Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gooch recalled playing against Waqar at Chelmsford : ‘ The first impression was that he seemed to have a very long run-up but he is obviously a very fine fast bowler with the ability to swing , particularly the old ball . ’ |
| 2 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I laughed when he told the linesman that he 'd had a ‘ mare . |
| 6 | He was taken to the city 's main hospital where it was confirmed that he 'd had a heart attack . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow . |
| 15 | Minton replied that he had had a girl the night before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Seddon was n't , saying that he had had a late tea . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | But if it could be said that he did have a weakness for something , it was for Ireland and the Irish . |
| 20 | And provided that he did have a ‘ residence ’ ( or ‘ abode ’ , the concept used in other contexts ) there , in which he spent a substantial part of the year , it would not be necessary for him to be physically present there for the whole three-month period prior to the qualifying date . |
| 21 | As Hollywood history has shown , Curtis recognized that he did have a drug problem when , in 1984 , he admitted himself into the Betty Ford Alcoholic and Drugs Treatment Center for treatment for his drug abuse and alcoholism . |
| 22 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't really know much about Doctor Reid , ’ I admitted , ‘ except that he seems to have a great sense of humour and is — well , perhaps a bit unconventional . ’ |
| 24 | ( If ) At any time within a year the said Wm Roe by writing in his own band signified that he intended to have a 21 year lease from the date hereof " paying one-fifteenth part of the 1st 7 years and one-twelfth for the remaining 14 years such lease will be executed . " |
| 25 | And , checking back , the Sounds review of the time ( in which journalist Rab claims that he 's had a tape since November 1980 ) provided the release with a five star rating , while NME was mildly less enthusiastic , observing that ‘ it 's an odd LP , naturally flawed and imperfect and rather stilted in places but nonetheless a worthy attempt at indisciplinary entertainment . ’ |
| 26 | So he 's waiting to go , so when I think that he 's had a an appointment , I might stand a chance of having one afterwards , I do n't know . |
| 27 | At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio . |
| 28 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 29 | But do the movements ‘ convey information ’ to fellow workers in the hive in any more semantic a fashion than , say , a bruise on a child 's face conveys to his mother the information that he has had a nasty bump ? |
| 30 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |