Example sentences of "had have [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 2 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 3 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 4 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 5 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 6 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 7 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 8 | In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up . |
| 9 | He had been nothing other than polite since that confrontation they had had on the deck , maintaining the charade of their relationship with apparent ease , yet Fran had sensed the tension behind the smiling façade . |
| 10 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 11 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 12 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 13 | On reporting to the tsar in 1849 , the Minister received the title of Count for providing Nicholas with more information about a group of dissidents than he had had since the exposure of the Decembrists . |
| 14 | I was informed that this was the third ’ clip out ’ he had had during the night on that rod , the other two having been either aborted or missed . |
| 15 | they were very dissatisfied with the amount of feedback they had had following the presentation of the report ; |
| 16 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |
| 17 | She remembered with sadness all the neighbourly contacts they had had in the past — Lowell 's anxiety when Edward had gone missing on his new bike during a November fog and his tireless search until he was found — his ham-fisted efforts to assist her in Ben 's absence when the washing-machine had flooded the kitchen — his quiet piano-playing , when his hands were still capable , at the end of a noisy party when all the guests had gone home . |
| 18 | It reminded her of the feeling she had had in the room below this one , stood there amongst the shrouded furniture ; that the house was not abandoned , merely boarded up temporarily , awaiting its occupant 's return . |
| 19 | The 27-year-old North-East man was at times impatient and ragged and displayed the expected ring rust from the ten-month lay-off he had had before the fight . |