Example sentences of "had had [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had had barely a glimpse of what the Ping Tiao hierarchy were up to for almost a week now .
2 Although by 1086 the Barton estate had been split up into a number of manors , of which only one was still in the hands of the king himself , there can be little doubt that before the Conquest the Anglo-Saxon kings had had here an estate of some seven thousand acres which they kept in hand for their own supplies .
3 Until then she had had absolutely no recollection of anything which had taken place in the operating theatre .
4 The season began in January in Brazil and prior to that he had had only a couple of rainy test-sessions at Silverstone .
5 Poor old Yallop , Spruce thought , had had quite a day of it after twenty-five entirely uneventful — and promotionless — years in the force .
6 I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple .
7 Mr. Barlow and Ena had had quite a giggle about those .
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