Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt like nursery food after the pummelling he 'd had during the meeting and that was the nearest thing to it on the menu . |
| 2 | They passed the fountain , which still lay in darkness , having beaten Stephen and the team of electricians he had had working until minutes before the guests ' arrival — the one and only thing that was not finished . |
| 3 | They 'd danced to Michael 's band and her glossy pink trousers flashed and moved in the dimmed lights , and he had felt elated and mildly drunk , and had lost most of the inhibitions he 'd had about dancing , until it became clear to his confused brain that the drummer , who had soft dark hair and was probably a potential Celtic supporter , was getting on so well with Amanda that perhaps they should move on elsewhere , and he swayed out of the room , pushing her in front of him , and bumped into someone at the door , and had realised it was the man in the raincoat , only he was in a dark suit and a tie with geometric designs . |
| 4 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 5 | In interview he denied having interfered with the computer . |
| 6 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 7 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 8 | Knew the effect he had had on her . |
| 9 | If he realised the effect he had had on her — was still having on her … |
| 10 | She would have to have some money to support it , and it was only right he should pay for the pleasure he 'd had . |
| 11 | He reported 88 per cent of schools he sampled had adopted a Total Communication approach and these , by and large , relied on the development of sign systems which more closely reflect English syntax . |
| 12 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 13 | He was vaguely surprised that what sense of loss he did have seemed to be connected in some way with Cyprus . |
| 14 | He remained at heart a scholar , rising at 5 a.m. each day to keep up with his reading of new books from abroad and often having Continental scholars staying with him , under whose influence he came to have an extreme Reformist attitude to the Mass . |
| 15 | Almost , but not quite , she had come between him and the work he had had to do in New York City . |
| 16 | It happened less than 72 hours after Sampras had paid warm tribute in Frankfurt to the veteran coach he said had helped him so much in a year which began disastrously without him but then led to outstanding success in the second half of the year , culminating in the ATP Tour Championships title . |
| 17 | At the beginning of May he had had nearly £300 in his bank account ; the balance was now down to double figures and falling fast . |
| 18 | After the war he also confessed to me that his eyesight was very bad and he would not have passed any normal eye test that we used in the RAF , hut he did have contact lenses . |
| 19 | But the Guider and all the Pack learned later on about her meeting with the stranger on the seat , because at the next Pack Meeting the Guider read out a letter from Mr. Bishop , the estate agent , which said the Earl of Ferngrove had given special instructions that the Brownie Guide Pack could continue to use the Park whenever they wished , as he was quite satisfied , thanks to a chat he 'd had with one of them , that they were very careful not to leave litter about in the Park . |
| 20 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 21 | And the boy he saved has n't turned out very well . |
| 22 | After the Southern Uplands of Scotland he had had to pass near to another industrial city and one quite as grim and dark as the others he had seen . |
| 23 | The Reporter , Gordon Sloan , inferred that the South Ronaldsay community were all involved in the abuse he believed to have taken place there . |
| 24 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 25 | According to Pilkington , ‘ One child he examined had such a lacerated tongue he compared it to sago pudding . ’ |
| 26 | Since being stuck in Cork he 'd had only two brief periods of leave with her . |
| 27 | He told a friend of a dream he had had , ‘ a terrible nightmare ’ — perhaps apocryphal too , but there are no Secret Service logs of dreams — in which America 's support of the contras had failed . |
| 28 | Edouard came into her body with a feeling of shuddering release and the afternoon seemed to pass in a dream he had had , or she had had long before . |
| 29 | Li Yuan shivered , remembering the day when he had found out the truth about his world ; recollecting suddenly the dream he had had — his vision of a vast mountain of bones , filling the plain from horizon to horizon . |
| 30 | As in the dream he had had . |