Example sentences of "he [vb past] have a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
| 2 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 3 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 4 | He 'd had a bit of a raw deal . |
| 5 | When I spoke to Travis the other day I understood he 'd had a change of heart . ’ |
| 6 | Scotty was weary , the gigs were far apart , he 'd had a touch of the ‘ flu and , at over 60 , really did n't feel up to it . |
| 7 | Thus , when Dennis offered him exactly half what he had been making , Lauda thought he 'd had a touch of sun . |
| 8 | Ed told me he 'd had a lot of bitter arguments about this plan with Hauser . ’ |
| 9 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 10 | Turner was suspicious of the other man , as he quite rightly should have been ; but he 'd had a whiff of something he especially did n't like , which considering who and what Ray Doyle was , was an amazing mistake to make . |
| 11 | He seemed to have a score of hands and a hundred musical fingers . |
| 12 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 13 | Maybe he did have a bit of something — cunning , animal cunning . |
| 14 | Though he did have a bit of a tan , unlike most of the men over here . |
| 15 | He did have a habit of railroading her into things , but she knew she would be crazy to refuse . |
| 16 | However he did have a lot of good things to saya bout Leeds when we were winning the title . |
| 17 | Poor Ryan , he had had a heart of gold . |
| 18 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 19 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 20 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 21 | He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them . |
| 22 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |
| 23 | He had had a lot of practice in persuading bullies not to thump him , and now he recognized in Simon , only too well , all the signs of a violent , bullying , and unpredictable nature . |
| 24 | He had had a lot of trouble with builders last year . |
| 25 | He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had had a succession of good hands and won the kitty twice . |
| 28 | He had had a series of injuries , he did not have reasonable employment , and a plainly lucrative offer from Japan had appeal . |
| 29 | On the romantic front he had had a string of engaging and pretty girlfriends , not least of all the vivacious flame-haired Lady Sarah Spencer . |
| 30 | He longed to have a car of his own . |