Example sentences of "[conj] he have have [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet .
2 He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ?
3 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 .
4 Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed .
5 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 .
6 Although he had had no such thoughts in mind , he realized that Cindy might well be in a position to do Emma some good , just as Emma was undoubtedly doing Cindy some .
7 Although he has had a good response from his three other beers , production is still only two barrels a week .
8 Victor had bragged , absurdly , that he 'd had a five a.m. rendezvous with her at a private house in Cadogan Square , just before her flight to Poland , and that ‘ the earth had moved ’ .
9 Always with resignation and with grief but buffered by the knowledge that he would no longer be in pain and confusion , by the fact that he 'd had a long and lively life — that he would be at peace at last .
10 I laughed when he told the linesman that he 'd had a ‘ mare .
11 He was taken to the city 's main hospital where it was confirmed that he 'd had a heart attack .
12 He was surprised that he 'd had no word from that gentleman , and even more so to find that Theda had not either .
13 He was so sure that Barney was his man , even though the evidence against him was n't strong enough to arrest him , that he 'd had the cheek to warn him off .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow .
22 Minton replied that he had had a girl the night before .
23 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 .
24 Seddon was n't , saying that he had had a late tea .
25 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 . ’
26 The husband of the cleaning woman had been a soldier , and she had said that he had had no choice but to obey his orders to shoot Jews .
27 His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant .
28 George felt anxious that he had had no opportunity to be alone with Tamar , and so there had been no chance of warning her about the groom .
29 It was obvious from Willie 's astounded expression that he had had no idea at all .
30 It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year .
  Next page