Example sentences of "[vb past] he [vb mod] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out he was escaping a planned course of ECT because no one on his ward believed he might have a drink problem . |
| 2 | He was not wearing wellingtons , just his working boots , but he decided he must have a look . |
| 3 | She felt he must have a grudge of some kind against her and she felt very frightened . |
| 4 | In his office the manager said that he thought he might have a part going , and then looked at Arthur for a long time . |
| 5 | Parisian designer Jacques Rougerie obviously got rather tired of his new project — designing a Seine riverbus — and thought he 'd have a lie-down instead . |
| 6 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 7 | I thought that would be that , but they said he could have a vote , and he loves to go . |
| 8 | I said he should have a bit of a lie-in ; he had another bad night again . |
| 9 | Bob said he 'd have a chairman , yes , to er , pull the whole thing together . |
| 10 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 11 | Rozanov said he must have a pee . |
| 12 | ‘ The standard of his work deteriorated and that was when we first suspected he might have a problem . |