Example sentences of "had had enough " in BNC.
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| 1 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 2 | But after 10 years of Tory rule , he had had enough of that approach to politics . |
| 3 | After 10 years of teaching Allan had had enough . |
| 4 | It is rugby 's version of the north-south divide , given further emphasis when last season 's England captains Will Carling and Rob Andrew , who play for Harlequins and Wasps respectively , decided they had had enough of travelling and declared for London . |
| 5 | Later Macmillan was reputed to have defended his decision in a sentence which is likely to be authentic because it has the Macmillan ring : ‘ I thought we had had enough of Martha and it was time for some Mary. , |
| 6 | Then after two or three months she had had enough so she did n't give her pay packet in at all . |
| 7 | The front porch was added in 1751 after the Springetts had had enough of the south-westerly winds . |
| 8 | His members had had enough . |
| 9 | He had had enough . |
| 10 | She fought the feeling all through Saturday , but by Sunday she had had enough . |
| 11 | From here to the final stages it was all uphill , and with six furlongs left St Denis had had enough , so Achilles took up the running until the runners came into the straight . |
| 12 | Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust . |
| 13 | At last , at 39 , facing the Bolshoi 's compulsory retirement age of 40 , she had had enough . |
| 14 | He had had enough and decided to sue . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do you ask so many questions , you irritating little brat ? ’ cried Mr Fractor one day when he had had enough . |
| 16 | Up till this time Wendy and I had endured the discomforts of Althorp Street with cheerful good humour ; but when we discovered layers of stale milk on the saucepans , we felt we had had enough . |
| 17 | Isaac Day had had enough . |
| 18 | Herbert , deciding that he had had enough of provincial life , set up in partnership again with brother James . |
| 19 | Donald had had enough local history . |
| 20 | It was difficult to know , though , whether he had had enough to save him . |
| 21 | Shortly afterwards Nigger decided he had had enough heat for one day . |
| 22 | After two cancellations that were made at the behest of the managing director , Peter Threfall , I had had enough . |
| 23 | For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough . |
| 24 | Corbett turned to his guide to ask what was happening but found the man had had enough sense and discretion to depart as quickly as possible . |
| 25 | Suddenly Harriet had had enough . |
| 26 | But he was not too worried ; he had had enough of worry for one morning ; if it came to the worst he would just report it stolen . |
| 27 | Yet we knew that if a programme was going to work it had to be ‘ user friendly ’ — we had had enough of diet and exercise books written by doctors and self-proclaimed experts . |
| 28 | If the truth were told , Jonadab had had enough . |
| 29 | The connections were , of course , the Red Army : after 18 months of disastrous and brutal reforms , carried out in an overly reckless spirit because the PDPA leaders believed the Russians would always bale them out , Moscow decided in late 1979 that it had had enough . |
| 30 | By this stage , Ofahengaue had had enough . |