Example sentences of "they had had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They had had occasional disputes as all families do but none had been damaging . |
2 | When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King . |
3 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
4 | that they had had insufficient feedback ; |
5 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
6 | These managers did not come across as having expert power , because they had had minimal training and appeared to be unorganised and therefore unprofessional in their conduct . |
7 | His words were ringing in her ears now although they had had little impact before . |
8 | They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment . |
9 | What would Wales have achieved 20 years ago if they had had endless squad sessions , trips to Lanzarote , 2–3 days a week off to train , personal fitness plans , etc. ? |
10 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
11 | In passing she had mentioned once that she missed the fox terrier , Rex , they had had many years ago as children . |
12 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
13 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
14 | They were excluded if they had been treated with steroids , cytotoxic drugs , antibiotics , anti-ulcer drugs , or if they had had gastroduodenal surgery . |
15 | Although they had had several centuries to grow into the landscape , they still represented a foreign intrusion for many increasingly xenophobic Englishmen , and the growing attack on their position made little real attempt to differentiate between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ houses . |
16 | They had had several children , of all of whom but the eldest Arthur was the father . |
17 | Since my last visit they had had another go . |
18 | Reviewing women at between 22–28 years after the index pregnancy ( when they had had abnormal glucose tolerance , but reverted to normal tolerance afterwards ) , he found a 50% prevalence of diabetes and 25% of abnormal glucose tolerance , whereas the controls had rates of 7% and 3% . |
19 | They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant . |
20 | But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue . |
21 | Hunt , who drafted the reply , said that the dates could not be altered ; they had had 1,050 applications and only one request for an extension . |
22 | They had had medical attention since the beginning of the year and he did not know where to turn for a penny . |
23 | They had had high priority since the fuel crisis of February 1947 , but boilers and site work had in many cases been delayed ( mainly because of steel shortages ) so that 300–400MW of plant completed by the turbo-alternator manufacturers had had to be put in store for a year or more . |
24 | As part of this study , academics were asked if they had had any experience of integrated/interdisciplinary degree courses , and whether it had been positive or negative . |
25 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
26 | Perhaps the shock is severe enough to catapult the person into feeling all the pain and extremity of loss that their defences might not have let them do if they had had more time to get organized . |
27 | Indeed , it now seemed to be the case that men did not marry women unless they had had sexual relations with them beforehand . |
28 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
29 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |