Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] have [art] " 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 | But then he 'd , apparently he seemed to have an older brother with him |
| 3 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
| 4 | Perhaps he had had the same thought , because as their eyes met something seemed to pass between them , some spark of longing they both recognised . |
| 5 | Perhaps he 'd had no real intention of stuffing her up her back passage . |
| 6 | So he did have a problem then ? |
| 7 | Somehow he had had the sound relayed to a speaker , or speakers , in the hills — perhaps that was what was in the little room , relaying equipment , a generator . |
| 8 | Already he seemed to have the reassuring kind of manner one associated with being a doctor . |
| 9 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
| 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 | Two years earlier he 'd had a privatised council house in East Ham , a nice little business and his family . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this . |
| 15 | But I I thought then he 'd had a slight stroke so to make him |
| 16 | And then he 'd had the thrill of actually seeing ( ‘ a life-time 's ambition ’ ) the Flying Scotsman ! |
| 17 | It 's a cliché to say that the judge had a difficult task but indeed he did have an unenviable job . |
| 18 | I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason . |
| 19 | Maybe he did have a bit of something — cunning , animal cunning . |
| 20 | It was crazy , she scarcely knew this man , yet he seemed to have the power to throw all her normally perfectly well-adjusted emotions into turmoil . |
| 21 | Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances . |
| 22 | Previously he had had no worry about her possible infidelity or that she might leave him for a more effective performer . |