Example sentences of "[conj] he have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some men could hide there , where he had a small tower . |
| 2 | The body of Arthur Brumhill , who was 76 , was found last Friday in the basement of a pet shop where he had a part-time job . |
| 3 | The body of Arthur Brumhill , who was 76 , was found last Friday in the basement of a pet shop where he had a part-time job . |
| 4 | He subsequently went to King 's College , Cambridge , where he had a distinguished career as exhibitioner , scholar , and fellow . |
| 5 | Alongside this and particularly following the Exeter commission , Fowler also maintained his connection with his native county where he had a long-standing patron in William Courtenay , tenth Earl of Devon , his works including the Totnes bridge ( 1826–8 ) , a small group of churches , and alterations to the Earl of Devon 's Powderham Castle ( 1837–48 ) . |
| 6 | And having found a vantage-point where he had a clear view of the meadows and was himself sheltered , he halted his pony and stood to watch , narrowing his eyes to single out coat-armour , and number the forces in the English party . |
| 7 | He stayed in Buckingham Palace where he had a special classroom just for him . |
| 8 | In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee . |
| 9 | LABOUR 'S front bench has stayed away from Livingstone 's constituency , where he has a slender majority of 1,653 . |
| 10 | Basil makes his stage debut at Darlington Civic Theatre today where he has a brief walk-on part in the show Big Friendly Giant . |
| 11 | Although he had a stylish vulnerability when it came to cars , driving was not Baxter 's strong point . |
| 12 | In July the Eliots travelled up to Leeds , and although he had a mild infection in August he said that he felt in much better health . |
| 13 | My own father ( 1897-1940 ) was one of those who , although he had a brilliant mind , came from a large , poor , working-class family . |
| 14 | Maxim did n't mind , although he had a vague sense Apgood was seeing something he 'd missed himself . |
| 15 | Although he had a magnificent view from the top of the Mount Lofty range of the Murray River , winding its course across the flats through a belt of dense dwarf eucalypti , there is no mention of his ever having reached its banks , let alone the remote western bend 100 miles away . |
| 16 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 17 | It would n't have worked out with the first gentleman as it happens , because although he had a lovely smile , he was a ladies ' man and he did like drink too much . |
| 18 | Although he had an unrivalled ability to motivate players , Docherty 's approach often bordered on theatre of cruelty . |
| 19 | He also learned that Sir Charles believed these supernatural stories , and that he had a weak heart . |
| 20 | Pritt , KC , later Chairman of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR , appeared for Nguyen Ai Quoc , and Stafford Cripps for the Hong Kong government ; he quickly decided that he had a weak case and deportation to French territory was dropped . |
| 21 | She did not trust the count even though she admitted that he had a strange effect on her . |
| 22 | He claimed that he had a reasonable excuse within s.178(2) in that s.10 of the contempt of Court Act 1981 conferred an immunity on journalists from disclosing a source of information unless the disclosure was necessary for the prevention of crime . |
| 23 | Gratified by his sister 's distress , he then whispered that he had a dark secret to tell them : the place was haunted . |
| 24 | I remember little about him except that he had a black beard flecked with grey , and gave me oranges . |
| 25 | He was out of place among the pots and pans and plaster Alsatians and bread crocks ; he was an Easter Island figure , ungainly and antique , put together on another , earlier pattern than that of most men , so that you would not guess , to look at him , that he had a loving heart . |
| 26 | He said that he had a violent head pain . |
| 27 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 28 | It was said when he first arrived at Wigan that he had a great act to follow after Lowe but that becomes even more relevant this time for fellow Aussie John Dorahy who takes over the reins . |
| 29 | Sydney Smirke said that he had a great regard for Scott , but the profession should resist ‘ the attempts of a certain set of mediaeval dilettanti to force on us their thirteenth-century style ’ . |
| 30 | So when Harry Bowling 's first book was submitted to us , Connor Street 's War , we felt that there was great potential and that he had a great future . |