Example sentences of "[noun] he have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And then in the living room we 've got an umbrella stand with two stout walking sticks and a Samurai ceremonial sword , and on the Welsh dresser in the kitchen there 's a lemon squeezer full of ammonia , and on top of the wardrobe in the bedroom he 's got an air pistol that fires steel ball-bearings … |
| 2 | Yeah , Mike , Mike and , he 's erm I do n't think he 's , I think he will be able to in future he 's got a meeting arranged tonight and he 'll be here next time . |
| 3 | In Kee 's fine dark eyes he had read a call for help . |
| 4 | He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship . |
| 5 | At Cromcruach he 'd met a mechanic named Mike , who seemed in a terrible state . |
| 6 | you think that if you work if you , if you think about it , in other words he has married a woman who is the mother of a wife of his father who he calls mother . |
| 7 | ‘ By signalling the end for the trade union block vote he has brought an air of realism which was so markedly absent under Neil Kinnock . ’ |
| 8 | There it is , God in his mercy and his love , in his graciousness he has provided a gift , a free package gift for you and for me forgiveness , salvation but there is our responsibility of receiving it or taking hold of it , of experiencing it . |
| 9 | In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign . |
| 10 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 11 | But in the last few months he 's had a lot to cope with following the death of his best friend in a road accident . |
| 12 | No wonder he had seemed a bit on edge . |
| 13 | He grew flowers on the graves : last winter he had started a cemetery at the bottom of the garden and stuck in a big cross for a sign . |
| 14 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 15 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 16 | As a child he had played a game with some of his friends where one child would stand behind another and put his hands round the other 's chest . |
| 17 | To the last moment he had feared a trap , but this was the fresh air before him , the dim air of the ravine he knew , hemmed in with rock on both sides between the church and the castle . |
| 18 | In fact , Botham did have an excuse , in that before the match he had received a death threat . |
| 19 | By the Ptolemaic Period he had become a god of healing and thus was associated with Imhotep in the Theban temples of Deir el-Medina and Deir el-Bahri . |
| 20 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 21 | Evening he 's earned a pint of beer I think tonight . |
| 22 | For his funeral he had made a list of people he wanted invited ( they did not include any Japanese ) , the lessons he wanted read , the hymns he wanted sung . |
| 23 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |
| 24 | As well as his chemical discoveries he had made a reputation for himself from his electrical investigations . |
| 25 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 26 | There was something unique about a hospital over the Christmas period , and most years he 'd made a point of working for as much of it as he could . |
| 27 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 28 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 29 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 30 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |