Example sentences of "who had had a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He had n't seen anyone carry on like this since going to watch the World Wrestling Federation with Gilbert Lewis , the man next door 's nephew , who had had a major seizure at the sight of a man called Hulk Hogan and had written to Robert afterwards to say that he ‘ had never expected to see anything like that in real life ’ .
2 The children of women with schizophrenia followed up by Mednick and his colleagues ( 1981a ) who eventually developed schizophrenia were more likely to have had perinatal complications than those who had had a non-traumatic birth .
3 Albert , she had remarked — Rose had n't known Twitch even had a Christian name — is like pummy stone , whereas Naseby ( who had had a definite smirk on his face when he saw her new hat ) is like Irritating Plaster , he causes irruptions .
4 Next day , Thomas , who had had a good tour so far , bowled poorly and paid the price ; Botham , by contrast , had had an awful tour , but now he bowled well and took five wickets as a result .
5 In a series of 141 patients who had had a prophylactic colectomy and ileorectal anastomosis , five patients had a history of acute pancreatitis .
6 This study set out to examine television coverage of a procession in Chicago in honour of General MacArthur , who had had a distinguished military career in the Far East , and to contrast television 's ‘ unique perspective ’ with the direct experiences of actual participants amongst the crowds .
7 In the Preston studies men and women who had had a high ratio of placental weight to birth weight had raised blood pressure , higher rates of impaired glucose tolerance , and raised plasma fibrinogen concentrations .
8 Another interesting case is that of a little boy who had had a difficult birth and had been left slightly spastic .
9 When comparing the group of patients who had had a single attack with the control group , there was no significant difference in amylase secretion ( Table III ) .
10 The students who , in the training trials , heard the buzz half a second before the shock , jerked their finger back more consistently than those who had had a longer gap between the buzz and the shock during training , and they did so much more markedly than those who heard the buzz at the time of the shock or after it ( see Fig. 24.1 ) .
11 We 'd played with Ray Floyd who had had a 78 on the first day .
12 He was relatively cheerful and uncomplaining for a man who had had a 40 minute operation to join his fractured kneecap and a severed tendon together again .
13 They would be from Canada , from her sister Louise who would suggest that she might put up various old acquaintances passing through London , or find a suitable family for a darling Austrian boy , not so very much older than Martha , whose father was a kind of Count , but was also in the import-export business , or try to recall a splendid person , the friend of a friend of hers who had had a very , very sad story .
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