Example sentences of "had [vb pp] have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the initial injury he had received had healed in a relatively short period of time , he had been left with a pain in his left knee ; this was aggravated whenever he put pressure on the joint concerned , as in walking or even just standing . |
| 2 | The ordeal she had expected had turned into fun . |
| 3 | In addition to the treaty , a letter was signed by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the West German Foreign Minister , and by Lothar de Maizière , the East German Prime Minister and Foreign Minister , giving assurances to the allied Foreign Ministers on issues which the Soviet Union in particular had sought to have included in the treaty itself . |
| 4 | Everything they had seen had registered in their subconscious mind without them even being aware of it and , using hypnosis , it was possible for them to recall facts and images they did not even realise they knew . |
| 5 | McAllister 's thoughts were growing nastier and nastier , but she could not endure the sight of the woman who Matey had said had trampled on Dr Neil and rejected him after he had sustained his war wounds and started his new career as a doctor . |
| 6 | She looked for the other , older brother whom Henry had said had died during the war , Leonard was it ? |
| 7 | The inability of O'Neill and Chichester-Clark to satisfy those demands without destabilizing the state had created the very condition that people such as Paisley had argued had obtained from the first : the rise of old-fashioned nationalist anti-partitionism . |
| 8 | This was considered serious enough by the Keraing to have supplied Tandri with the cost of a new mast which he had promised to have cut from the forest of Bouton , an island we knew nothing about on the south-east of Celebes , a two-day sail across the Gulf of Palopo . |
| 9 | Another funny thing she had had to have explained to her was why some grown-ups would go to the Ragged School at night time . |
| 10 | The interest that the young woman had engendered had spread beyond the fishmonger 's stall . |
| 11 | Like her they were teenagers , like her they had enjoyed a smash hit first single , like her they had happened to have come from somewhere other than Britain . |
| 12 | The motor manufacturer is not going to be best pleased to discover that the aircraft he though he had retained has hopped to Ibiza with a load of spotty would-be tourists from Kettering . |
| 13 | She said that the act Timothy Gedge had devised had to do with the Brides in the Bath . |
| 14 | Local residents again pointed out that so far all the dust that had blown had come from one three-acre section of the lake : ‘ The worry is that if it 's not attended to and if the entire 150 acres rise up and start blowing at the same time it could be a national disaster . |