Example sentences of "[conj] he had have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had had a distinguished military record as a young man , he was sixty-two and had been engaged in predominantly civil duties for the previous twenty years . |
| 2 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed . |
| 3 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |
| 4 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 5 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow . |
| 12 | Minton replied that he had had a girl the night before . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Seddon was n't , saying that he had had a late tea . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | For someone she had met only once he had had a remarkable impact on her . |
| 17 | Even a king must die , or be overthrown , and he had had a long reign . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Cameron could sense James Menzies fidgeting and breathing beside him and he wondered if he had had a dram . |
| 21 | She looked up at his face , unattractively blotched by the morning chill , at the grubby stubble , at the two brittle hairs at the corners of his mouth , at the trace of blackened blood in the left nostril , as if he had had a nose bleed , at the eyes , still gummy with sleep . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When he got back , Pat asked him if he had had a good holiday . |
| 25 | The subject of modern poetry coming up , which it might have been expected to do , D'Arcy put forward the view that the best of the younger poets was Louis MacNeice , because he had had a classical education . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | After he had had a sandwich m the Market Burger House , he loaded the van with small stuff to be returned and went out delivering . |
| 30 | 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 . |