Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have [verb] 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 | In the village he had noticed an old crumbling building with the word ‘ SCHOOL ’ outside it , and he had seen children a little younger than himself disappear inside it in the mornings then reappear sometime in the afternoon . |
| 3 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 4 | Thomas was sent to £2,500-a-term boarding school in Norfolk , where with specialist help he has made an enormous improvement . |
| 5 | During the war he had adopted a neo-romantic style in his drawings of landscapes , apple trees , houses and labouring figures . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Before his Colette-Willy period he had contributed a weekly column of musical criticism to a Bordeaux newspaper . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Never mind you can play the Bare Naked Lady thingummybobs and er then hopefully we go oh he 's in the shop he 's had a few customers we 'll get back to John a bit later . |
| 10 | Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes . |
| 11 | Well look at this daddy he 's eaten a whole bowlful of it |
| 12 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 13 | In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The prime minister acknowledged this month he had accepted an interest-free one-million-franc loan from Pelat in 1986 . |
| 17 | every week he 's got a different sort of format . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 20 | [ 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 . |
| 21 | For a start he has to find a receptive female — not always easy with animals as solitary and spread about the forest as orangs . |
| 22 | That morning he had bought a whole barrel of Gunpowder Pepper from one of the human victuallers . |
| 23 | That morning he 'd revived an old custom . |
| 24 | Before the end of the Interregnum he had amassed a modest fortune and had begun styling himself gentleman . |
| 25 | Mind you , I ca n't blame Mary : her husband Darnley was so pitted with the pox he had to drape a white veil over his face . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Some thought he had suffered a momentary heart problem , but he was not running like a tired horse and afterwards was completely sound . |
| 29 | With Romy he 'd had a real romance but it had flourished only on the Continent and withered in the cold climate of England . |
| 30 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |