Example sentences of "she had [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 She had been so terrifically busy lately that she had scarcely had time to go near the beach , except for odd moments snatched while she was shopping .
2 My motive is owing to no dislike I have for him but methinks it would reflect a little upon my Pamela if she had married a man for his estate when she had rather have had another .
3 She would ‘ have to make a very special effort ’ to build the links with other professionals — GPs , the police , consultants and others on which she had barely had time to start in the five months she was there .
4 Some six months later an anguished letter arrived from the United States in which she said that since arriving in the USA she had barely had two weeks without an attack of herpes and could she possibly attend again when she was next in England .
5 She had nearly had heart failure at the thought of Garry going up there .
6 She had even had some published in a horrible feminist magazine .
7 She had even had new quills cut for me , and some to spare . ’
8 Even in medical school it had inhibited her to the point where she had even had serious doubts about whether she would be able to continue her studies , simply because , unlike many of her senior colleagues , she had never quite managed to acquire the kind of detachment that was so necessary sometimes to become a doctor .
9 One of the great unanswered questions in my life is why Mrs Spence was going to antenatal classes that afternoon when , as she had already had one child , she presumably had a pretty good idea of what to expect .
10 She had already had one nervous breakdown , which was no doubt a great nuisance to everybody , and now she was heading for something worse : agoraphobia .
11 She had already had one of her hips replaced and the other one was going the same way .
12 For Margaret Olmer , born in Vienna in 1931 , despite forebodings at Liverpool Street , rural life in Norfolk proved congenial and , perhaps because she had already had to learn to adapt , she settled in more quickly than the daughter of her host family who was evacuated with her .
13 But she only wanted the vest for him ; he had a start in life that she never had ; why , when she was his age she had already had one child , and was working in Dublin 's most exclusive brothel .
14 She had already had occasion to notice Katherine 's skills , skills with arrangement , with colours and shape .
15 She had already had second thoughts .
16 She had just had painful surgery to remove an ovarian cyst that had turned out to be benign .
17 She had just had the pains when Colt had last written , not been feeling herself .
18 She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him .
19 She had just had puppies .
20 She had just had puppies .
21 On going back downstairs in her working clothes to do the washing up , she felt a quiet pride : not only had she now achieved the status of a married woman , but she had also had a proper wedding with a cake and an attendant — which was more than did most girls of her class .
22 Her time in custody was the equivalent of a one-month prison sentence and she had also had the punishment of spending three weeks at the probation hostel , he added .
23 She had also had a pot plant on the chest called David .
24 She was suddenly tired of all the evasion , her own included ; she had also had her fill of conversational shock tactics .
25 She had also had other family difficulties and this led her to feel increasingly depressed and isolated , and to her abuse of alcohol and drugs .
26 Perhaps she had simply had enough .
27 As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality .
28 Around her neck she put a thin early Victorian gold chain , on her right hand a fire opal she had recently had reset in a simple gold ring , on her left wrist the gold Baume & Mercier watch .
29 She had hitherto had plenty of flirtations .
30 Perhaps she had often had to put up this kind of defence Ianthe thought .
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