Example sentences of "he [verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless you 're like my Uncle Joe — a fox got his best foot , 'e 'ad to have a wooden leg , 'e was livid . ’ |
| 2 | I should state here that Cizek only takes children nowadays whom he thinks have a certain aptitude for drawing and painting . |
| 3 | ‘ Howey made one mistake , but he has had a tremendous season so far and I have no need to worry about him . |
| 4 | He has had a solid connection with the orchestra and the Scottish music scene ever since , and has been responsible for bringing some unusual works to the concert platform in the past . |
| 5 | He has the distance in him , he ran the National last year , albeit without finishing , and he has had a solid season . |
| 6 | He jumps at home only when he has had a long rest and needs a quick reminder of what the job is all about ; otherwise his jumping is confined to the shows . |
| 7 | Although he has had a good response from his three other beers , production is still only two barrels a week . |
| 8 | He has had a terrible month , ’ said Balding , referring to the fact that Frost has also lost the ride today on Morley Street , who attempts a hat-trick in the Martell Aintree Hurdle , with Richard Dunwoody aboard . |
| 9 | But do the movements ‘ convey information ’ to fellow workers in the hive in any more semantic a fashion than , say , a bruise on a child 's face conveys to his mother the information that he has had a nasty bump ? |
| 10 | HE HAS had a great run . |
| 11 | ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage . |
| 12 | The bishop 's hobbies include reading and walking and since his student days he has had a great interest in church and choral music . |
| 13 | ‘ He has had a great season . |
| 14 | ‘ He has had a sad time looking for work in London and intends to go back to the North-East with his parents as soon as possible , ’ said David Martin , defending . |
| 15 | Hayden Phillips , smooth , urbane , the kind of establishment figure that the Thatcherites liked to take on , he has had a brilliant career which started in the Home Office , took him to Brussels as chef de cabinet to Roy Jenkins and then to the Treasury as Deputy Secretary . |
| 16 | No but I mean he has had a bad start |
| 17 | On the tricky fact that some passengers have more money than others ( and Mr Pannick 's taxi has been stopped very frequently by the government in recent years ; he has had a special sign on it since 1988 that says ‘ Junior council to the Crown , common law ’ ) , the author declares that the authorities ‘ must make expenditre reon legal aid a high priority and that the defects in the structure of legal aid are in need of urgent repair ’ . |
| 18 | So the , the upshot of it all , is he 's banned for two races , but this is a susp suspended erm , ban over two months , er er , over six months rather , so it means that if he 's a good boy over the next six months he wo n't miss any races at all , so he has had a lucky escape . |
| 19 | The fans support him because he has had a raw deal . |
| 20 | Does that mean he has had a drastic change of heart or is it just that he thinks , along with many of his colleagues , that there is electoral advantage in keeping this quiet at the moment ? |
| 21 | He has had a distinguished career as a businessman and a politician and , on two occasions , has been the Cabinet Minister responsible for UK energy matters . |
| 22 | He has had a feverish complaint and has been blooded . |
| 23 | I do n't know but an ordinary barge used to have a little wooden crate and he want to have a little tank , they put a fixed charge on of two and six pence that 's what they done . |
| 24 | A man gets tired of his business and his family , and he wants to have a good time . |
| 25 | An example of this is found in , in a recent book by Richard Dawkins , where , and here I quote Dawkins , Dawkins says Lamarckians are traditionally fond of calluses , that is you know , erm , hardened skin , thickened skin , like on the sole of your feet , and he contrasts these Lamarckians who like callouses , with the Darwinian , who he says has a ready answer , in terms of natural selection . |
| 26 | well although he told me he 'd er , he 'd , well he 'd had a reasonable catch he 'd er , remember them , bring one up |
| 27 | The barman looked like he 'd had a long day 's journey into night , although the monocle and the silk smoking-jacket were as natty as ninepence . |
| 28 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |
| 29 | " Ennalls drowned himself because his fiance threw him over and he 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 30 | He 'd had a separate telephone line installed ; she lived with that . |