Example sentences of "had had two " in BNC.

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1 She had had two stepfathers , but the new one , Russell , was the worst .
2 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 .
3 He had written her several letters , and had had two prim replies .
4 He had written her several letters , and had had two prim replies .
5 ‘ Go and put on something beautiful , ’ he said at seven , after he had had two overt vodkas , and poured , as was his habit , a single , large , secret one , and had taken her to bed .
6 These included Thomas Attwood , a young English composer who took lessons with Mozart , an Irish tenor , Michael Kelly , who sang for four years at the imperial theatre , and became Mozart 's favourite billiards partner and drinking companion ; another composer , Stephen Storace , who had had two light operas produced in Vienna , and his sister Nancy ( Anna ) , who was principal soprano at the imperial theatre .
7 They had had two large whiskies in the bar downstairs , and they were now near the end of a bottle of Château Margaux .
8 Already in 1093 and 1094 , before he received the pallium , he had had two acrimonious disputes about the services which he owed the king as one of the greatest territorial magnates of the kingdom , and it was a third territorial dispute in 1097 which finally made him resolve to leave England .
9 I had boils and chilblains all over my hands , had had two days food poisoning ( when I had vomited over the Sergeant-Major 's jeep ) , and was tired all the time .
10 In forty years , she had had two men .
11 Or was it because he had had two daughters before the son he wanted eventually arrived and by then he was too old , with all the eagerness and spontaneity of early fatherhood dried up ?
12 Faye had had two miscarriages and now a threat hung over this pregnancy as well .
13 At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year .
14 Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop .
15 Comparison of amylase secretion and synthesis results of patients who had had only one acute attack and those who had had two or more , shows that synthetic studies may be more sensitive than the standard pancreatic function test , which only measures secretion in detecting pancreatitis .
16 Lilian had had two , and now she had one .
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