Example sentences of "had have a [noun] of " 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 | Ford had had a measure of success in restoring confidence , but the national mood remained generally pessimistic and unresponsive to political leadership . |
| 3 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 4 | Once , Sarah had had a kind of beauty — pale-skinned and dark-haired , with big lustrous eyes . |
| 5 | Poor Ryan , he had had a heart of gold . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Keith Rankin , representing Michael Lowther said his client had had a childhood of abuse and was of limited intelligence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Aggression or no aggression , Leith had had a surfeit of him and his calling the shots . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | During a 12 month period our laboratory investigated 10871 people who had had a course of hepatitis B vaccine . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Pappy and she , on the other hand , had had a whale of a time . |
| 15 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 16 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 17 | Rains had had a bottle of vichy water in his inside pocket . |
| 18 | A man called Slade made a statement that he had seen Cooper twice in London on the day of the murder , indeed had had a cup of tea with him in a café . |
| 19 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |
| 21 | He had had a series of injuries , he did not have reasonable employment , and a plainly lucrative offer from Japan had appeal . |
| 22 | Joshua , who had had a series of secretaries , one of whom had married John Biffen , said that he did . |
| 23 | He had had a succession of good hands and won the kitty twice . |
| 24 | In the spring , they had had a vase of bluebells in the kitchen ; he had run up the stem of one full , blue flower and it had barely bent under his weight . |
| 25 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |
| 26 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 27 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 28 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 29 | He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them . |
| 30 | In the year 1981/82 it became clear that the evaluation project had had a number of ‘ spin-offs ’ , for instance : |