Example sentences of "had have [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , of course , Dad had had all sorts of minor affairs and that had n't broken up the marriage . |
| 2 | Kate had had one glass of wine with dinner and was now enjoying an armagnac . |
| 3 | The International Herald Tribune of Oct. 30 reported that documents supplied to the court handling the case of the murdered Jesuits showed that Maj. Eric Buckland , a US military adviser , and others had had prior knowledge of the proposed attack on the Jesuits . |
| 4 | This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this . |
| 5 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 6 | He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 9 | It had continually opposed socio-political change and had had little understanding of the industrialization process up to that time . |
| 10 | As we sat over our coffee , László explained how one of Pest 's main streets , Pest 's answer to the Champs Elysées , had had five changes of name since 1948 . |
| 11 | Jane had had wide imaginings of everybody 's abilities coming together to a common end , but fortunately she had kept her thoughts to herself . |
| 12 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 13 | Dad had had some kind of religious crisis later , but I did n't know too much about that . |
| 14 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 15 | I was just six then , and while Blyth knew that I had had some sort of little accident when I was much younger I certainly seemed to him to be a lot more able-bodied that he was . |
| 16 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 17 | They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | While James devoted considerable space to William Wilberforce and less to the elder Stephen , Macaulay and others , George especially underlined the work of his father and Macaulay who were , he claimed , the only long-standing abolitionists who had had direct experience of the effects of the slave trade and slavery and who were portrayed as replacing Clarkson as the ‘ crutches ’ of the parliamentary antislavery leadership by the 1820s . |
| 20 | This section went on to ask whether the respondent had had direct experience of a whole school review in accordance with the Oxfordshire scheme . |
| 21 | If I was lucky , Gav would be so shocked at the very idea I had had carnal knowledge of an aunt — even one of the not-really-an-aunt variety — that he would just pretend it had n't happened . |
| 22 | Barry 's house had had those kind of stairs . |
| 23 | At the time Circular 7/88 was published , neither Cambridgeshire nor Solihull had had any experience of the use of funding based on a formula . |
| 24 | As part of this study , academics were asked if they had had any experience of integrated/interdisciplinary degree courses , and whether it had been positive or negative . |
| 25 | ‘ I know that if Ken had had any kind of sexual relationship it would n't have been with anyone he knew well . |
| 26 | He had had three treasurers of England already , good men every one , and two treasurers of his own household , and none of them had made ends meet yet . |
| 27 | A kind woman , she had had three children of her own and a heart as large as her ample body . |
| 28 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 29 | They noted that one LEA employed only qualified personnel , whereas others were content to recruit mothers who had had first-hand experience of bringing up their own children . |
| 30 | Ursodeoxycholic acid — In a large but uncontrolled study from Bologna , Villanova et al reported recurrence rates in 86 patients who had had 96 episodes of gall stone dissolution ( in 10 , recurrent stones were dissolved with a further course of oral bile acid treatment ) . |