Example sentences of "had his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had his regular three or four gentlemen among whom were J.F. Cooper , Sir Gerald Burt and Stanley de Ville . |
| 2 | And he had his regular job which his son was keeping warm for him . |
| 3 | Upper Gumtree 's trainer had n't made the journey from Australia , and nor had his usual jockey : Canadian substitutes had been found . |
| 4 | ‘ Everything had been geared towards winning today and only now and over the next two weeks will we be concentrating on the Twickenham game , ’ acknowledged Armstrong who had his usual superb display . |
| 5 | Roger William Peters FCA of 433-437 Great West Road , Hounslow , Middx having been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(d) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iii ) in that at Slough on or about 23 April 1991 an Interim Order was made in respect of his affairs under Section 252 of the Insolvency Act 1986 was reprimanded , had his Practising Certificate withdrawn and ordered to pay £1,000 by way of costs . |
| 6 | The mirror told him he still had his youthful figure , and the grey was all covered now . |
| 7 | Back at the clubhouse , it was just another day 's work for the club professional , the irrepressible Dai Stevenson , who has been dispensing tees and sympathy to the Portrush members for 16 years , as had his late father , the legendary P G Stevenson , from 1922 to 1977 . |
| 8 | We rarely even had his private address . |
| 9 | It became in essence the very house that , had his private life been otherwise , he would have liked to live in himself . |
| 10 | At the end of the day , they would all be taken down to Romaldkirk and put on a train , although on one occasion Sir Emmanuel had his private aeroplane sent up to transport them . |
| 11 | Chernov placed less emphasis on the peculiar virtues of the peasant commune than had his populist predecessors , and sought to integrate the development of urban capitalism and Marx 's insights into his neo-populist programme . |
| 12 | The train had living accommodation for thirty-eight sick berth staff , all in the charge of a medical officer , who had his living quarters in the staff coach , while 140 sick and wounded were accommodated in six cot coaches . |
| 13 | He 'd sent a photograph in and he was sitting in the garden and right and he was on a garden chair and he had his nice hair washed and shiny . |
| 14 | My predecessor , Patrick Jenkin , had been pressed for savings and so too had his Labour predecessors , David Ennals and Barbara Castle . |
| 15 | I was nonplussed , I stared at my teacher , never before had his swollen face seemed so replete with indifference , stone ataraxy . |
| 16 | Fred Grummidge — the lovable old groundsman who grew dahlias along the touchline , and upon his death had his still red-hot ashes scattered across ‘ The Tip ’ and in so doing burnt down the dressing room . |
| 17 | He had his one paw up on her knee . |
| 18 | Lewis had his two slender volumes of verse , and Tolkien his learned edition of Sir Gawain and the Green knight and his article on Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meith-had ( which combines deep linguistic learning with a justly famous account of the world of this West Midland prose writer which we can recognize as a foretaste of the Hobbit 's native Shire ) . |
| 19 | Well , Roberto had his two putts , and the crowd was — slapping my back until it was black-and-blue . |
| 20 | Barnard had his two hundred per cent . |
| 21 | He had his two elder sons with him , he had quite a lot of time for enjoyment , certainly to start with , he went hunting round Woodstock quite often , and they played tennis , The erm Racquet Sport , and I think they played tennis in The Racquet Sport , I 'm not absolutely certain , was actually just erm facing onto Blue Boar Street , erm behind the Unicorn Inn . |
| 22 | He had his black chest out too . |
| 23 | But Ted had his real family around him now . |
| 24 | He had his time-proven tests for this : one was simply to walk over the land and to ‘ feel it through his boots ’ , ; then again he would take up a handful of soil , carefully crumbling it to test it ; or he would bend down and draw his fist backwards through the soil . |
| 25 | He looked up at Sir John , who had his fiery red nose deep in a wine cup again . |
| 26 | Was it because of Emmanuel Steele , who had his shoemaking shop between the Misses Cardings and the bakery and who was well into his forties , but apparently had no use for women , inasmuch as he did his own housework in the rooms above the shop , and ate most of his meals out . |
| 27 | Well it was on the settee and cos he had his blue hat on . |
| 28 | He had his bloody he had his cushion and he had his bloody , you know that one how we got him with his head on his cushion like that ? |
| 29 | He had his bloody he had his cushion and he had his bloody , you know that one how we got him with his head on his cushion like that ? |
| 30 | She had to admit he had his good points . |