Example sentences of "he [vb -s] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to have a fire even in summer ! |
| 2 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
| 3 | Since he became Prime Minister he has had a chance — his predecessor had a chance , too — to increase women 's representation on such boards , but between 1985 and 1990 we know that their representation rose by a dismal 0.3 per cent . |
| 4 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 5 | His final point about trust is fair enough , it sounds like he has had a gutful of Leeds fans berating him for sticking to his guns . |
| 6 | Rusty Conway becomes one of Serena 's patients because he has had a spell of extreme absent-mindedness which made him incapable of carrying out his work . |
| 7 | He is over 55 , married , without education or job training ; furthermore , he has had a spell of registered unemployment , did not work full-time in the 12 months prior to becoming unemployed and lives in a council house . |
| 8 | He has had a spell in politics as Fianna Fail councillor in the 1970s , and broadened his horizons working in Canada in the 1960s after qualifying from Dublin College of Catering . |
| 9 | At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio . |
| 10 | Time after time he has had a tournament in his pocket only for a miracle shot from a rival to steal it away . |
| 11 | He has had a hand in most of the major developments on site , but says B205 — Magnox reprocessing — has brought him most satisfaction . |
| 12 | Like you say , I do n't think he can be too good at , if he tried , he has had a lot of injuries apparently . |
| 13 | He has had a knee injury Record man SWIMMING : Australian Keiren Perkins broke his own world 800 metres freestyle record by 1.25 secs at the New South Wales swimming championships , finishing in 7 mins 46.6 secs . |
| 14 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 15 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 16 | Yeah , he has had a bonio , he likes a bonio , he did eat one last night , |
| 17 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |
| 18 | Jasper 's sometimes funny when he has had a disappointment . " |
| 19 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 20 | Lazio 's manager , Dino Zoff , says that Gascoigne is all he needs to have a team capable of challenging for the title . |
| 21 | ‘ Travis is here — he wants to have a word . ’ |
| 22 | It started as A Day Well Spent , a British play by John Oxenford , performed in London in 1835 , before being adapted by a Viennese playwright , Johann Nestroy , into Einen Jux Will er Sich Machien ( ‘ He Wants To Have a Lark ’ ) , staged in Austria in 1842 . |
| 23 | The shop he calls has a copy , agrees to keep it over , and the secret comes out when he is asked to give his name — J R Hartley . |
| 24 | Some mornings he 's suffering from what quite obviously is a hangover and at other times he appears to have a stomach upset . |
| 25 | He seems to have a migraine |
| 26 | ‘ But he seems to have a lot of good ideas aimed at taking Forest back to the Premier League and I 'm happy to be part of that . ’ |
| 27 | He hopes to have a farm of his own as soon as possible . |
| 28 | He does have a spirit . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr ’ Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on , he does have a leg to stand on . |
| 30 | He does have a wife who does not have the best of health and that seems to have been the spark . ’ |