Example sentences of "had had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We found that the plane had had all its seats taken out to make enough room for all of us . |
| 32 | He had had all the advantages of what my father called ‘ a good family background ’ ; he spoke with an educated voice ; he had been raised to respect good manners . |
| 33 | It was the first bit of luck she had had all afternoon . |
| 34 | I had a choice between a Western adventure in German , two American spy thrillers or a much-thumbed pornographic comic which had had all the lurid pages torn out as wanking aids . |
| 35 | He had had all her chocolate , too ! |
| 36 | But , of course , Dad had had all sorts of minor affairs and that had n't broken up the marriage . |
| 37 | Instead of the brilliant sunshine we had had all the week before it had started raining throughout the night and was still falling steadily . |
| 38 | The Prince had had all the men up on deck scanning the river with the aid of oil lamps . |
| 39 | She had had all the locks changed . |
| 40 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 41 | Since leaving Berlin Blake had had one or two scares when various West Germans had been arrested for spying and made allegations about him . |
| 42 | I was waiting one night for a bus from South Kensington to Fulham when two of them , who obviously had had one or two over the eight came towards me . |
| 43 | I had had one very close childhood friend , Maeve , but her family had moved to a different part of the country and I never saw her again . |
| 44 | It was no wonder men turned to prostitutes , he thought ; but he himself had had one appalling lesson and did not need a second . |
| 45 | He had chain-smoked all the way down and Adam had had one or two to keep him company , though he did n't really like putting something lighted in his mouth . |
| 46 | Before then we had had one last area of gorges and one long haul up — sweaty work under the hot sun . |
| 47 | Leo had dragged himself up from the East End , where his father , a first-generation Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine , had worked as a tailor 's cutter ; James , on the other hand , had had one of those privileged English upbringings . |
| 48 | Gristy had been trolling for mackerel since dawn , and had had one of his best catches ever . |
| 49 | Kate had had one glass of wine with dinner and was now enjoying an armagnac . |
| 50 | Lawyers handling his affairs had then dumped the boat on the market just after Wall Street had had one of its periodic crashes . |
| 51 | Anxiously she hoped not , although she had had one or two uneasy moments about certain other guests who were not simply here to witness the ceremony like the gentlemen from the mill and the dressmakers , but would have to be entertained to champagne and bride-cake and all the other delicacies Mrs Drubb had prepared for them afterwards , at Frizingley Hall . |
| 52 | ‘ But I did n't leave it there , because Dysart had had one lucky escape too many for my liking . |
| 53 | Everyone was in a good mood because not only was it the last day of school today , but everybody had had one and a half days off school already . |
| 54 | However , the Colorados ' Batllismo Radical faction , which hitherto had had one representative in the Cabinet pulled out of the coalition . |
| 55 | Pancreatic enzyme synthesis , turnover , and secretion were measured in 10 patients in clinical remission who had had one or more ( one to six ) attacks of acute alcoholic pancreatitis . |
| 56 | Forth five of the 55 women ( 82% ) who replied to the questionnaire had had one or more pregnancies before dissolution treatment began . |
| 57 | If Peggy herself had had one tenth of such devotion from her father she would have had a happier time as a child . |
| 58 | This Teddy , so the tale went , had had one paw removed and a small flail with leather tails sewn on . |
| 59 | She had had two stepfathers , but the new one , Russell , was the worst . |
| 60 | Susie had come from a village ten miles from the Oxfordshire market town in which the school was placed : her previous village primary school had had two teachers ; her experience in that school at a younger more protected age seemed to her less interesting and more childish . |