Example sentences of "he [verb] have an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | almost every he pass he made had an incorrect address — when back at the side he looked somehow better — a good thing to get £500,000 for the guy if plays like that all the time . |
| 2 | He has had an unhappy life , when all is said and done , unhappy in the personal department . |
| 3 | Joe , who was an outstanding goalkeeper in the Irish League and had a spell of management with Ards , has been looking after Ireland 's senior badminton players since the 1978 European championships in Preston and over the years he has had an excellent working relationship with the players , motivating them and looking after their fitness . |
| 4 | He has had an inconsistent side to handle for much of the summer . |
| 5 | At that point he needs to have an uninterrupted view of the audience and they need a clear view of him . |
| 6 | He 'd had an addled idea that he wanted to stand there all night , so that first thing in the morning he could approach the kids and explain to them what it was he was after . |
| 7 | He 'd had an intense affair at Oxford which had drifted through almost a dozen years of indeterminate life and ended in a brutal rejection . |
| 8 | He 'd had an irrational feeling that something must have happened in his absence , simply because he had n't been there , but he was wrong . |
| 9 | But then he 'd , apparently he seemed to have an older brother with him |
| 10 | Mariátegui 's assertion of the need for a socialist revolution excluded the possibility of coopting the bourgeoisie , whom he believed had an intrinsic interest in collaborating with imperialism . |
| 11 | After two hours of fishing Peter hooked a large eel which he felt had an excellent chance of winning the £100 prize . |
| 12 | He became a pariah although he did have an avid following amongst some of the more radical left-wing students who regarded him as something of a guru . ’ |
| 13 | Although he has spent most of his working life in academia he did have an eight- year stint , from 1963 , in industrial research . |
| 14 | ‘ I believe he did have an occasional Guardsman home , ’ said Ray . |
| 15 | ‘ Not now , that 's true , but he did have an older brother , who died nine years ago . ’ |
| 16 | It 's a cliché to say that the judge had a difficult task but indeed he did have an unenviable job . |
| 17 | However inadequate his predictions proved in the twentieth century , Marx 's appeal remains incomprehensible unless it is recognized that he did have an unsurpassed grasp of nineteenth-century capitalism . |
| 18 | Having attempted to define the campaign 's agenda on the basis of " family values " , Bush was also severely embarrassed by a front page story carried in the New York Post on Aug. 11 which alleged that he had had an extra-marital affair with Jennifer Fitzgerald , a former personal assistant and a current protocol officer in the State Department . |
| 19 | He had had an unhappy home life as a child and his youth was marked by a certain amount of delinquency . |
| 20 | He had had an English half-sister , much older than him . |
| 21 | He had to have an ulterior motive . |
| 22 | The thing that about Bill is , he does have an amazing amount of labour saving gear , like electric hedge shears trimmers , and erm |
| 23 | He wanted to have an international entertainment conglomerate , which was MainMan . |
| 24 | Mm , I do n't think so but er he 's had an awful struggle with that because he said Buckley 's one of the worse places and no interest at all |
| 25 | Yes , but particularly with reference to John Major , I think he 's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote , and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him , and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and |
| 26 | about the Olympic champion , he 'll be in Rome , he 'll be ready for the World Championships , I think he 's had an easy summer so far , but we 've got the likes of Sergio Lopez who 's just taken my European record away , there 's two Americans ; Kirl Stattel and Mike Barryman who 've just gone under the old World Record , so there 's perhaps a dozen of us that are really shouting and trying to get up to number one position . |
| 27 | He 's had an electric bill has n't he for god knows how much . |
| 28 | Poor little chap , he 's had an ugly day , " she said . |