Example sentences of "and he have [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 2 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 3 | She had seen her general practitioner a week after the separation and he had prescribed a tranquillizer . |
| 4 | Apparently this chap 's father had been criticised severely after the fall of the Gang of Four , and he had gone a bit berserk . |
| 5 | And he had done a lot of mischief in there . |
| 6 | It was the ultimate war , the final confrontation between Good and Evil , and he had played a major part in the war . |
| 7 | However , M. Frontenac was entitled to the final say and he had rejected a veritable Gotha of applicants before music in France became somewhat un-sympathetic to a romantic text . |
| 8 | He said they had gone up the Rest and Be Thankful and he had noticed a red van parked in a lay-by which had flashed its lights as they passed . |
| 9 | However , despite his undoubted experience , Crabb 's health was not good , and he had become a heavy smoker and drinker . |
| 10 | In the flicker of an eyelid the hostility had vanished and he had become a model of charm and smiling good humour , as he politely asked her all about herself and answered her questions in return . |
| 11 | From what Seb had seen of her body — and he had seen a great deal — he suspected it was not far from the truth . |
| 12 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 13 | She had put her key in the front door and he had engaged a gear to take the car round to the garage when his instinct reasserted itself . |
| 14 | She was one of the hardest toms he had ever met in his life , and he had met a few , but she had one vice : she was a dyke and liked the young girls . |
| 15 | They were two of the biggest lunatics he had ever met , and he had met a few in his time . |
| 16 | He had his back to me , and he had grown a beard , but his hair was still thick and blond . |
| 17 | Sure , his confidence was dented and he had lost a little of his self-assurance and cockiness ; but these returned soon after his home-coming . |
| 18 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 19 | There was massive bruising , and he had lost a lot of blood in the night . |
| 20 | He had not for one minute , he said , imagined this could happen and they had even planned to move to Mexico where he was in the process of renovating a house for them ; the bedrooms were complete and he had made a nursery for Michelle 's daughter , China , never to be occupied . |
| 21 | He had wanted a male grandchild and he had got a male grandchild ; that should be enough for everybody … [ 18 ] The good news therefore was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as dismay in Woburn Square , where the John Pontifexes were then living . |
| 22 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 23 | The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech . |
| 24 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 25 | His father seemed a more promising candidate for that role and he had died a natural death . |
| 26 | ‘ How about — ? ’ and he had quoted a ridiculously small sum . |
| 27 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 28 | " Right then , " he said , when operations were satisfactorily completed and he had taken a swill of ale , " let's not back and fill , let's have everything full and by . " |
| 29 | Rona and he had taken a few round one afternoon , drinking endless cups of tea and listening to platitudes ; a pattern of conversation with all the formality of a dance , first the weather , and then naive politics of the cost of living . |
| 30 | She had snipped , and he had taken a lock . |