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

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1 ‘ And I think that if he has a few problems at Liverpool at first , he 'll hang on and try and make things work .
2 He has a few swigs and then .
3 He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had .
4 For he has a few ideas of his own .
5 He has a few suggestions for those tempted to try aerial photography .
6 He had a few hours anyway .
7 The police would have to be told about Zoe 's murder tomorrow , but tonight he had a few hours of peace .
8 However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them .
9 Midway through 1906–07 Archie was deployed at right-back in the Palace line-ups , although he had a few outings on the right wing , and he played throughout our fabulous progress to the FA Cup quarter-finals .
10 ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’
11 He had a few contacts in the Metropolitan force .
12 What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself .
13 He had a few enemies amongst the more militant dockers but he had many loyal friends too , and many had told Carrie that they would follow him without question .
14 He had a few minutes yet , to compose his missive to Estabrook .
15 Every year , he had a few sessions with a visiting American analyst and there were occasional visits to a local one .
16 He had a few weeks to bask in the glow of this last electoral achievement , weeks that were only a little marred by the unpleasantness of Cabinet changes and the difficulties of moving towards a decision on the application of the oil sanction against Italy .
17 He had a few drinks and fell asleep and when he woke up he was in bed and Beryl was lying beside him .
18 He said he had a few days ’ work for me , five hundred and expenses .
19 He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut .
20 Afterwards he had a few words with Hob 's wife , the children cowering around her .
21 He had a few convictions for petty crimes when he was out of work but had got away with fines in the past .
22 He had a few animals , got a small catch-crop of grain , but probably lived mostly off government pensions , grants and subsidies to agriculture .
23 ‘ I think , ’ Adam said with a grin , ‘ you and he have a few problems to sort out . ’
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