Example sentences of "i had had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
| 2 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 3 | At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray . |
| 4 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 5 | The dread excitement of D-Day came , and I longed to be at Bletchley where I felt I had had a rôle . |
| 6 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 7 | Since then I had had a healing , been taking massive doses of vitamin C , regular doses of vitamin A and B and supplements of zinc and selenium , eating my ‘ stay-well ’ diet and doing my visualization . |
| 8 | After the hearing Dennett said : ‘ I had had a drink . |
| 9 | They were all very heartened that someone was at last taking an interest : I only wish I had had a tape recorder ! |
| 10 | That 's not the way I wanted it to be , but I had had a lot of disappointments lately . |
| 11 | I told her that I had had a sort of a breakdown , and that I was appalled by what I had done . |
| 12 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 13 | ‘ If I had had a gun I would have killed him … ’ |
| 14 | If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me . |
| 15 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 16 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 17 | If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it . |
| 18 | After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection . |
| 19 | I had had no pretensions , ever , of being a novelist , and suddenly this thing started pouring out . |
| 20 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |
| 21 | Until the very last minute I had had no idea it could happen . |
| 22 | I had had no intention of seeking to intervene in the strike and would not have done so but for the ubiquitous activity of George Wigg . |
| 23 | I had had no intention of touching it while Charlie Trumper was still away at war , until some five months later Kitty Trumper visited me in Romford . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't ever have been so intimate with you if I had had an obligation to someone else . |
| 25 | Before this , however , Ron and I had had an offer from Lord Brabourne of further Mountbatten film . |
| 26 | Suppose I had had an abortion ? ’ |
| 27 | I had had the surgery and my surgeon had taken out ‘ all he could see ’ . |
| 28 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 29 | I would have done it if I had had the chance , but somebody got there first . |
| 30 | If I had had the baby , I would never have been able to pick up my career again . ’ |