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

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1 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 .
2 Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances .
3 The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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