Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man , wearing just sunglasses to disguise himself , is reaching into a plastic bag where he claims to have a gun and a grenade . |
| 2 | Nick is only a bystander , like the reader , and fairly impartial , although he does have a character of his own and separate events involved in his life , apart from Daisy and Gatsby . |
| 3 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed . |
| 4 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |
| 5 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 6 | He was taken to the city 's main hospital where it was confirmed that he 'd had a heart attack . |
| 7 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 8 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 9 | Minton replied that he had had a girl the night before . |
| 10 | He then went on to say that he had had a complaint from the men in the next room , that I was using what he could only describe as ‘ a female sex aid device ’ for long periods at night and first thing in the morning . |
| 11 | As Hollywood history has shown , Curtis recognized that he did have a drug problem when , in 1984 , he admitted himself into the Betty Ford Alcoholic and Drugs Treatment Center for treatment for his drug abuse and alcoholism . |
| 12 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 13 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 14 | And , checking back , the Sounds review of the time ( in which journalist Rab claims that he 's had a tape since November 1980 ) provided the release with a five star rating , while NME was mildly less enthusiastic , observing that ‘ it 's an odd LP , naturally flawed and imperfect and rather stilted in places but nonetheless a worthy attempt at indisciplinary entertainment . ’ |
| 15 | At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio . |
| 16 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 17 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 18 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |
| 19 | He had known where the coal was kept , and the Calor gas poker , and he had had a key — which , now that I thought about it , I should certainly have asked him to hand over to me … |
| 20 | He'd' 've had really , well this is the he goes back on Monday and he 've had a month off been off for a month . |
| 21 | He was having an affair somewhere and he 'd had a child by her . |
| 22 | For Perkin , making arrows would have been like filing his nails , and he 'd had a stove right in his workroom for the charring . |
| 23 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 24 | And that made me wonder if you were in it , too , and he 'd had a rendezvous at the cottage . |
| 25 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |
| 26 | Chris believes that the constant temperatures provided by heaterstats are not good for the fish and he does have a point — where in the world does the water temperature remain stable all year round , both day and night ? |
| 27 | there and Grange , and he 's had a bit to drink , he was n't drunk , but |
| 28 | They are DEVOTED to each other — she 's seeing a toy boy and he 's had a mistress for the last fourteen years |
| 29 | And he 's had a glimpse of hell . |
| 30 | He 's five foot two and a half , he walks with a limp , he plays the piano and he 's had a string of beautiful girlfriends . |