Example sentences of "he had [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enraged by his presumption , she longed to land him a good smack on the face , famous actor or no famous actor , but he had her arms pinned to her sides , and his strength was far greater than hers . |
| 2 | It happened that she was propped on her elbow and could see that he had his fingers crossed . |
| 3 | He had his shirtsleeves rolled up and his arms folded like piled-up hocks of ham . |
| 4 | In 1891 the point was severely reiterated by Dr Maclagan , the Archbishop of York , who was a strong objector to moustaches despite having been a major in the Madras cavalry and who walked ‘ as though he had his loins girded by a sword belt ’ . |
| 5 | There was a silence ; then a growing murmur , that grew rapidly to a hubbub of comment and argument around Eachuinn Odhar , while he had his horn refilled to ease his throat and sat back , ears alert for the tone of the reaction . |
| 6 | No wonder he had his work cut out on the bench . |
| 7 | He had his head cut off , he was guillotined . |
| 8 | He had his head jammed or something |
| 9 | Even while Dick was lowering Martin to the ground , he had his head turned in the direction of the dark blur standing out against the night and it was only a matter of seconds before he raised himself and his gun towards it . |
| 10 | Edward , Helen could see from his stance , was bored : he had his head tilted on one side and was watching a bird in a tree behind Peter Sidey 's left ear . |
| 11 | A kind of passive voice as in these sentences : He had his hair cut ; They got their work done ; This room needs/wants decorating . |
| 12 | earlier on a Friday yeah , well mind you he was early last week cos he had his hair cut , ha |
| 13 | He had his leg whooped off did you know about that ? |
| 14 | He had his leg whooped off |
| 15 | He had his back turned to me . |
| 16 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 17 | Swindon swept back within seconds for Maskell to score , but a minute later he had his spot-kick turned around the post by Steve Sutton . |
| 18 | He had his hands thrust into his coat pockets and his shoulders were hunched . |
| 19 | He had his hands clasped behind his head and was leaning against the head-rest behind him so that his tanned throat was exposed . |
| 20 | ‘ He had his radio turned up . |
| 21 | He had his house painted by the FBI Exhibits Section , listed his black servants as FBI agents , profited from books he had FBI employees write under his name . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean like Heloise cared for Abelard when he had his balls cut off ? |
| 23 | He had his legs crossed , and he was smoking an old pipe , from which came a vile smell and great plumes of smoke as he puffed at it . |
| 24 | Mm you saw where he had his thing done . |
| 25 | Many were the times when he had his knuckles rapped sharply for meddling in politics or foreign policy . |
| 26 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 27 | The Ulster Unionist security spokesman maintained a stiff upper lip as he had his moustache shaved off — for charity . |
| 28 | Philip saw he had his eyes shut . |
| 29 | He had his eyes shut . |
| 30 | Once Tam darted a terrified glance over his shoulder and saw Kim sprawled across the writing-table ; white faced and trembling from head to toe , he had his eyes closed and his fists were clenched tight as he summoned up every last ounce of courage in his eleven-year-old body to endure his father 's beating without weeping or crying out . |