Example sentences of "[pers pn] has a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid she has a most irreverent attitude — and some of our gentlemen have quite a wide circle of acquaintances , so of course we must be able to offer complete discretion … ’ |
| 2 | She has a rather histrionic outlook on life sometimes . |
| 3 | She has a highly interesting job which allows her to remain in close contact with patient care . |
| 4 | Well she has a marvellously engaging personality . |
| 5 | For the woman in our example , it might just be that in fact she has a very small frame and she should therefore be 8 st 2 lb. |
| 6 | ‘ She has a very acute awareness of the need to inform the public , ’ he said . |
| 7 | She has a very strong sense of duty and a great capacity for making relationships , and so far , by some miracle , perhaps because of the very close bond between her and her mother , her experience does not seem to have coarsened her or made her cynical . |
| 8 | She has a very special talent and her work is completely fresh . |
| 9 | La Carlotta can not sing — she has a very ugly voice , like a toad . |
| 10 | Hockley just earned a qualifying spot with rounds of 83 and 82 , but that means she has a very tough opening match against Catrina Lambert . |
| 11 | As we dance I find myself staring at the French girl — she has a very pretty face with long , dark hair on to her shoulders , slim build and about 5′ 2″ in height . |
| 12 | As she has a deeply freckled skin , they believed her and she was sent to do hard labour in the paddy fields . |
| 13 | ‘ She has a distressingly simple mind , with only room for a single idea at any one time . |
| 14 | In the case of the biography the author is even less likely to be attracted to writing at second hand about a nobody , and what is more , he has a completely open field of all the somebodies that he chooses to tackle . |
| 15 | But he has a rather curious story which the Commissioner at New Scotland Yard has asked us to look into . |
| 16 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 17 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 18 | He has a keenly critical mind and is an excellent speaker — one of the best speakers in the House . |
| 19 | To the contrary , he has a pretty steady history and has survived the investigative onslaught pretty well … |
| 20 | In The Spice-Box Of Earth he has a particularly pointed reference to it : ‘ Night , my old night … |
| 21 | Not Wright — he 's happy with it at his feet wherever he is and on top of that he has a quite phenomenal strike-rate . |
| 22 | Today though , at the age of 57 , and with just hours before the New Year , he has a more simple wish . |
| 23 | Glass says he has a naturally high level of production . |
| 24 | He has a very nice voice — and he does n't shout at people . ’ |
| 25 | He has a very good knowledge and superb technique which enable him to sue every second of studio time . |
| 26 | ‘ He has a very good team here and he would be better off letting them do his talking for him . ’ |
| 27 | If the Roker captain can breath satisfactorily after training this morning , he has a very real chance of playing . |
| 28 | ‘ He has a very strong character and poetry , painting and football are just different ways of expressing himself . |
| 29 | He will take in the Cookstown 100 , as he has a very strong supporters club there , and the North West 200 , provided he can fit in the following day 's Donington Park meeting . |
| 30 | He has a very narrow range of acquaintance . ’ |