Example sentences of "had had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had had new borrowings or rights issues in each of the last five years and ‘ this pattern appears set to continue ’ . |
| 2 | After the winners were named the pair found it hard to convince some that their glamorous subjects were not professional models but clients who had had new images created for them in Mrs Simmons 's Skinnergate studio . |
| 3 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 4 | Two groups of patients were studied : one who had had coronary angiography because they had been given thrombolytic therapy for coronary disease , and another who had had coronary angiography due to chronic stable angina ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 5 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 6 | This study found that 73% of lone mothers depended on income support at the time of the survey , and of these only 28% had had regular full time employment before becoming a lone parent . |
| 7 | The old peasant woman whom I visited told me how bad things had been before the Liberation — that she had had 8 children , of whom all but three had died . |
| 8 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 9 | On taking her history , it was discovered that when she was twelve or thirteen she had had frequent nose bleeds and had lost a great deal of blood . |
| 10 | They were compared with 25 patients who had had primary melanomas but had a normal naevus pattern . |
| 11 | A wife whose husband had had multiple sclerosis and went to a holiday home for the disabled for two weeks to give her a rest said : |
| 12 | This was a man of forty-six who had had multiple sclerosis for six years . |
| 13 | The pancreatitis patients were divided into two groups — that is , those who had one acute attack and those who had had multiple attacks . |
| 14 | Patients who had had multiple stones experienced more recurrences than did those with single stones ( NS ) . |
| 15 | Before primary gall stone dissolution , 16 patients had had solitary stones : the remaining 77 had had multiple stones . |
| 16 | Before their initial gall stone dissolution treatment , 15 of 82 patients followed up for more than six months had had solitary stones , compared with 67 who had had multiple stones . |
| 17 | He had had 11 exhibitions in Jerusalem and some of his creations lined the walls of his little home , of David Damiani 's home . |
| 18 | All of these 7 patients had had cerebral birth injuries which might have induced a shift of dominance to the right hemisphere . |
| 19 | Within the year before the interview 27 patients had had pulmonary arterial pressures measured directly and 23 had had total lung capacity ( helium dilution ) and gas transfer measured . |
| 20 | ‘ We would not , I believe , if we had had that situation , have had the strength to deal with the Falklands , with Iraq and with the economic difficulties that we had in the early 1980s , ’ he said . |
| 21 | But to be fair , none of the drivers had had that Mr Major or Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown in the back of the cab . |
| 22 | Anyone who had had that knew a bit about the Treasury and knew a little bit about fighting back and working round them and all the rest of it and of giving orders direct to the Chancellor and saying , ‘ Look , this is what we must have ’ , and then getting the Cabinet to back it , so that it was harder for the Treasury to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 23 | Delaney remembered the feeling he had had that Connors was holding something back . |
| 24 | I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life . |
| 25 | It showed a meeting Jan Mach had had that morning . |
| 26 | The drawings had had that oddly unimpassioned quality . |
| 27 | It was a voyage of close on two thousand miles and , allowing for eventualities , it would be a month at least before we were within striking distance of the position where Charles Sunderby had had that brief sighting of the Andros . |
| 28 | ‘ I know , but without me you would never had had that chance . ’ |
| 29 | I did n't see why I should enjoy living again so soon when poor Catherine had had all that she valued slowly torn away from her … ’ |
| 30 | This branch of the family had had all the material success which their poor Frome cousins lacked , together with the necessary altruism to help out as best they could . |