Example sentences of "he [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He henceforth had a bicycle . |
| 2 | The local council says he only has a licence for the fruit , and he needs another one to sell greens . |
| 3 | In a year or two he should have a decent sized flock — of course he 's not normally down here this early , he only has a bit of a stable down here that he rents for the summer along with his few acres of grass and his bit of land for cultivation . |
| 4 | Will he particularly look at what the French are doing in terms of tax concessions to encourage the viability of such an environmentally friendly fuel , and will he perhaps have a word with our right hon. Friend the Chancellor on that subject ? |
| 5 | He suddenly had a vision of Lee tearing up his note-book and wearing his helmet . |
| 6 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 7 | He stood aside for McLeish , then took himself off , observing unnecessarily that he just had a wee bit paperwork to finish up . |
| 8 | Could n't he just have a tractor ? ’ |
| 9 | So why could n't he just have a photograph of his sales team portraying the kind of team spirit that runs throughout the branch ? |
| 10 | Except he does n't hear those words precisely , he just has a feeling — the emotional impact of an unsteady self-image ; unsettled at a formative stage by ridicule and embarrassment . |
| 11 | When he finally had a nightmare about the loss of her , at least it supplied him with a landscape to imagine her in again ; there was some spasm of life in that , he supposed . |
| 12 | As he needed a fairly high percentage of oxygen he soon had a head box too — a clear perspex box placed over his head to concentrate the oxygen . |
| 13 | Ralemberg said he already had a buyer for the wine , a vintner living in Trinity . |
| 14 | He already had a contact in a Swedish woman who had expressed a desire to work with the British , who was studying at Dresden . |
| 15 | However , the organisers decided not to award him the individual trophy since he already had a team trophy and instead awarded the individual trophy to the person with the lowest score . |
| 16 | ‘ He already had a background in TV when he started in Butterflies , while for me it was my first acting job . |
| 17 | He jumps back , but he already has a mouthful of food . |
| 18 | Ellcock plans to spend two years pursuing his interest in flying ( he already has a pilot 's licence ) and furthering his education . |
| 19 | Females tend to disperse themselves among the males but in cases where a male has an especially good territory a female may opt to breed with him even if he already has a mate , rather than go for one without . |
| 20 | He already has a conception of Scarpia , a cunning brute who veers from calculated anger to cool appraisal of Tosca 's bottom while her lover is being tortured . |
| 21 | He already has a record as long as my arm and he 's only eighteen . |
| 22 | There were some valid defences , particularly the poor state of most of the pitches and the injuries to Gatting ( having returned from getting his nose repaired he promptly had a thumb broken and played in only the final Test ) , but some of the criticisms were very valid , too . |
| 23 | The affliction was a subject for after-dinner conversation whenever he felt like talking about it , which was almost every time he ever had a conversation . |
| 24 | It seemed to me that it was not only natural but positive : it demonstrated that he still had a relationship with God . |
| 25 | He still had a flicker of morality in him . |
| 26 | Cautious and practical , he took one look at the situation and advised Vincent to get out at once , while he still had a shirt on his back . |
| 27 | He still had a chance to catch her . |
| 28 | The ball 's he let the ball drop behind him but er he still had a chance to get back on this . |
| 29 | While he still had a chance of being near Maisie , he would take it . |
| 30 | Harvey said he still had a temperature and must have something to eat before he went to bed . |