Example sentences of "[adv] he have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
2 | Naturally he has expressed a desire to see you , but if his wishes are to be fulfilled you must leave for France at once . |
3 | or and apparently he 'd lost a strip . |
4 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
5 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
6 | Perhaps he 's got a beer stomach has he ? |
7 | ‘ Perhaps he 's had an accident , ’ said Peter . |
8 | ( Obviously he had read a book on wine too . ) |
9 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
10 | So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only . |
11 | So he 's done a kind of conjuring trick here . |
12 | So he 's got a gun . |
13 | So he 's got an appointment ? |
14 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
15 | All around him , backstabbing and financial disaster fomented chaos , inside he had discovered a universe of beauty and order . |
16 | He 's got a lot of matches this week , he 's got he was on duty last night from six to ten , this morning he 's got a match , tonight he 's got a match ! |
17 | Except somehow he 'd made a mistake , picked the wrong woman . |
18 | The officer was duly fetched in and asked whether or not he had taken a statement from Wells . |
19 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
20 | Already he had developed an interest in military history , particularly in the campaigns of Napoleon . |
21 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |
22 | But erm lately he has got a lot worse . |
23 | However there are a number of important controlling factors : firstly , the subject fixates centrally ( usually he has to report a digit which is presented in order to confirm this central fixation ) ; secondly , the stimulus is exposed for less than 200 milliseconds to avoid eye movement ; thirdly , the visual angle of the stimuli from the fixation point should be between 2.5° and 5° ( otherwise , confounding effects occur ) . |
24 | Former pop star Dave Clark , who owns the rights to the Sixties music show , said yesterday he had clinched a deal with Channel 4 to screen 13 of the original episodes next year . |
25 | While he had been kicking his heels yesterday he had spent an hour in a tiny bookshop in Curzon Street and had come away with a paperback edition of the Parsons Rosenberg and the Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes 's anthology . |
26 | Quite possibly he has got a flea duck . |
27 | I have known him to come home he 's had a weekend off with a kitbag full of fish , beautiful fish he used to bring home cos no sooner on the train and right home |
28 | And she knew only too well how stubborn Julius could be once he had got an idea inside his head . |
29 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
30 | Hence he had to get an album out sharpish and also undertake a tour of some sort . |