Example sentences of "had had such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 2 | One had had such widespread cancer , after her operation she was just sent home to die . |
| 3 | It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way . |
| 4 | That was my thing , 'cause the dashboard we had had such a cool snare sound . ’ |
| 5 | They seemed disappointed to hear that we had had such a pleasant day on the far bank . |
| 6 | She was no longer the easy-going tomboy with whom he had had such a simple and uncomplicated relationship . |
| 7 | Recalling the tragedy of which Juliette had spoken and which had had such a devastating effect on his mind , Melissa felt uneasy . |
| 8 | I thought that because he had had such good news he might just like to keep it to himself today . |
| 9 | No major Western head of government had had such direct contact with an Iraqi leader since the crisis began on Aug. 2 . |
| 10 | And he had to confess that it was years since he had had such notions . |
| 11 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 12 | She had had such a promising career as a physio , Kathleen thought crossly , and now she was trapped at home with her children while her husband powered quietly on up the career ladder , leaving her behind . |
| 13 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |
| 14 | It may have helped us if we had had such an organisation to fall back on . |