Example sentences of "he [verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ That 's good stuff , ’ he acknowledged after he 'd had a deep draught . |
| 32 | The CO sat in another rain-washed tent to receive Charles 's fairly smart salute and ask him if he 'd had a good day . |
| 33 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
| 34 | If I was a less trusting soul I 'd have said he 'd had a good lunch . |
| 35 | I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself . |
| 36 | And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh . |
| 37 | He 'd had a good line going with a number of the wives out here — what man had n't ? |
| 38 | You could get the odds because he 'd had a poor year until then by his standards . |
| 39 | He 'd had a blazing row with a ‘ Foreign Office Johnnie ’ , and was on the point of bursting when a third voice had come onto the line . |
| 40 | ‘ I believe they behaved as if he 'd had a fortunate escape — condemned Isabelle as an aventurière , and worse . |
| 41 | He 'd had a serious liaison before the war with a young girl whom he 'd got pregnant . |
| 42 | Two years earlier he 'd had a privatised council house in East Ham , a nice little business and his family . |
| 43 | If he 'd had a nice meal by the fire and the box to watch and no screaming and yelling he 'd have stayed in like Hoomey . |
| 44 | With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England . |
| 45 | He 'd had a real pimple when he arrived , but during the time he took to find and bribe an official to provide the documents , the blemish had healed , . |
| 46 | But I I thought then he 'd had a slight stroke so to make him |
| 47 | It was quite unlike Ace to have left her to carry her own baggage , but of course he 'd had a hard race . |
| 48 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |
| 49 | Well not too early because he 'd had a hard day . |
| 50 | when he 'd said he 'd had a bad experience . |
| 51 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 52 | He felt odd , queer , as if he 'd had a bad dream . |
| 53 | He 'd had a bad shave and his hair looked as if it was growing back after having been cut too short . |
| 54 | Marius had a history of heart trouble — you say he 'd had a minor attack before you went to France in the summer . |
| 55 | It was as if he 'd had a sudden glimpse of a side of himself he did n't know , a side that was dark and uncontrolled . |
| 56 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 57 | Anyway , he disappeared soon after you left — told Stella he 'd had a heavy day and was off to bed with a book . |
| 58 | Its strong beat had been a friend beside his ear at night as he lay thinking , or when he woke to have a quiet smoke in the darkness . |
| 59 | He seemed to have a solid grasp of what it 's really like to live in one of these estates . |
| 60 | He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " . |