Example sentences of "[coord] he have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 2 | She had seen her general practitioner a week after the separation and he had prescribed a tranquillizer . |
| 3 | Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk . |
| 4 | And he had done a lot of mischief in there . |
| 5 | He got her in to see an agent who was a friend of Jock Lennox , and he had arranged an appointment with a producer who was sending out a show with the American Ragtime Octette and Cissie Loftus the impressionist , as well as The Ramblers , a famous juggling act , and an Australian called Pansy Montague , who toured as La Milo , an exponent of the art of living statues . |
| 6 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
| 7 | She had put her key in the front door and he had engaged a gear to take the car round to the garage when his instinct reasserted itself . |
| 8 | He had his back to me , and he had grown a beard , but his hair was still thick and blond . |
| 9 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 10 | There was massive bruising , and he had lost a lot of blood in the night . |
| 11 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 12 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 13 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 14 | The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech . |
| 15 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 16 | " Right then , " he said , when operations were satisfactorily completed and he had taken a swill of ale , " let's not back and fill , let's have everything full and by . " |
| 17 | She had snipped , and he had taken a lock . |
| 18 | In a moment the paper was back in its folder , and he had taken a step away from her . |
| 19 | And he had found a tumbler and another bottle of Famous Grouse from which he 'd taken , at most , two tots . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | The person giving it may not realise the full legal consequences of it as regards the release of a co-debtor ; but that is not , in my opinion , a sufficient ground for reading into the document something that is not expressed in it ; and unless you find in it something qualifying the general words , it appears to me that the legal consequences of the general words of discharge must follow , notwithstanding that those consequences may go beyond what the person giving the document would have intended if they had been pointed out to him at the time , and he had had an opportunity of addressing his mind to them . |
| 23 | he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again . |
| 24 | His ship had been in Japan just after the surrender and he had enjoyed a couple of visits to the bath houses in Yokohama A part of the treatment there had included an exhilarating massage carried out by a young girl who , by standing on his inert naked body , and by using her body weight as a substitute for arm muscle , had given him an unforgettable massage with her bare feet . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The icebox was packed with beer and he 'd prepared a lobster salad that he 'd left on ice . |
| 27 | And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun ! |
| 28 | Her prolonged absence had affected his concentration , and he 'd made a hash of the signature of Percy Bysshe Shelley . |
| 29 | He was fair and quite softly-spoken and actually a little shy-looking , and he 'd made a point of taking off his uniform cap when he talked to her . |
| 30 | But he came more than he might have and he 'd done a bit with the bells in his heyday . |