Example sentences of "he [vb past] have a [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Thompson 's solicitor told Ashbourne Court : ‘ He 'd had a drink to try to relax .
2 He would n't say any more until he 'd had a chance to talk it over with a friend , he said . ’
3 He seemed to have a tendency to goad and that would quite clearly lead to trouble .
4 Nevertheless , Paisley was keen to establish a public distinction between these two roles , At an early election meeting in an Orange Hall in the Bannside constituency he arranged to have a friend ask him if Protestant Unionism was just Free Presbyterianism by another name .
5 After all , he did have a pond consisting of Charlie 's last Chinese meal steaming in his crotch .
6 Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him .
7 Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances .
8 The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them .
9 He wondered what was wrong , wishing he had had a chance to talk to Ruth — though from the expression on her face as she hovered behind Cashman she did n't know either .
10 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 .
11 He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses .
12 As he did so Jude asked him if he wanted to have a doctor examine him .
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