Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |
| 2 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 3 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 4 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 5 | He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 6 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 7 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
| 8 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 9 | Asked once what he would do if he knew he had six months to live , he replied : ‘ I 'd type faster . ’ |
| 10 | He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs . |
| 11 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
| 12 | last year 's individual with us he had I think he had he had five A levels of which four were grade A and one was greed B grade B. |
| 13 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 14 | He said he had two sisters but that he was the only and beloved son . |
| 15 | He said he had environmental credentials as he was a life member of the British Butterfly Conservation Society and was also a member of the Kent branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England . |
| 16 | We reached his office where he said he had some paperwork to complete before we stopped fairly soon for ten minutes at Kenora . |
| 17 | He said he had some news , but it was only for my ears and I must keep it confidential . |
| 18 | He loved his little daughter , but he wished she had less energy . |