Example sentences of "[adj] he have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 2 | There 's a vet like this he 's got a fucking bone in his mouth and the dogs his fucking leg . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , in 1801 he had exhibited a portrait at the Royal Academy , and in the same year had established himself at 59 New Bond Street , at the corner of Brook Street , and published Rudiments of Landscape , a volume of uncoloured etchings after William 's drawings . |
| 4 | ‘ But he 's so brave he has made a wonderful comeback . |
| 5 | He 's still trying to find some he 's phoned a bloke in Plymouth see if he can get them . |
| 6 | Either for that reason or another he 's got a monumental chip on his shoulder . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid he 's had a disappointment . ’ |
| 8 | Before 1222 he had acquired a prebend in Salisbury under Langton 's pupil , Bishop Richard Poer ( q.v. under ‘ Poor ’ ) . |
| 9 | It was a hard walk to the mountain top , and she was relieved he had selected a pastime which did not require her participation . |
| 10 | Unaware he had obtained a new exit visa , Pyle waited till the following morning , then asked his bank staff in the Dharram office to check around the city and find out what Laing was doing there . |
| 11 | Pitt was almost the only British politician ever to think that acquiring colonial possessions was the main purpose of European war ; by 1759 he had reached a position where he could carry out his objective almost at will . |
| 12 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 13 | In surviving the conspicuous favour of Edward II in order to go on to win that of Edward III he had followed a course unusual enough to suggest both his high abilities and his political dexterity . |
| 14 | In 1849 he had bought a wire-rope business which laid the first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866 . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | By 1612 he had acquired a territorial estate valued at £6,000 per annum ; he had built a sumptuous palace at Hatfield and two town houses in the Strand — Great Salisbury House and Little Salisbury House ; he had put up an elaborate commercial structure , the New Exchange ; and he had bought potentially valuable building-plots in St Martin 's Lane . |
| 17 | It was his great-grandson — the first Henry Overton Wills — who moved to Bristol where by 1786 he had become a partner in a tobacco business . |
| 18 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
| 19 | In 1170 he had made a bid to capture Bourges itself but withdrew when Louis VII came up with an army . |
| 20 | Num number number three he 's got a party . |
| 21 | However , on Oct. 21 he had submitted a number of amendments to the document , provoking demonstrations in Kathmandu and other towns on Oct. 24 and throughout the succeeding week . |
| 22 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 23 | Derain , although as early as 1904 he had executed a still life in which he seized in a more or less superficial way on some of the aspects of Cézanne 's art which were later to fascinate and influence the Cubists , did not begin to look at Cézanne really seriously until 1906 . |
| 24 | That 's okay he 's got a nice |
| 25 | I was sure he had had a gloating look in his eyes when he found out I had been robbed . |
| 26 | I 'm sure he 'd got a few more bits of paper on his desk than what shall we do about P E Ps ? |
| 27 | In no time at all he had made a good-sized hole in the riverbank . |
| 28 | Above all he had conceived a mission to " clean up Cardiff " by " fighting The System " by which the " slimily cunning oddments of humanity " , the boarding house keepers , the cafe owners , the Red Lamp proprietors , even the laundrymen , battened on the sailors and their families The Achilles Heel of " The System " was , he concluded , the Chinese element in the port , especially when Chinese seamen were brought in from outside and used as blacklegs by the employers . |
| 29 | This went on for about ten evenings and at the end of it all he had lost a stone in weight and had attracted the waterfowl from the entire county ! |
| 30 | In 1908 he had made a drawing of a table-turning . |