Example sentences of "he had have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalgliesh knew that no politician would have talked with such freedom unless he had had absolute confidence in his listener 's discretion . |
| 2 | He had had 11 exhibitions in Jerusalem and some of his creations lined the walls of his little home , of David Damiani 's home . |
| 3 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
| 4 | He had had little sleep from the commencement of the strike and was dog-tired . |
| 5 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 6 | One MPG teacher thought that , in theory , job satisfaction would increase if there was greater involvement in making decision , but he had had little experience of this ! |
| 7 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |
| 8 | It is impossible to imagine such an accident ever happening to the meticulous and super-observant John Gould , but Darwin was no ornithologist , and , as a naturalist , he had had little training in the disciplines of collecting or identification . |
| 9 | And he had to confess that it was years since he had had such notions . |
| 10 | Alan gave it back to him , but when he had had two mouthfuls he let it drop . |
| 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 | After the affidavits one of Kesselring 's subordinates , a man named Krumhaar , was cross-examined about an operation in which he had had twelve men from the village of Burgo Techino shot because two of his men had been severely wounded by ‘ terrorists ’ during a parade through the town . |
| 13 | He had had violent diarrhoea and had wiped his arse in the night with his own clothes . |
| 14 | It was held that in showing that he relied upon the figures in Lloyd 's Register and had disregarded the figure in the ship 's documents , he had failed to prove that he had had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation . |
| 15 | Delaney remembered the feeling he had had that Connors was holding something back . |
| 16 | He had had mock fights enough , and some of them pretty dirty . |
| 17 | He was growing like a beanshoot and most of the things he had had last summer were too small . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | But Graham Hunsley , for Cowper , said : ‘ He had had some involvement with drugs . |
| 21 | If he had had any decency he would have talked to Mr Malik about what was going to happen . |
| 22 | Owen half-realized this and if he had had any sense would have shut up , but Mahmoud 's moods blew up very suddenly out of an apparently clear sky and once again he was slow in reacting . |
| 23 | If he had had any foresight , when the Woolf-Tumim report was published , the right hon. Gentleman would have said to himself , ’ Here is a unique and historic opportunity for me to make my reputation as one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century . ’ |
| 24 | He was sure , not only because he could have written out a set of instructions there and then , if he had had any paper , but because he could imagine all the minute details of doing those things . |
| 25 | After a while , Marcus , as if impatient , or to see if he had had any effect , stopped the breathing exercise and , half sitting up , began to pull the limp body about , almost roughly , almost angrily , as if he would scarcely believe that he was not succeeding . |
| 26 | If he had had any doubts about paternity , they were dispelled ; for , even though he kept his distance , he did once get near enough to the pair to become acutely aware that the child bore a striking resemblance to him : dark hair , dark brown eyes beneath the same unusual winged eyebrows . |
| 27 | If he had had any doubts about this , the Queen 's attitude must have set his mind at rest : she had invested , on a commercial basis , in Hawkins 's slave-trading and , less openly , she invested in Drake 's plans for a non-governmental attack on Spain . |
| 28 | If he had had any doubts about that her expression dispelled them . |
| 29 | Timothy Langdale , QC , counsel for Guppy , said he had had high expenses in recent years and it should not be assumed ‘ that there is some pot of gold stuck in some foreign country ’ . |
| 30 | He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others . |