Example sentences of "[subord] he had have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him . |
| 4 | She looked up at his face , unattractively blotched by the morning chill , at the grubby stubble , at the two brittle hairs at the corners of his mouth , at the trace of blackened blood in the left nostril , as if he had had a nose bleed , at the eyes , still gummy with sleep . |
| 5 | Cameron could sense James Menzies fidgeting and breathing beside him and he wondered if he had had a dram . |
| 6 | He could have wandered unchecked all over north London if he had had a mind to it , but this was supposed to be Bienvida 's party and he and Bienvida were supposed to be there . |
| 7 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |
| 8 | Yet great as his gifts were to us , they would surely have been even greater if he had had the knowledge we now possess and especially the translations of the poets and mystics of the orient . |
| 9 | He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ? |
| 10 | In any event , the judge awarded the whole of his estimate of the increased price which would have been obtained whereas the correct measure of damage for a failure to disclose the material facts was the loss to the plaintiff of the chance of negotiating an increased price if he had had the information . |
| 11 | If he had had the strength he would have broken the flute , but his left hand was too weak to apply the necessary force . |
| 12 | Thus , the purpose of a rent review clause is not to revalue the original bargain between the parties , but to give the landlord the income which he would have got , on the terms on which he would have let , if he had had the property in hand on the rent review date . |
| 13 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |
| 15 | After setting an Open championship tournament record 283 , Sarazen said it was because he had had the sense to listen to his caddie at every tricky point through the tournament , calling Daniels ' club selection ‘ brilliant ’ , and his understanding of Sarazen 's sometimes less-than-cautious temperament uncanny . |
| 16 | After he had had a spell at Southern League Bedford Town , Palace awarded Roy a Benefit match on 15 March 1961 in token of his services to our club . |
| 17 | Internal NRA correspondence leaked to the Independent newspaper showed that the chief executive , John Bowman , had tried to stop the prosecution from going ahead after he had had a meeting with a senior official from the DoE pollution inspectorate . |
| 18 | After he had had a sandwich m the Market Burger House , he loaded the van with small stuff to be returned and went out delivering . |
| 19 | The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them . |
| 20 | He had recruited Auden long ago — years before he had had the man appointed sergeant under Ebert — but Hammerfest had been a heaven-sent opportunity . |
| 21 | Ventris died before he had had the time to turn his attentions to Linear A , about which he is reported to have had some initial ideas . |
| 22 | If only he had paid more attention when he had had the chance . |
| 23 | Finn had designed it , when he had had the heart to be pastoral . |
| 24 | But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all . |
| 25 | Just as he had had the nerve to try to pick up the casting director at his first audition , so he had the taste and — in sociological terms — the cheek to seek out the stylish and lovely Nina Bawden , later the novelist . |