Example sentences of "had have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As always his mother had had the upper hand . |
| 2 | Instead of the sunset raging a fire in them as Fernando had obviously intended , it had had the reverse effect — doused away a good deal of bitterness and left them with a certain sadness . |
| 3 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 4 | Moynihan , once a junior minister , who had lost his seat at the election , had had the good fortune to buy her a drink the evening before and had suggested ‘ an exquisite light lunch ’ at Macau , the town 's only Portuguese restaurant . |
| 5 | At least the Rabiers had had the good sense to leave the inside of the château as it had been , at any rate on this floor . |
| 6 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 7 | On this occasion the publicity or discussion in the town had had the beneficial effect that the first victim recognised the matter was being taken seriously and so reported the earlier incident . |
| 8 | Bob had had the Bulgarian State Non-Ferrous Metals Trust jamboree the previous month , and he 'd had the Cosmosair inaugural to Saarbrucken himself . |
| 9 | He would have liked to talk to Richie , but Richie had had the in-car phone removed . |
| 10 | She had had the tiresome habit of subjecting her speech-writers to a sixth-form question and answer session along the lines of , ‘ Tell me Chris , what do you mean by ‘ liberty ’ ? ’ and it was not until the welcome arrival of a cheerful Denis at two-thirty in the morning that she could be persuaded to go to bed . |
| 11 | A few weeks later Mr Walker told Ruth of a premonition that he had had the previous night — it was identical to Mr Reynolds ' . |
| 12 | How he had intended that they should live with her for a while , and how his mother had a grudge against Bridget , and the terrible row they had had the previous night , and how they did n't know where they were going to live . |
| 13 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
| 14 | No but , what the bloke had one half and you had to have the other half . |
| 15 | All the , the unlimitable supply of God 's grace could not save you or me by itself it had to have the other side , it had to have faith , I have to receive it . |
| 16 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 17 | Because you had to have the stern anchor to keep the buckets off the face of what you was dredging cos if you did n't your dredge 'd go ahead too much and er you had big problems there and you would n't be able to dredge . |
| 18 | ‘ If anyone had to have the cold meal , it should have been the bigwigs . |
| 19 | I always knew that you had to have the important artists around too . |
| 20 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 21 | He did not know where , and did not particularly care , except that it meant that the Establishment was on Amber Black , and every car had to have the magic mirror wand shoved underneath the chassis . |