Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 2 | Somehow he had had the sound relayed to a speaker , or speakers , in the hills — perhaps that was what was in the little room , relaying equipment , a generator . |
| 3 | She had the ability and now she had had the break . |
| 4 | It turned out he had had the rudiments of classicism flogged into him as a schoolboy . |
| 5 | Since then I had had a healing , been taking massive doses of vitamin C , regular doses of vitamin A and B and supplements of zinc and selenium , eating my ‘ stay-well ’ diet and doing my visualization . |
| 6 | There I had had the right to follow my own devices throughout the day . |
| 7 | He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed . |
| 8 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 9 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 10 | However it had had the effect of making her very careful , after her own children were born , about the way she spoke to them . |
| 11 | Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances . |
| 12 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |