Example sentences of "and he had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had this trick and he had a blow torch and he burned off all this blokes hair . |
| 2 | ‘ He went out to the … er … pub , and he had a heart attack and he died ! ’ |
| 3 | Meanwhile the owner the person who lived a small terraced property , whose garden backs onto the fields tried to get the hounds several dozen hounds off these two dogs who were being savaged to death and he had a heart attack in the process , Chairman and was hospitalized for several weeks That Chairman is the effect of the hunt on one of my constituents whose job it is for me to defend the rights that I was elected here to defend the rights of my constituents , not to be harassed in this manner . |
| 4 | was to get the second hand timber and , and he had a couple of lads off the dole in Mold there , knocking the nails well all he had to do |
| 5 | Francis was too fat , his face was podgy and he had a paunch . |
| 6 | He was probably Blagg 's own age — twenty-five — and he had a gold signet ring on a hand that was already worn and scarred by work at some machinery . |
| 7 | nineteen thirty nine , he worked at Colliery and he had a motorcycle . |
| 8 | He was free , he was well fed and looked after , and he had a girl who came to see him every day . |
| 9 | And he had a friend in this Celtic lust for life : Stanley Baker , his understudy , another son of a miner , much poorer than Richard 's family , and again someone plucked from that army of industrialised subjects by a schoolteacher . |
| 10 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 11 | The axillary temperature was 37.3°C and he had a tachycardia of 110 beats/min . |
| 12 | And he had a sense of gloom about the findings of the inquest . |
| 13 | I got one , one day and he had a sackful — four stone of it . |
| 14 | Oh aye , and the funny thing , he was away down in England one day , and he went into this shop , and here , there was this bundle of magazines , and he had a look and here it was the Gallovadians . |
| 15 | But anyway he saw this one stall and he had a look and they had three racks of them for ten ninety nine and then we found some others then , they were they were ten ninety nine but they were as thick as these other ones . |
| 16 | And he had a bit of business to attend to : within three weeks he was in Shoreditch — getting married , as we have seen . |
| 17 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 18 | And he had a drink and he had a pint had a white wine , I do n't bother |
| 19 | He was determined to become President in his own right , and he had a year in which to establish his fitness for the office . |
| 20 | His father was John Shakespeare , and he had a sister , Joan , and two younger brothers , Gilbert and Richard . |
| 21 | Yeah it was something like that and he had a sister called Lisa who was about a year older than me and I used to be best friends with her . |
| 22 | And he had a modulator ? |
| 23 | In any case , there were other lands and he had a facility for languages . |
| 24 | Bernard was on a round the world trip and he had a system worked out for the South American leg that seemed to be based on the storming of Himalayan peaks . |
| 25 | Er there was one chappie that er erm I can remember of him and he had a suitcase and well he had a shaving soap I suppose cos people used soap then with your shaving brush and and that and proper shaving brush and razor blades probably that quite . |
| 26 | Murchison the Slinnart bobby was all for killing it and he had a stone raised to despatch it when I said no . |
| 27 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |
| 28 | She 's married to Graham , her husband , and he trains race horses and he had a winner last weekend . |
| 29 | mega bucks and the company had gone escalated and then opportunity of this guy , you know , saying what a super guy he was , what an entrepreneur and what he done is , you know , I 've had something head , you know , I 'm in charge and he put his feet on the desk there and he had a hole in his shoe and s spread across all the papers the next day was this guy with a hole in his shoe and this was a multi million pound corporate er corporate body , he could n't afford to buy a decent pair of shoes |
| 30 | There was more decoration on his cap than on the average gypsy caravan , and he had a pair of samurai swords strung criss-cross on his back . |