Example sentences of "he had [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had difficulty handling the material , ’ recalled Dobereiner' . |
| 2 | Mr. Townsend reported that he had difficulty getting any sense out of the staff at Ostend , and in the end he completed an adjustment voucher given to him by the purser on the ship . |
| 3 | He claimed that he was struck on the left leg and was knocked off-balance and said that afterwards he had difficulty moving . |
| 4 | The thing between himself and Isobel had been so long ago he had difficulty remembering it , and it had been a mistake from the first . |
| 5 | He had difficulty controlling his voice , and his face and neck reddened with anger . |
| 6 | Confronted with evidence that the performer in question was neither Japanese nor female , and in any event was dressed in pantaloons , Parkinson confessed that he had difficulty observing the performance , and that his object in making the allegation was to revoke the Aquarium 's dancing licence . |
| 7 | He had difficulty keeping his eyes open . |
| 8 | He had difficulty keeping track of all his legs . |
| 9 | He had difficulty putting on his coat . |
| 10 | Without a mechanical aid , he had difficulty making himself heard . |
| 11 | There 's a story also of how I supposedly made him do take after take of a scene in which he slides down a rope until he was rope-burned so badly he had blood pouring from his hands . |
| 12 | He had trouble feeding his 40,000-strong army as they reached the north , largely because of Wallace 's scorched earth policy , and was considering a temporary period of recuperation in Edinburgh when two treacherous Scottish lords betrayed Wallace 's whereabouts . |
| 13 | His fingers were numb and he had trouble fastening the buttons . |
| 14 | He had trouble finding them and managed to catch his finger in a filing cabinet . |
| 15 | He had trouble finding an appropriate language for the painter 's obsession with the illuminated material world . |
| 16 | He had trouble fixing his belt-buckle but his eyes did not leave mine . |
| 17 | These days he had trouble recalling the troublesome fragments of his education he had bothered to memorize in the first place ; the names of a few acquaintances were jumbled together with old verb forms and things he thought were childhood haunts turned out to be places he had only just discovered . |
| 18 | They were hard words and he had trouble saying them . |