Example sentences of "had had some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have put a torch to their damned house yesterday , if I had had some tinder . |
| 2 | In the early days Diana had had some guidance from Sir Richard Attenborough . |
| 3 | The self-discipline and lessened dependence on each other that Helen had hoped for had had some effect on Edward , as his first letter to Helen from his Oxford lodgings shows : |
| 4 | Paul had had some difficulty in prising the really caked bits of spaghetti off the bottom of the pan but , with a light wristy action perfected on Wall 's sausages which burst their skin , he managed to get all but the blackest fragments out . |
| 5 | He said there was a protest movement , similar to that among American Indians , which had had some small success in winning back some of the lands that had been taken over . |
| 6 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 7 | Billy had been a close friend for over a year now and they had had some good times together . |
| 8 | He was reputed to have a lightning start and had had some close races with Allan Wells . |
| 9 | He had had some experience , he said , of the extent to which thoughtless , incautious young men were ‘ victimized and not unfrequently involved in utter ruin on the very threshold of their career by money-lenders who prey upon their credulity and inexperience . ’ |
| 10 | If I faintly wish Isabella had had some intellectual interests — and she could have been very funny about them — am I perhaps wrong ? |
| 11 | He accepted that the JMU had had some teething problems , but pointed out that the audit monitoring process was still in its early days ; it was improving and would continue to improve with experience . |
| 12 | The tickets alone were so expensive , not to speak of the need for a good costume , that they would realize that inexplicably he had had some financial success . |
| 13 | Since I was twenty years old and had had some success in college debating societies , this possibility did not strike me as remote . |
| 14 | The Second Report in 1955 ( HMSO 1955 ) was more optimistic , with the Committee stating that its earlier recommendations had had some influence over employers . |
| 15 | But he had had some valuable help . |
| 16 | This season no great turn around was expected : for the first time the Show 's organisers had had some difficulty filling the sixty-four available booths . |
| 17 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 18 | Gloucester had had some links with the county through the former de Vere estates , but he does not seem to have been particularly active there and his influence was overshadowed by the duchy of Cornwall interest . |
| 19 | She thought of him , of how he must feel now , mourning his dead sister and wishing he had had some last word from her ; and then , how she would give him Mrs Gotobed 's message , to comfort him . |
| 20 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 21 | Both the Blacks and the Whites interviewed contained several people who had had some unpleasant experience of the police , though this only occasionally ( for the Blacks ) included a racial element . |
| 22 | The most admirable part of the whole affair was the undeviating loyalty of his wife , Valerie Hobson , with whom I had had some encounters previously , when she was married to Anthony Havelock-Allan . |
| 23 | Later the same morning Aitken went to Yorkshire Television 's headquarters in Leeds , where for the two years previously he had had some contacts and where the company was planning a documentary film on Biafra . |
| 24 | When Annunziata came to collect the tray , Julia asked her tentatively whether she had had some news . |
| 25 | And Jack , her husband , had had some high-flown notion of dedicating the lad to the cause . |
| 26 | On his arrival in the village , the Franciscan had had some trouble with those who practised the black arts and used the cemetery for diabolical activities . |
| 27 | Dad had had some kind of religious crisis later , but I did n't know too much about that . |
| 28 | While the discussions of partnership in validation were taking place in the late 1970s , therefore , the CNAA had had some decade and a half of validation experience , but the rapid expansion of subject areas and such relatively recent developments as the DipHE and modular courses , and the uncertainties surrounding public sector higher education in a swiftly changing economic climate , all helped to strengthen the view that the Council should not move too rapidly into a higher gear of change . |
| 29 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
| 30 | Gloucester had had some links with the county through the former de Vere estates , but he does not seem to have been particularly active there and his influence was overshadowed by the duchy of Cornwall interest . |