Example sentences of "[noun] he has [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign .
4 ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them .
5 In the last ten years he has used a prostitute about 20 times .
6 Establishing the defence might be very important to the manufacturer if over the years he has supplied a lot of such gloves and a lot of wearers have suffered arthritis because of them .
7 For almost a decade he has led a series of protest demonstrations outside abortion clinics throughout England , running foul of the law on countless occasions .
8 In drawing a miner he has made a self-portrait .
9 In middle age he has experienced a breakdown , an identity crisis , which followed a long illness and an operation .
10 After meeting staff he has made a plea to agency chiefs to delay the transfer so that full consultations can take place .
11 At some point or other in his career he has played a transvestite , a hunchback , a priest , a sado-masochist and an assortment of thugs .
12 When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is .
13 In the loft of his small terraced cottage he has constructed a training facility : a hinged wooden board dotted with artificial holds , which can be swung to any angle from very overhanging to ludicrously overhanging .
14 JOHN THAW has taken his role in the television version of A Life In Provence so much to heart he has bought a home in the idyllic French region .
15 With this growing experience he has found a means to fight more effectively for social justice and the needs of his fellow-workers .
16 Until this year he has used a lot of bedding plants to add colour .
17 Apart from jumpers he has knitted a jacket , scarves , a three-foot banana ( which became a cushion ) and numerous ties .
18 Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent .
19 Des Thompson , a specialist in animal heart disease , carried out the operation at his Earlswood surgery in Belmont Road , Belfast — only the third time he has fitted a pacemaker .
20 In his time he has tried a lot of things : card-sharping , prison , wife-thrashing and perhaps wife-murder , child-violation , even good works .
21 Time after time he has had a tournament in his pocket only for a miracle shot from a rival to steal it away .
22 Alan Davies did , and as a stand-up comedian he has refined a form for its expression that the live circuit and television like .
23 Mr Chance has written a book based on the many talks he has given , papers he has written and conferences he has attended a record of his years working with the mentally handicapped .
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