Example sentences of "had have an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had had an unhappy home life as a child and his youth was marked by a certain amount of delinquency . |
| 2 | But she was inherently an unhappy woman , who had had an unhappy childhood , and possibly an unhappy marriage , although she would never have admitted it . |
| 3 | Diana 's parents had had an unhappy marriage . |
| 4 | He was an only child whose parents had had an unhappy marriage , with rows and infidelities . |
| 5 | He tried to remember that Fiver was under-sized and that they had had an anxious time and were all weary . |
| 6 | It must have been obvious to the jury that these witnesses were in a special position , one as the husband of a woman with whom the defendant had had an intimate relationship and the other as the sister of the deceased , whom the defendant had shot , according to himself , accidentally . |
| 7 | She told Vanity Fair that it was well known in Washington that President Bush had had an extra-marital affair . |
| 8 | Having attempted to define the campaign 's agenda on the basis of " family values " , Bush was also severely embarrassed by a front page story carried in the New York Post on Aug. 11 which alleged that he had had an extra-marital affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald , a former personal assistant and a current protocol officer in the State Department . |
| 9 | If Adam had had an equal amount they would have managed . |
| 10 | Two-thirds of current carers in McLaughlin 's ( 1991 ) study reported that caring had had an adverse effect on their living standards , regardless of their household income level . |
| 11 | In 1987 14 per cent of the population of Great Britain , 16 per cent of females and 12 per cent of males , reported that they had had an acute health episode in the previous 14 days . |
| 12 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 13 | Baker-Finch had had an unlucky start by spinning back into the burn at the 1st , and when I checked the leaderboard we were a stroke behind Watson with Langer , so there was all to play for . |
| 14 | It was as if the magic house in the wood had had an invisible fence set around it or — what did they call it ? — a shutting spell . |
| 15 | Exley , at 30 almost a veteran , but who had had an impressive run in this year 's championships , vowed : ‘ I 'll be back next year and if I meet Eric I 'll beat him . ’ |
| 16 | Next day , Thomas , who had had a good tour so far , bowled poorly and paid the price ; Botham , by contrast , had had an awful tour , but now he bowled well and took five wickets as a result . |
| 17 | Terry 's family , unlike he himself , had n't had a great deal of experience of the world outside the States , so Peg had had an awful lot to learn . |
| 18 | It had been claimed that Mrs McWilliams had had an allergic reaction to the drugs and she had alleged negligence by the anaesthetist . |
| 19 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 20 | He had had an English half-sister , much older than him . |
| 21 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 22 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
| 23 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 24 | The event might not have any obvious long-term adverse significance and may in fact have seemingly positive rather than negative features , such as the reappearance and request to renew contact with a lover with whom a person had had an intense relationship a few years earlier . |
| 25 | The movement had had an enormous impact on Christian leaders throughout England in the previous years — few churches have not benefited from the faith and New Testament life of the movement . |
| 26 | Early on in the preparations , she had had an inexplicable change of heart and remained committed . |
| 27 | She had had an unpleasant feeling it might have been her . |
| 28 | If the dahabeeyah had had an engine-room Owen could have imagined him poking around happily in it . |
| 29 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 30 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |