Example sentences of "he had have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
| 2 | For he had had a peaceful life of it with Yanek , up on the mountain . |
| 3 | He had had a long day at the hospital and the drive down from London had not been easy . |
| 4 | He had had a long drive and , in the face of great provocation , behaved , on the whole , exceedingly well . |
| 5 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 6 | He had had a personal hand in the arrest of Ned Turner . |
| 7 | He believed he had had a determining influence on Modigliani 's evolution although the painter was too haughty to admit it . |
| 8 | I was sure he had had a gloating look in his eyes when he found out I had been robbed . |
| 9 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 10 | But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow . |
| 11 | When he got back , Pat asked him if he had had a good holiday . |
| 12 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
| 13 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , since everyone 's giving speeches , I may as well take a turn , ’ he said , and it was at once apparent from his voice that he had had a good deal to drink . |
| 15 | He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues . |
| 16 | Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this . |
| 17 | In 1880 he had had a political fling and stood as a Liberal candidate for the City of London in favour of disestablishment , temperance legislation , social and political reform . |
| 18 | Ken replied , Orton later wrote in his own diary , that he had had a similar experience in Beirut and had ‘ paid twelve guineas a night for the privilege . ’ |
| 19 | Seddon was n't , saying that he had had a late tea . |
| 20 | As a young man he had had a strong desire to visit the United States and decided to go there for a holiday , but as the liner approached New York , he dreamed that his mother ( to whom he was not particularly strongly attached ) was lonely and missed him , and this dream made him terribly homesick . |
| 21 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 22 | ‘ His engineer would not take over as he had had a full day 's terror , so I volunteered to take over engine control in his place . |
| 23 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 24 | He had had a long-lasting bout of influenza early in the year which antibiotics did n't alleviate , and the attack had weakened him somewhat . |
| 25 | For someone she had met only once he had had a remarkable impact on her . |
| 26 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
| 27 | He had had a distinguished war , being wounded once and decorated twice , and had spent the next five years recreating it in a series of patriotic British movies . |
| 28 | He told me how , when he had first moved there , the local MP had written to him congratulating him on his climbing and mentioning that he had had a one-legged uncle who climbed . |
| 29 | Before Father Kendrick had set off for his new city parish — racial mix , boys ' club , mothers ' union , young people 's fellowship ; the proper challenge for a mildly high-church , ambitious young priest with one eye on a mitre — he had had a brief word about Beryl McBride . |
| 30 | He had had a stiff greeting that morning from the Grand Commander Louis de Magnac , whom he had tricked over Loppe , and again on shipboard coming from Rhodes . |