Example sentences of "he had have a [noun] " in BNC.

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31 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 .
32 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 .
33 By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain .
34 On the romantic front he had had a string of engaging and pretty girlfriends , not least of all the vivacious flame-haired Lady Sarah Spencer .
35 Since giving up playing the piano in the Soho bar , he had had a job as a receptionist and switchboard operator in a hospice in Kilburn .
36 On the English side the king 's eldest son , the Black Prince , had grown to manhood anxious to win his share of the glory and profits of war , of which he had had a taste at Crécy .
37 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 .
38 Cameron could sense James Menzies fidgeting and breathing beside him and he wondered if he had had a dram .
39 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 .
40 He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses .
41 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 …
42 Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed .
43 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 .
44 Unfortunately for Cubitt he had to have a gallery but he made it far more acceptable by supporting it with pointed arches .
45 John Hill says he started racing with a ski boat and then when the engines got bigger he had to have a go at powerboating which he really enjoys …
46 In the spring , he had to have a heart by-pass operation , and that was a time of anxiety and distress .
47 He had to have a bypass operation .
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