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

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1 Poor Ryan , he had had a heart of gold .
2 He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him .
3 He had had a fight with the insurance inspector and ended up in court charged with Assault .
4 After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times .
5 Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him .
6 He had had a gentleman 's upbringing .
7 Minton replied that he had had a girl the night before .
8 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 .
9 Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances .
10 After he had had a spell at Southern League Bedford Town , Palace awarded Roy a Benefit match on 15 March 1961 in token of his services to our club .
11 He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods .
12 The husband had an extra-marital relationship with another woman by whom he had had a child in September 1985 .
13 If truth were known , he had had a wife , as well as a perdurable old mother , a great bicyclist and supporter of local Labour causes , but both of them had died of cancer , no replacements possible there .
14 The words had leapt out of Tom 's mouth before he had had a chance to stop them .
15 He wondered what was wrong , wishing he had had a chance to talk to Ruth — though from the expression on her face as she hovered behind Cashman she did n't know either .
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 He had had a number of mistresses and felt affection for some of them .
18 The trouble was that Arnold said he had had a letter from a Mr Anderson who wanted to caddie for him as well .
19 The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school .
20 He had had a lot of practice in persuading bullies not to thump him , and now he recognized in Simon , only too well , all the signs of a violent , bullying , and unpredictable nature .
21 He had had a lot of trouble with builders last year .
22 He had had a point , had Alfonso .
23 He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed .
24 He had had a thunderclap headache which is a well recognised benign symptom after sexual intercourse requiring analgesic and observation .
25 By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave .
26 After he had had a sandwich m the Market Burger House , he loaded the van with small stuff to be returned and went out delivering .
27 Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume .
28 He had had a succession of good hands and won the kitty twice .
29 At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry .
30 He had had a series of injuries , he did not have reasonable employment , and a plainly lucrative offer from Japan had appeal .
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