Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The malai jumped a mile-you could see he 'd nearly had a heart-attack — before heading for the ground , shouting our number and whereabouts to his friends . |
| 2 | Which , I later discovered , was most forthcoming for George but he 'd already had a couple of orange squashes himself . |
| 3 | It 's as if he 'd just had a snort of it . |
| 4 | If he 'd only told them he 'd just had a baby , things might have been different . |
| 5 | He 'd just had a stroke |
| 6 | The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’ |
| 7 | He 'd just had a letter from Joan telling him she was pregnant and had already chosen the name Jasmine if the child was a girl . |
| 8 | He 'd once had a drink with him in the Shaftesbury — Johnny , not the dentist — and really , he 'd could n't have been sweeter . |
| 9 | He 'd always had a thing about Famous Last Words . |
| 10 | He could n't understand this exuberant friendliness in a boy he 'd only had a glimpse of twice . |
| 11 | He 'd never had a call from William at work before . |
| 12 | He 'd never had a name as a chaser and I could n't imagine him picking a time like this to start . |
| 13 | He 'd never had a passport anyway . |
| 14 | He had previously had a cholecystectomy and appendicectomy . |
| 15 | As we approached the river , the Trent , which had a bathing-place in the grounds , he mentioned that he had already had a dip and recommended it . |
| 16 | Despite his consummate low-flying ability he had already had a brush with some trees and had also once even grazed the ground in a Mosquito . |
| 17 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |
| 18 | Returning to Wollheim 's analogy : when the reader of the porn performs , as internal actor , his fantasy , he is left , as internal audience , in a state that simulates the state he would be in if he had actually had a relationship with a woman like the imagined one . |
| 19 | He had always had a capacity for ruthlessness . |
| 20 | But he had always had a wish to join the Army , and at sixteen he enlisted as a drummer boy . |
| 21 | As he reclined in his sofa , surrounded by a treasure trove of knick-knacks collected from around the world , Mark said he had always had a taste for travel . |
| 22 | He took his account of the little balance as well as some research on centres of gravity and travelled to Rome to impress a couple of eminent intellectuals , and he succeeded , being appointed professor of mathematics at Pisa when he was 25 , though he had never had a university degree . |
| 23 | He had never had a dog and now that one of his daughters was married and the other a student at drama school , he saw no reason why he should ever give one house-room . |