Example sentences of "he has a " in BNC.

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1 The youth is sitting at a little distance , his shepherd 's pipe in his mouth ; there is a charming simplicity in his dress and appearance ; he has a fine head .
2 His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him .
3 He has a famous eulogy on status :
4 A director may have made it plain that he has a definite intention for a character , but the student may not always see this straight away .
5 He has a budget generous enough to allow creative cooking with the likes of caviar , fresh asparagus and smoked salmon at his contract , and also works within an environment that he finds friendly and relatively stress-free .
6 It is impossible to watch the towplane and the ground ahead during the climb out so that in the event of a launch failure the glider pilot has to look for a field , whereas in the normal tow position he has a good view of the fields ahead all the time .
7 He has a ‘ track record ’ in uniform , CID , Fraud Squad , and Complaints and Discipline .
8 He has a fine sense of humour , and he shows strong leadership qualities .
9 In The Spice-Box Of Earth he has a particularly pointed reference to it : ‘ Night , my old night …
10 He has a normal baseline game but he uses his head , and he uses his opportunities to attack every short ball .
11 ‘ If I do n't , he has a hypo ( hypoglycaemic attack ) , when his blood sugar dips too low .
12 He has a wonderful temperament .
13 He has a plan .
14 Rather , he has a plan of a plan : the plan being to murder an old money-lender , while the plan of that plan is to embark here and now , out of doors , in the glare and summer stench of Petersburg , upon a rehearsal of the murder .
15 Therefore he has a public front and function as well as an unhealthy yellow human face .
16 The instance here is of Stavrogin pretending to the provincial governor that he has a secret to communicate to him , and , when the unsuspecting old man ‘ hastily and trustfully ’ inclines his head , seizing his ear in his teeth and holding on to it , biting hard .
17 He has a nice verbalism .
18 If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) .
19 Like all protest lobbyists , he has a booklet .
20 He has a long way to go before equalling last year 's prize money of £42,399 , but the wonder horse proved that he is again in irresistible form when opening Whitaker 's account with a first prize of £3,700 .
21 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 .
22 And , while none of the industrial townscapes could be described as pretty , he has a terrific eye .
23 Second , he has a chance to assess the realities on the ground : East Germany 's internal political balance , and the prospects for the Honecker succession .
24 Both men took heavy blows and by withstanding the best of the American 's punches Mason at least emphasised that he has a strong enough chin .
25 And , while none of the industrial townscapes could be described as pretty , he has a terrific eye .
26 Oyston is also chairman and owner of Blackpool Football Club , and is seeking the permission of the League to waive their rule that no one may hold more than 10 per cent of a club if he has a financial interest in another .
27 He has a 15 per cent stake in United 's shares .
28 He has no chance of facing the tourists after suffering his fourth shoulder dislocation in Llanelli 's narrow home win over Neath and has been warned by doctors that unless he has a second operation he may never play again .
29 He also denies that his staff overstepped the mark in lobbying , saying he has a responsibility to explain all the options for the trade in addition to a full ban .
30 Despite his airforce fatigues ( he has a pilot 's licence ) and handlebar moustache ( he is a cult on the military base circuit ) his feet never leave the ground : but close your eyes and you 'd never know it .
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