Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Milken 's indictment was the prize that Boesky delivered to his prosecutors — it was even cited by his lawyer when he tried unsuccessfully to have Boesky 's three-year prison sentence commuted earlier this year .
2 And he has n't had building inspections at the right sorts of times .
3 He has also had problems with soft ground , so the first phase , the removal of a small number of trees , will probably be delayed another week or two .
4 He has also had correspondence with my hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire , West ( Mr. McLoughlin ) , the Minister for Shipping and Public Transport at the Department .
5 He has also had skin grafts and his mother , Pat , is convinced her son needs counselling .
6 But Mr Gray is adamant that he has not had letters delivered to him since December 1990 .
7 He certainly engages in speculation as to what might have happened but treats it as such , continually emphasising that multiple interpretations of the data are possible , that there are many important matters to which he has not had access and that only limited and tentative conclusions may be drawn .
8 The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ?
9 As the PM says , no one has ever done anything big and good if he has always had success and has n't had some thumping clouts on the head on the way .
10 Nicholas said , ‘ He has always had hopes .
11 He surfaced , briefly , but the swell rolled him over and drove him down again before he 'd even had time to draw breath .
12 ‘ Barratt was there , ’ says Howard , ‘ making sure everyone knew he 'd just had lunch with God . ’
13 He 'd never had affection so he could n't give it .
14 ‘ Mellor was besotted with me because he 'd never had sex like it ’
15 Of course , he 'd never had time to make friends .
16 He began to feel uneasy , not the least because , by talking to Edna , he seemed somehow to have double-crossed his wife .
17 I turn up for staff meals but I do n't really eat at them because young Pooley is so guilty about what he 's condemned me to that he keeps on having parcels of goodies delivered .
18 He needed still to have Mummy come along and say , ‘ No !
19 Afterwards , he went home to have dinner and a wash and shave before returning to Central Strike Headquarters at 7.00 p.m .
20 In Jones & Smith [ 1976 ] 3 All ER 54 ( CA ) , the occupier 's son had general permission to enter the house but he did not have permission to come in with a friend to steal two televisions , despite the father 's saying that his son would never be a trespasser in his house .
21 It was obvious he did not have pockets full of drugs .
22 He did not have indigestion although he ate ready salted crisps with his whisky .
23 This meant some easing of the burden , which he liked , but it also meant that he was not Prime Minister , which he also liked being , that he did not have Chequers , for which his affection was second only to that of MacDonald , and that his salary as Lord President was £2000 instead of the £5000 which Secretaries of State as well as the Prime Minister were paid .
24 He did not have mother 's shrewdness , nor her education , and lacked the family support given to mother by her parents .
25 Mr Chambers said Mr Smith claimed he did not have £407 and , when he said he would take his Astra instead , Mr Smith said it had been sold .
26 But rather that in the incarnation God in Christ took on humanity ( the universal ) ; which is not to imply that he did not have particularities , which indeed one has to have to be human .
27 He did not have AIDS .
28 He did not have Alain 's humour or compassion .
29 He did not have time to dwell on the finer points of policy detail , and despite Kirk 's Ron-concurrence " he would have to send his telegram .
30 Over her shoulder , lying on the black leather upholstery of the back seat , he could see a black velour trilby which was vaguely familiar , though for the moment he did not have time to sort out exactly why or how .
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