Example sentences of "they had had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had had a pleasant walk and an easy supper . |
| 2 | Although they had no single rooms left , they said finally , they had had a late cancellation of a suite . |
| 3 | But first they had had a late tea in the smaller of the drawing-rooms . |
| 4 | She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners . |
| 5 | A few days ago , they had had a long and intense discussion about acting , and he had read through some scenes with her , and told her she had great talent and great beauty . |
| 6 | He had toyed with the idea of taking her to Dublin anyway , but they had had a rocky road enough already and perhaps she would be better at home . |
| 7 | They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources . |
| 8 | They had had a big Sunday lunch , with Mum and Dad being there . |
| 9 | They must have been there because people only grew up like Tina when they had had a hard time as children . |
| 10 | Dmitri agreed with her , and they had had a passionate argument last night with Marchak , who drove racing cars , and Frolovna , who had loved a matador for two weeks in Spain . |
| 11 | Similarly , Zuwaya claimed that they had had a Turkish licence — an exclusive licence , no less — to conduct traders and travellers who wished to cross the desert from Benghazi to Black Africa . |
| 12 | This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career . |
| 13 | For example , the percentage reporting that they had had a cold or flu in the previous month showed little change with age . |
| 14 | Three years earlier they had had a brief affair . |
| 15 | They had had a fine collection : Tombs and Torturers ; Vices and Virgins . |
| 16 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 17 | By the end of the fifteenth century fewer Chancery officials were clerics than in mid-century , and more of them had had a legal education . |