Example sentences of "had [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought she could in the end be legitimized , be more than just the girl who had married the first man who came along in order to get away from home : daughter of a mother who 'd shacked up with her own mother 's boyfriend at that own mother 's unconscious behest — and had thereby had her life negated forever . |
| 2 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 3 | I had rarely had reason to enter my father 's room prior to this occasion and I was newly struck by the smallness and starkness of it . |
| 4 | But I tell you Minnie , for all the independence , I had rather have my old job back and be in service with Mrs Browning . |
| 5 | ‘ I had rather have the certainties of middle-age , ma'am . ’ |
| 6 | John Poole 's temper can not have been improved when he announced the news of Robespierre 's execution , reported in that day 's Western Flying Post , and prompted from Southey the Histrionic cry , ‘ I had rather have heard the death of my own father . ’ |
| 7 | My motive is owing to no dislike I have for him but methinks it would reflect a little upon my Pamela if she had married a man for his estate when she had rather have had another . |
| 8 | Since Michael had opened a hostess club in the West End , he had literally had his pick of women to spend the night with . |
| 9 | I had literally had everything possible that a judge can give you . |
| 10 | She had hitherto had plenty of flirtations . |
| 11 | In addition , if women were to enter public life and achieve positions of power there they would constitute a personal challenge to the men who had hitherto had it their own way . |
| 12 | But while reasserting the old , he also broke new ground in the claim that he was rightful lord over all men in the area who had hitherto had no lord . |
| 13 | Although the committee accepts the DTp 's contention that individual pollution accidents had hitherto had little effect , it believes that the rise in incidents in the crowded North Sea and English Channel is a serious " cause for concern " . |
| 14 | If the three arrows had all had flights … if there 'd been no wind … |
| 15 | Nevertheless , they had all had voted Labour . |
| 16 | I could see at once that they had all had a skinful . |
| 17 | None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together . |
| 18 | Only a few of her friends had been active in the Resistance , but it was clear that neither they nor anyone else much wanted to talk about the choices they had all had to make . |
| 19 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 20 | They had all had a normal haemoglobin concentration . |
| 21 | He had only had the single season at Wakefield when the approach came . |
| 22 | At the end of the third day their water was running short , as each man had only had two pints in his water bottle . |
| 23 | Sandison , who had only had three or four glasses of wine , began to feel light-headed . |
| 24 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 25 | Lorraine Allard had only had four days ' warning before leaving from Berlin : |
| 26 | Jean , at 21 , had only had one other boyfriend . |
| 27 | Meurdesoif , whose firm agreed to pay a £1,250 fine , claimed he had only had a few drinks with lunch on a cross-channel ferry . |
| 28 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 29 | ‘ By the time the squad returned from Norway I had only had two days training all pre-season . |
| 30 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |