Example sentences of "the [noun] had had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince had had an inkling of what was to come in Wales , when the crowds had been so eager to see Diana that they could scarcely hide their disappointment if Charles and Diana took one side of the street each and they were on the side of the street he took . |
| 2 | The Prince had had all the men up on deck scanning the river with the aid of oil lamps . |
| 3 | To borrow a phrase from a biography of Van Gogh , the writer had had the advantage of having the artist as a coauthor . |
| 4 | Large sums of money were missing from the business , and while his colleagues now realised that her father was ill — and obviously had n't deliberately intended to commit any kind of fraud — nevertheless , the money had had to be replaced as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | When the long-awaited Invasion finally started , we were sure that the lives which had been lost were now going to be partly justified , because the boot was definitely on the other foot and the Germans had had it . |
| 6 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 7 | The Archdeacon had had enough . |
| 8 | Theodora suspected that this was not an exercise that either the Bishop or the Archdeacon had had to perform before . |
| 9 | If the kitchen had had a serving hatch , I could have scared the living daylights out of them . |
| 10 | The wave had had its ropes cut and was erupting in an avalanche of fury that would bury everything in its path . |
| 11 | If the authorities had had any sense , they would have closed the cafes . ’ |
| 12 | Since 1870 , Banks insisted , the association had had an office in the town devoted exclusively to the rescue of women and children . |
| 13 | Commentators suggested that the attempt had had the support of wealthy former politicians , whose ambitions had been foiled by Babangida 's refusal to allow the " old guard " of politicians to stand for office on the return to party politics . |
| 14 | Among the lands earlier ceded to the abbey of St Denis was the Vexin français , that natural bulwark between the French royal demesne and the now hostile Norman duchy , which had been held as a Norman fief , had formed part of Simon de Crépy 's state ( see p. 216 ) , and finally was reclaimed for the French crown by Philip I. The Vexin had had a comital family , in origin probably the advocates for the abbey ; but Philip had bypassed their claims , granting the territory to the young prince Louis , who met with such opposition in the area that it was not until 1119 that his possession was secured . |
| 15 | He threw the hoe to the ground , hoped that at least the pig had had a good meal , and want back inside his church . |
| 16 | During the meeting Yassir Arafat , the PLO chair , stressed that the PLO had had no alternative but to support Iraq during the Gulf war . |
| 17 | But to be fair , none of the drivers had had that Mr Major or Mr Kinnock or Mr Ashdown in the back of the cab . |
| 18 | But the succession had had to take place . |
| 19 | The Stuarts had had their chance and failed to seize it . |
| 20 | Outside the wind had had its cutting edge dulled — possibly against the bones of my shoulders — and was wimpering miserably around the building , occasionally offering an aggressive bark . |
| 21 | On the way home , the car had had a tendency to wander from one lane to another on the road . |
| 22 | The few parents in the study had had children relatively late , when they had established reputations which would bridge a career break . |
| 23 | It must have been obvious to the jury that these witnesses were in a special position , one as the husband of a woman with whom the defendant had had an intimate relationship and the other as the sister of the deceased , whom the defendant had shot , according to himself , accidentally . |
| 24 | This factor … should make the court the more cautious before holding that the defendant had had both a factual possession and animus possidendi sufficient to confer on him a possessory title … |
| 25 | It was upheld by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at Maastricht , but it would have been undermined if the Leader of the Opposition had had anything to do with governing the country . |
| 26 | All Léonie managed to discover from the postman 's hints was that the priest had had the bones taken away for a quick burial in the cemetery with as few people present as possible , and that people were still visiting the site of the apparitions , waiting to see whether Thérèse would go back . |
| 27 | We 'd all kept away from it ever since the priest had had it pulled down the month before . |
| 28 | She would not have been surprised if The Towers had had dungeons to store them in . |
| 29 | She goes on to say that the justices came to the view that the justice on the Friday had had no power to remand Mr. Bell in custody until the Monday , as the remand did not fall within the terms of section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 and that , accordingly , they no longer had any jurisdiction to hear the matter . |
| 30 | The boat had had no luck on the West coast . |