Post by Charles BishopPost by Charles BishopAlso, sometimes I write sentences that have ". . .had had. . ." or ".
. .that that. . ." in them. They make sense when I mentally read
them, but they look odd on the page. Of course now, I can't think of
a full example, but I'm hoping to get a hall pass from PTD to ask for
help.
Are such possible and maybe correct?
I remember that I had had some examples in my mind at some point, but I
later
forgot them. They also included some examples of that "that that" that
had
been talked about with friends at the same time.
ady to speak of the share he had had in their moonlight walks and (Jane Austen: Emma)
t all at last! Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Crat (Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol)
e morning after Lord Lambeth had had with his own frankest critic (Henry James: An International Episode)
s of the night air, however, had had its usual effect the mental (Edgar Allan Poe: Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym)
up my brother. O would you had had her! Some one way, some ano (William Shakespeare: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice)
head only said »An Sir Kay had had time to get another skin of s (Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
not pass away from his line, had had the lad sent for, and, in the (Oscar Wilde: A House of Pomegranates)
I were. But if you swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn (William Shakespeare: As You Like It)
I would fain see them meet, that that same young Troyan ass, that (William Shakespeare: The History of Troilus and Cressida)
LAUNCE. That's monstrous. O that that were out! SPEED. »And more w (William Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
our music, gentlemen. Who is that that spake? PRO. One, lady, if yo (William Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona)
always imagined, until now, that that sort of thing belonged to ch (Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
. THER. Nor I, by Pluto; but that that likes not you pleases me bes (William Shakespeare: The History of Troilus and Cressida)
humor of mine, sir, to take that that no man else will. Rich hones (William Shakespeare: As You Like It)
follow next day. It happened that that night, an old gentleman who (Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge)
s chair nearer to the fire, »that that woman could ever be pleasant (Charles Dickens: Barnaby Rudge)
ing a very small limp card, »that that is my address, and that I am (Charles Dickens: The Old Curiosity Shop)
thought,« said I, smiling, »that that was a reason for your being (Charles Dickens: The Personal History of David Copperfield)
(I found more hits. To keep the size of the post small,
I have chosen a few.)