Example sentences of "he had [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had previously had a cholecystectomy and appendicectomy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had always had a capacity for ruthlessness . |
| 7 | But he had always had a wish to join the Army , and at sixteen he enlisted as a drummer boy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |