Example sentences of "[that] he have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 2 | He also learned that Sir Charles believed these supernatural stories , and that he had a weak heart . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She did not trust the count even though she admitted that he had a strange effect on her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fact that he had a lower sex drive than she did was n't considered unreasonable behaviour . |
| 7 | Gratified by his sister 's distress , he then whispered that he had a dark secret to tell them : the place was haunted . |
| 8 | I remember little about him except that he had a black beard flecked with grey , and gave me oranges . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He said that he had a violent head pain . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As I talked to him , however , I soon realized that he had a great aura of authority and self-assurance . |
| 16 | It turned out that he had a small dredger , an even smaller budget , and a very primitive brand of mowing machine . |
| 17 | My grandfather , who was one of the aircraft pioneers , told me that he had a long argument with Cody about whether a certain member was in tension or in compression in flight . |
| 18 | She does n't know any of their names , but she remembers that he had a long scar running right up his hand . |
| 19 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 20 | Heard that he had a walkie-talkie radio on which he could give the engineer instructions to slow down further , and to stop . |
| 21 | He had also engaged to do the same thing for Chief Superintendent John Coffin and one or two other enemies if he could get round to them , but he had let Place know that he had a prior claim . |
| 22 | He kept stroking his own hand , then bursting into tears at his inability to communicate ; was it , as Margaret supposed afterwards , that he was trying to say that he had a second bank-book which they needed to find ? |
| 23 | Niki was lucky when he began at Ferrari in that he had a powerful intermediary in Luca Montezemolo , a gentleman in the Italian style , enormously suave , even-tempered , civilized and amiable . |
| 24 | The later epitaph suggests that he had a good knowledge of canon law : ‘ legis / doctorem tenuit illa ’ ( namely Gallia ) . |
| 25 | It pointed out that he had a good defence to the action , namely that he was not responsible for publication . |
| 26 | The matter is now governed by section 6 of the Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 which provides that if the improver acted in the mistaken but honest belief that he had a good title , an allowance is to be made for the extent to which the value of the goods at the time at which it falls to be assessed , is attributable to the improvement . |
| 27 | His father believed that he had a good eye and could have played the game well if he was not liable to slip into a trance and forget that his attention was needed . |
| 28 | For this purpose the employer must show that he had a good reason for sacking the employee . |
| 29 | It was emotionally captivating to see a truck laden with consumer goods draw up at Tazarbu , to hear the driver announce that he had a new poem from Muhammad Dabub in Ajdabiya , and to see shopkeepers , customers and driver sit in the shade to listen to the poem . |
| 30 | Harley was next and I saw with interest that he had a new caddie who was unknown to me . |