Example sentences of "he had [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Coming home from the match I recognised our school headmaster , Mr Mick Metcalfe — he had also had an afternoon off school to go to the match , ’ adds Mr Thwaites , who is now a head teacher himself , of St Peter 's C.E. Primary School , Saltburn . |
| 2 | ‘ I could see that he had not had a drink yet and I was doubly surprised that he seemed in a good mood . ’ |
| 3 | It dawned on him that he had not had a date for weeks , and his first one would be with her at the Edwardian Ball . |
| 4 | ‘ When we understood what he meant to do , we endeavoured to dissuade him ; but he was resolute , saying he had not had a roll for a long time ; and taking out of his pockets whatever might be in them — keys , pencil , purse , or pen-knife — and laying himself parallel with the edge of the hill , he actually descended turning himself over and over till he came to the bottom . ’ |
| 5 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 6 | He had previously had a cholecystectomy and appendicectomy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Outside , the sun lashed him across the forehead with a warning of another headache to come , and he wished he had n't had a drink with lunch at paderborn . |
| 10 | He had n't had a clothing parcel for a long time . |
| 11 | He had n't had a book out . |
| 12 | He wrote his plea as follows : if he had n't had a reply from her before noon on the last day of the week ( which meant return post ) he would trouble her no more . |
| 13 | Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he had n't had an audience , and lines to speak ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had always had a capacity for ruthlessness . |
| 17 | But he had always had a wish to join the Army , and at sixteen he enlisted as a drummer boy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was quite clever , Dad , in his way , but he had never had an education . |