Example sentences of "who had have the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The castle or the fortified town restricted the movements of mobile field armies ; in particular , it was effective against the rapid raids of Magyars , with their lightly armed mounted archers , or the Vikings , with their swift ships , who had had the advantage of striking rapidly and ranging far . |
| 2 | Mean values were not significantly different ( Table I ) but the older women who had had the operation were more likely than their controls to report <5 defecations per week ( 27% v 9% , p<0.01 ) and also more likely to report <3 defecations per week ( 11% v 2% , p<0.025 ) . |
| 3 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 4 | Lucky to the extent of meeting a friend who had had the foresight to order a bottle of champagne for the interval . |
| 5 | Moreover , it suggested that foster parents who had had the care of a child for five years or more should be able to apply for an adoption order without risk of removal by parents before a hearing . |
| 6 | Sailors who had had the ship shot out from under them because of Mountbatten 's recklessness signed up for another tour , such were the inspirational qualities he possessed . |
| 7 | He had been at the head of the factional politics of Edward II 's middle years , and his rapid rise and precipitate fall typified the fate of others who had had the misfortune to enjoy Edward 's patronage . |
| 8 | Louise was equally anxious to see this man who had had the power to persuade her niece to go against her upbringing and character and behave so recklessly after such a brief acquaintance . |
| 9 | But then she remembered Tony , and how grateful she would have been to anyone who had had the courage to give her a hint of his real nature … |