Example sentences of "had have a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London .
2 It seemed that she had had a row with her man and that he had left .
3 Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name .
4 Ford had had a measure of success in restoring confidence , but the national mood remained generally pessimistic and unresponsive to political leadership .
5 ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good .
6 Ron Barton , who had had a word with his editor at his regular table at the Savoy Grill , had been told he could pay five thousand for an exclusive if he thought her to be worthwhile .
7 She had had a word about this girl , Monica ; there was really nothing , nothing at all .
8 I presumed that Prentice had had a word in somebody 's shell-like , or maybe nobody was very interested .
9 Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen .
10 Once , Sarah had had a kind of beauty — pale-skinned and dark-haired , with big lustrous eyes .
11 The husband had an extra-marital relationship with another woman by whom he had had a child in September 1985 .
12 Then , quickly she opened the door and went out and left them standing in a half circle , silent , no laughter on their faces now , just memories of what might have been if they had had a child like the little girl who used to run into them , and a daughter as she was now .
13 Her father had had a link with Italy .
14 But the two of them had had a falling-out on the night of the capitalization party .
15 He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun .
16 Poor Ryan , he had had a heart of gold .
17 Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine .
18 Keith Rankin , representing Michael Lowther said his client had had a childhood of abuse and was of limited intelligence .
19 And they had had a discussion about it , speculating as to whether he actually lived there or was there to kill something , rats , moles , any sort of infestation .
20 But would it have been different if Mrs Thatcher had had a spell on income support ? or if she had ever lugged a buggy , baby , toddler and bags of shopping on and off her infrequent , deregulated buses ?
21 After he had had a spell at Southern League Bedford Town , Palace awarded Roy a Benefit match on 15 March 1961 in token of his services to our club .
22 When she first came to the sand , a long time ago , she had had a pocketful of pills and squeezers , but she had lost interest in them .
23 Aggression or no aggression , Leith had had a surfeit of him and his calling the shots .
24 Shamefully , she had had a vision of his body naked , even before they had gone to bed together , her first intimation that she was beginning to feel more for him than she ought , for the vision had not frightened but intrigued her .
25 During a 12 month period our laboratory investigated 10871 people who had had a course of hepatitis B vaccine .
26 He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him .
27 At a guess , she had had a tiff with Mr Carson .
28 Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) .
29 The reason Jake had had a change of heart was because he had finally realised for himself that Janice would not make a good mother for Kirsty , and that Shiona , on the other hand , would .
30 He had had a fight with the insurance inspector and ended up in court charged with Assault .
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