Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For months they had had difficulty in reconciling the accounts until they realized the extent of shoplifting . |
| 2 | The Irish republican SDLP and other groups which had had members in it turned on the Wilson government with the utmost ferocity for being weak , cowardly and treacherous . |
| 3 | The fact that the game was received so enthusiastically in such places as Argentina , Uruguay and Brazil , countries which had had south European rather than British cultures thrust upon them , testifies to the wide popular appeal of football . |
| 4 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 5 | Self reported constipation for at least a quarter of the time was more common in whomen who had had hysterectomies than controls ( at 25–49 years , 20% v 9% , NS ; at 50–69 years , 22% v 8% , p<0.025 ) . |
| 6 | Of the remaining three patients who had had infections but normal pitted cell counts , one had recently finished a course of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis and a fifth had culture negative pneumonia . |
| 7 | Six patients who had had gall stone recurrence in the past , followed by successful re-dissolution , were included in the trial . |
| 8 | We searched the computer records of the histopathology department for 1987 to 1991 to identify patients who had had adenocarcinoma or metastatic neoplasm diagnosed . |
| 9 | Here he pursued his special interest in the surgery of inflammatory bowel disease , setting up the first stoma care clinic for patients who had had ileostomies , a form of colostomy . |
| 10 | For 1988 the number of reports of newly diagnosed HIV-1 infection in men who had had sex with men ( 1062 ) was the lowest in any year since the widespread introduction of testing . |
| 11 | Press reporting focused as much on the reports about other women who had had sex with him as it did on the events to which he pleaded guilty . |
| 12 | Compared with all the women with the gall bladder present and an intact uterus , that is the same control group as used for the women with hysterectomy , women who had had cholecystectomy were no different with respect to all four indices of bowel function ; for example their estimated transit time was 64 ( SD 27 ) hours v 63 ( SD 23 ) hours . |
| 13 | This study examined all the women who had had hysterectomy and cholecystectomy in a defined population ( 79 and 37 respectively , out of 1058 ) to explore unsubstantiated beliefs that link these operations with bowel dysfunction . |
| 14 | Similar controls could not be identified for the women who had had hysterectomy , so comparison was made with all the women who had an intact uterus and an intact gall bladder ( n=950 , including 41 with asymptomatic gall stones ) . |
| 15 | In this population women who had had hysterectomy were more constipated than women with an intact uterus assessed by several criteria : more infrequency of defecation and slower transit time ( in older women ) , more straining at stool by both report and record , and a greater tendency to regard themselves as constipated . |