Example sentences of "[pron] he have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Crosby said : ‘ If he looks after himself he has a great chance . |
| 2 | He was educated at Marlborough College , to which he had a lifelong devotion , and at Balliol College , Oxford , where he captained both the cricket and hockey XIs and where he obtained a first class in classical honour moderations ( 1924 ) and second classes in mathematical moderations ( 1924 ) and literae humaniores ( 1926 ) . |
| 3 | He had , however , a natural ability with a penny-whistle , of which he had a great number , one of which he always carried in his pocket . |
| 4 | He was habited youthfully , in black jacket and trousers , over which he had a dripping cape . |
| 5 | McCallen has been having problems with the RVF Honda for which he had a new engine during final practice and as a result , his times have not been up to scratch . |
| 6 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 7 | ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement . |
| 8 | For years he was a member of the Saturday sub editorial staff processing the comprehensive sports copy flowing in from all parts of the world for Ireland Saturday Night , a newspaper for which he had a deep affection . |
| 9 | Within days of moving up he assumed a Farmer Giles accent , extra-shapeless trousers ( nothing is so sexless as an Englishman 's trousers ) , broken boots ( ‘ They do n't just let water in , they suck it in , ’ he said proudly ) , and most important , a bucket hat , of which he had a whole series . |
| 10 | With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation . |
| 11 | This principle may be infringed when a member of a board takes part in the granting or the rejection of an application for a licence in which he has a personal interest . |
| 12 | Our client is the sole director of a private company in which he has a substantial interest . |
| 13 | Managing director and major shareholder Peter Kemmis Betty has been appointed president — a non-executive position but one which will enable him to concentrate on editorial areas , chess and archaeology , in which he has a particular interest . |
| 14 | American fast food family contrasting with a British gastronomic club in a strange black comedy , a genre for which he has a growing reputation . |
| 15 | Andrew might also consider it a useful opportunity to further his England captaincy claims , for which he has a growing number of supporters — although he expresses no such wish , since his old school-mate , Will Carling , currently holds the job . |
| 16 | He had made his best friend aboard promise that he would not be buried at sea — something he had a great fear of — but on land . |
| 17 | The tour was a shock to the system , particularly Gordon 's : back home afterwards , his doctor told him he had a damaged liver . |
| 18 | To help him he has a hand-picked team of the country 's most experienced prosecutors . |
| 19 | His habit of electioneering from a white Rolls Royce sometimes attracted comment and he told me he had a silver-tipped cane with which to tap at doors of council flats in Fulham , though I was never sure whether to believe him . |
| 20 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 21 | Has , for me he has a strong dislike for |
| 22 | No one else did , and Salah was careful to stagger the entertainments so that the foreign teachers ( for whom he had a certain distaste ) should arrive and leave before the other guests . |
| 23 | It must have looked to him — and to the viewers , with whom he had a strong following — that his status as television performer would suffer . |
| 24 | There is little doubt that in his reference to ‘ people ’ he was excluding Professor Barker for whom he had a high regard . |
| 25 | Some think he plays the role of sage , especially to Gedge , with whom he has a solid friendship . |
| 26 | ‘ He might discuss some business matters with my father , for whom he has a tremendous respect , but apart from the fact that he does n't live at Parkwood any more he never boasts . ’ |
| 27 | Consequently , Raymond spends his days trying to understand psychotic murderers ( ‘ they 're all bores because they see the rest of the world as flat , and extension of themselves ’ ) , serial killers ( ‘ invariably gifted men ’ ) and the police , for whom he has a particular sympathy . |
| 28 | He singles them out for favour … [ especially ] Arabs for whom he has a particular affection . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I am honoured by the prince 's interest — but I doubt not it stems from mere curiosity as to my connection with her for whom he has a brotherly fondness . ’ |
| 30 | Relapse in the absence of a precipitating event is most likely to occur when the patient is living in a situation characterised by high expressed emotion between himself and a relative with whom he has a high degree of contact . |