Example sentences of "he had have a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor Ryan , he had had a heart of gold . |
| 2 | He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him . |
| 3 | He had had a fight with the insurance inspector and ended up in court charged with Assault . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After he had had a spell at Southern League Bedford Town , Palace awarded Roy a Benefit match on 15 March 1961 in token of his services to our club . |
| 7 | The husband had an extra-marital relationship with another woman by whom he had had a child in September 1985 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The trouble was that Arnold said he had had a letter from a Mr Anderson who wanted to caddie for him as well . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had had a lot of trouble with builders last year . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had had a succession of good hands and won the kitty twice . |
| 17 | At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry . |
| 18 | He had had a series of injuries , he did not have reasonable employment , and a plainly lucrative offer from Japan had appeal . |
| 19 | He then went on to say that he had had a complaint from the men in the next room , that I was using what he could only describe as ‘ a female sex aid device ’ for long periods at night and first thing in the morning . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Since giving up playing the piano in the Soho bar , he had had a job as a receptionist and switchboard operator in a hospice in Kilburn . |
| 22 | On the English side the king 's eldest son , the Black Prince , had grown to manhood anxious to win his share of the glory and profits of war , of which he had had a taste at Crécy . |
| 23 | Internal NRA correspondence leaked to the Independent newspaper showed that the chief executive , John Bowman , had tried to stop the prosecution from going ahead after he had had a meeting with a senior official from the DoE pollution inspectorate . |
| 24 | He could have wandered unchecked all over north London if he had had a mind to it , but this was supposed to be Bienvida 's party and he and Bienvida were supposed to be there . |
| 25 | John Hill says he started racing with a ski boat and then when the engines got bigger he had to have a go at powerboating which he really enjoys … |