had

had
verb /hæd/
a) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (+ past participle).

About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton [...].

b) As past subjunctive: ‘would have’.

Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTVs advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?

See Also: be had

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