Example sentences of "[adv] he has [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Naturally he has expressed a desire to see you , but if his wishes are to be fulfilled you must leave for France at once .
2 But erm lately he has got a lot worse .
3 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 ) .
4 Quite possibly he has got a flea duck .
5 Now he has commercialised a method to recover the drugs , first developed by Dr Chris Lowe of Cambridge University .
6 Now he has become a pain in the neck to the establishment .
7 Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job .
8 Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute .
9 Well he has got a job you know
10 Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening .
11 If he wept because he saw another world beyond sensible things , that , after all , is called ‘ Water of the Eyes ’ , then he has seen a thing which is a congener and perfecter of prayer , that is the object of prayer and his prayer is in order and even more perfect .
12 If , on the other hand , B is already the heir of A , then he has received a benefit under A 's estate , and so far as that benefit extends he may be asked to make over property to C. If he does so , however , this is regarded as restitution of property from A 's estate rather than as an institution to B's own estate .
13 He was ordained to St Paul 's Mobile Church Society in 1987 and since then he has gathered a flock of more than 2,000 pensioners in the region .
14 Since then he has held a number of positions both in this country and abroad while serving with the RAF .
15 Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea .
16 He is putting his faith in an appeal to create an endowment fund , and recently he has received a grant from the new libraries programme of the EC , to exchange and coordinate information between the Witt , the Rijksbureau in The Hague , and Trinity College , Dublin .
17 Sangster agrees that there were some worrying times but points out that worldwide he has achieved a century of winners for each of the past 10 years .
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