Example sentences of "[noun prp] had had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was absurd ; if Parkes had had a gun it would n't have been a .22 . |
| 2 | For a minute I thought my luck had changed and something good had happened , like Malpass had had a heart attack and I had a corpse in the back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mesrine had had a room by the tube station . |
| 5 | Miss Martindale had had a school , but her rigid ideas and stern manner had frightened the children , and their parents had taken them away . |
| 6 | Nigel had had a brain haemorrhage . |
| 7 | I presumed that Prentice had had a word in somebody 's shell-like , or maybe nobody was very interested . |
| 8 | He and Rory had had a drink the night before , and Rory confessed he 'd driven up from Belleeks early to cruise around Cultra and reconnoitre . |
| 9 | She preferred to be left alone to handle her problem with Silvia — at least until Silvia had had a chance to keep her word . |
| 10 | A prominent man , Friends — Russians in other words — and so skilled men , wallpaper , paint , gold leaf — and fine linen instantly available ; she smiled as she wondered whether Bodo had had a hand in it . |
| 11 | It appeared that once , and once only , Mr Donovan had had a success . |
| 12 | He said he and his wife , Tracie , and their sons Michael , ten , and Dale had had a lie down . |
| 13 | Mr Mobutu said on Thursday he believed he could produce an agreement this month , after Mr Savimbi had had a week of talks with US officials , including 30 minutes with President Bush , and agreed to accept Mr Mobutu as mediator between his Unita guerrilla organisation and the Luanda government . |
| 14 | It was a long time since Adam had had a dream about Zosie . |
| 15 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 16 | The membership showed no interest in doing business that way , but would have talked if SCO had had a product . |
| 17 | He would wait another couple of years , he told himself , until Grégoire had had a chance to catch up , and was more confident . |
| 18 | Jack had had a good to middling season and with pro-ams and the occasional exhibition match I had earned nearly £8000 . |
| 19 | Anne had had a poem published in a magazine , and one day I heard a conversation between Charlotte and Emily . |
| 20 | Benjamin Ryan had had a skinful , that much was evident . |
| 21 | When Mary came in from work the day after the row she told Mum that she and Albert had had a talk and that she was going to stay with his parents for a bit while Albert sorted out a house and furniture and the paraphernalia of married life . |
| 22 | If she and Lowell had had a child it would have been a strange hybrid , perhaps difficult to love . |
| 23 | Some said Durham had had a nightmare or been under the influence of drink . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Aggression or no aggression , Leith had had a surfeit of him and his calling the shots . |
| 26 | • As The Bookseller went to press , it was reported that Mr Rushdie had had a meeting on Tuesday with John Smith , the Leader of the Opposition — the first at this level in the Labour Party since the fatwa was issued . |
| 27 | But a few months before , Céline had had a baby girl , Adèle , and she claimed that Adèle was my child . |
| 28 | There was always a rumour that Noreen had had a baby to an Italian , but they had never heard the truth of it in Ireland . |
| 29 | Menelik was her fifth husband ; they had no children , though Menelik had had a son and two daughters by previous marriages . |
| 30 | A difficult birth was soon linked to a disputed paternity , for it was said that Hortense had had a lover — several names were suggested — and that Louis-Napoleon was the result of an illicit union . |