a contingency fund ? |
| 25 | You always reacted as if you had had a leg amputated when people are just … oh , really . |
| 26 | The interesting question is whether , if we had had a lot of tremendous tycoons who were interested in the arts , the story would be a different one ; we just have n't bred those sort of people in the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 27 | When we got home my mother asked if we had had a good time and Syl said with great enthusiasm that we had . |
| 28 | It would have been better if we had had a valuation number from the outset which may well have proved more satisfactory with regards to initial enquiries . |
| 29 | Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now . |
| 30 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |