Example sentences of "[noun] he have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective . |
| 2 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 3 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
| 4 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 5 | From his new home in England he had kept a close eye and ear as one disaster followed another . |
| 6 | During the war he had adopted a neo-romantic style in his drawings of landscapes , apple trees , houses and labouring figures . |
| 7 | On one occassion he had made a huge crossbow , hoping to throw himself to the mainland , but the elastic snapped , sending him backwards into the school and he had spent two weeks finding his way out . |
| 8 | After addressing a public meeting in support of extending the franchise to agricultural workers he had caught a severe cold . |
| 9 | Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper . |
| 10 | The bishop 's hobbies include reading and walking and since his student days he has had a great interest in church and choral music . |
| 11 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 12 | Well look at this daddy he 's eaten a whole bowlful of it |
| 13 | In five years he had turned a struggling side into formidable Championship contenders capable of springing surprises on League giants in the Cup . |
| 14 | For years he had continued a running battle with producers and film companies whom he saw as the bad guys . |
| 15 | Over the years he had acquired real skill in his hobby , and had exhibited some of his studies of Scottish scenery and wildlife ; his real passion was bird photography , and through the years he had amassed a remarkable collection of pictures . |
| 16 | Over the years he has done a marvellous job enthusiastically promoting the theatre and bringing world-class productions to local audiences in spite of the difficulties posed by the Troubles . |
| 17 | Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband . |
| 18 | They do want stuff on local levels I mean if he 's East Herts he 's got a huge area , has n't he ? |
| 19 | If in Murder in the Cathedral he had chosen a particular martyrdom which functioned as a bloody , savage ritual , then in the plays which followed , connections with primitive ritual would be clearer — if anything , as Eliot later feared when thinking of The Family Reunion , too clear , the primitive outline getting in the way of the Christian story . |
| 20 | With his ITV show Through The Keyhole he has given a guided tour of 200 homes of the rich and famous , exposing to public view everything from Viscount Weymouth 's erotic murals to Bernard Manning 's fish tank . |
| 21 | In many ways he 's got a thankless task — he and his colleagues have to build partnerships between bodies and individuals who often hold totally opposite views on how Scotland 's countryside should be protected . |
| 22 | every week he 's got a different sort of format . |
| 23 | He walked her out the doors and down the steps , and kissed her on the cheek as if she were an old maiden aunt he had developed a polite affection for . |
| 24 | [ I ] n the slums of the manufacturing towns and in the hovels of the countryside he has become a legendary being-the personification of all that thousands of downtrodden men and women hope and dream and desire . |
| 25 | That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers . |
| 26 | Before the end of the Interregnum he had amassed a modest fortune and had begun styling himself gentleman . |
| 27 | As a young man he had had a strong desire to visit the United States and decided to go there for a holiday , but as the liner approached New York , he dreamed that his mother ( to whom he was not particularly strongly attached ) was lonely and missed him , and this dream made him terribly homesick . |
| 28 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |
| 29 | About Amy he had drawn a complete blank . |
| 30 | Some thought he had suffered a momentary heart problem , but he was not running like a tired horse and afterwards was completely sound . |