Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] have a " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |
2 | Apparently he 's had a m a couple of mellies on Frank . |
3 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
4 | So he did have a problem then ? |
5 | I have known him to come home he 's had a weekend off with a kitbag full of fish , beautiful fish he used to bring home cos no sooner on the train and right home |
6 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
7 | Now he 's had a reply from the Prime minister 's office . |
8 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
9 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
10 | well although he told me he 'd er , he 'd , well he 'd had a reasonable catch he 'd er , remember them , bring one up |
11 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
12 | Well he 's had a here ai n't he , tonight ? |
13 | Two years earlier he 'd had a privatised council house in East Ham , a nice little business and his family . |
14 | As the build-up to the pending general election got under way , the position of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , Paddy Ashdown , came under scrutiny when on Feb. 5 he made a statement acknowledging that some years earlier he had had a " brief relationship " with a woman ( identified as Patricia Sullivan , now known under the name Howard ) ; he stressed , however , that this " should have remained a private and personal matter of concern only to those involved " . |
15 | Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this . |
16 | But I I thought then he 'd had a slight stroke so to make him |
17 | At least he 's had a bit of time in there . |
18 | Maybe he did have a bit of something — cunning , animal cunning . |
19 | Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances . |