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

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1 He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop .
2 However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) .
3 She had seen her general practitioner a week after the separation and he had prescribed a tranquillizer .
4 Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk .
5 And he had done a lot of mischief in there .
6 In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return .
7 She had put her key in the front door and he had engaged a gear to take the car round to the garage when his instinct reasserted itself .
8 He had his back to me , and he had grown a beard , but his hair was still thick and blond .
9 One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell .
10 There was massive bruising , and he had lost a lot of blood in the night .
11 He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied .
12 And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park .
13 Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody …
14 The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech .
15 I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society .
16 " Right then , " he said , when operations were satisfactorily completed and he had taken a swill of ale , " let's not back and fill , let's have everything full and by . "
17 She had snipped , and he had taken a lock .
18 In a moment the paper was back in its folder , and he had taken a step away from her .
19 It appears that the fighters missed Fuchida 's flare and he had to fire a second , this was unfortunate as the firing of two flares meant that they had not surprised the Americans , which of course they had .
20 He attempted to subcontract in Switzerland but the manufacturers were not interested and he had to start a company in the UK for the purpose .
21 And he had found a tumbler and another bottle of Famous Grouse from which he 'd taken , at most , two tots .
22 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 .
23 He had known where the coal was kept , and the Calor gas poker , and he had had a key — which , now that I thought about it , I should certainly have asked him to hand over to me …
24 he had come back from the meeting with Patrick , and he had opened a bottle of whisky … automatically his had reached for it , found it between his legs , and he was raising it to his lips when the hurried knocking shook the door again .
25 His ship had been in Japan just after the surrender and he had enjoyed a couple of visits to the bath houses in Yokohama A part of the treatment there had included an exhilarating massage carried out by a young girl who , by standing on his inert naked body , and by using her body weight as a substitute for arm muscle , had given him an unforgettable massage with her bare feet .
26 and he had to find a girl who 'd let him do it to her .
27 Niels Bohr pointed it out to him and he had to add a note in proof to deal with the question .
28 He'd' 've had really , well this is the he goes back on Monday and he 've had a month off been off for a month .
29 The icebox was packed with beer and he 'd prepared a lobster salad that he 'd left on ice .
30 And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun !
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