Example sentences of "had have [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jake had had no real friends except Ben ; he had often been at the house in those old days , never saying much , but good at mending broken toys and constructing dolls out of handkerchiefs and folded paper . |
| 2 | At that stage in my life , I had had no real careers guidance and had very little idea of what I wanted to do or what I was capable of . |
| 3 | The USA had had no diplomatic relations with Libya since 1981 , and had suspended commercial ties in 1986 . |
| 4 | This remark , occurring as it does in a passage in which he is distinguishing between the grounds of the class metal ( ‘ the possession of certain common peculiarities ’ ) and those of the class sensation of white ( ‘ nothing but resemblance ’ ) clearly implies that if I had had no other sensations of white I could not assert the proposition ‘ This is a sensation of white ’ with the meaning it has when I have had such sensations . |
| 5 | She had had no serious illnesses in the past and had never been in hospital . |
| 6 | Although Britain had long had trading connections with these areas , hitherto she had had no territorial ambitions there . |
| 7 | I always knew that you had to have the important artists around too . |
| 8 | Erm just the same as if you had had a good nights sleep . |