Example sentences of "he had have [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had had little sleep from the commencement of the strike and was dog-tired . |
| 2 | It had been less than two days since he had met the Doctor , and he had had little rest . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And he had to confess that it was years since he had had such notions . |
| 7 | Delaney remembered the feeling he had had that Connors was holding something back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | But Graham Hunsley , for Cowper , said : ‘ He had had some involvement with drugs . |
| 11 | If he had had any decency he would have talked to Mr Malik about what was going to happen . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If he had had any doubts about that her expression dispelled them . |
| 19 | He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others . |
| 20 | Shortly afterwards Nigger decided he had had enough heat for one day . |
| 21 | He was a poor performer at school , often in trouble for truanting , and by the time he was 16 he had had several appearances in the juvenile court for stealing and ‘ joy-riding ’ . |
| 22 | But Mr Foley said afterwards that he had had several discussions over the last few weeks with Mr Clinton and he had not been asked if he wanted such an appointment . |
| 23 | It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience . |
| 24 | He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’ |
| 25 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 26 | Yeah he had to have some alterations made |
| 27 | To do it , he had to have more privacy than his room allowed , and he had tentatively approached Captain Dawson , who was home on leave and was painting the porch , for permission to put a table and chair in the garage , so that he could work there . |