Example sentences of "had have [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had this idea ’ , said Lewis , ‘ of letters from a senior devil to a junior devil ’ The Screwtape Letters brought into literary use qualities which Lewis had had to a highly developed degree ever since adolescence . |
| 2 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 3 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 4 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 5 | It was a bridesmaid 's dress , left over from her cousin 's wedding in Charters Towers last year , and she had not worn it since , but the brief glimpse she had had of the other female guests had told her that her more casual outfits would not do tonight amongst the Hamiltons ' sophisticated entourage . |
| 6 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 7 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then one day a learned educationist visited the island and met the boy and was astonished at his understanding of many things and at the knowledge which he had developed round these things , and the educationist said to himself how wonderful it would be if every child in the land had the learning which this boy had built around the simple experiences which he had had with the bees , pigeons , flowers , vegetables , forestry and visits to York and Malham . |
| 9 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 10 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |
| 11 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 12 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 13 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 14 | In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up . |
| 15 | When asked , just after they had ended their hunger strike , what impact it had had on the TUC Jayaben Desai replied ( quoted from Race and Class , Winter 1977 ) : |
| 16 | He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake . |
| 17 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 18 | That the names have survived with little alteration to the present day suggests both a greater stability in continuity than before and a stronger cultural impact than the Romans had had on the local native population . |
| 19 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 20 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 21 | He had been nothing other than polite since that confrontation they had had on the deck , maintaining the charade of their relationship with apparent ease , yet Fran had sensed the tension behind the smiling façade . |
| 22 | On reporting to the tsar in 1849 , the Minister received the title of Count for providing Nicholas with more information about a group of dissidents than he had had since the exposure of the Decembrists . |
| 23 | A committee of professors , who were also our teachers , would judge us on the marks we had had during the past four years , especially this last year , and award diplomas accordingly . |
| 24 | I was informed that this was the third ’ clip out ’ he had had during the night on that rod , the other two having been either aborted or missed . |
| 25 | they were very dissatisfied with the amount of feedback they had had following the presentation of the report ; |
| 26 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 27 | The word favoured by headline-writers was ‘ tarnished ’ , although any lustre North had had in the media was not much more than the borrowed glow of stars whom he superficially resembled . |
| 28 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
| 29 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |
| 30 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |