Example sentences of "he had [art] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he felt a certain satisfaction in hearing that his fears were not groundless , although he had every sympathy for poor Jane Cartwright 's mishap . |
| 2 | Although he had no figures for 1992 Unix sales worldwide , he did note that France normally comprises 16% of European Unix revenues . |
| 3 | The fact that he had no licence for this particular gun was , she said , an oversight . |
| 4 | He had no taste for further encounters with either Cunningham or his wife . |
| 5 | It was things like that gave you the feeling he had no use for white men or our ways . |
| 6 | Though tall and strong for his age he had no liking for hard physical work and he was slow to give Moran any help on the land . |
| 7 | An Army report once said he had no regard for human life . |
| 8 | But he had no time for idle speculation . |
| 9 | His personal character is difficult to fathom , but he had a capacity for deep and long-lasting friendships . |
| 10 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 11 | ‘ Secondly , he had a passion for Arthurian legend and lore and searched for the Grail and Excalibur . |
| 12 | Since he also believed , after the meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 , that Austria would take a lead from Russia on Ottoman affairs , he began to feel that he had a mandate for resolute action when the " eastern question " next arose . |
| 13 | As so many of his contemporaries did , he had a penchant for traditional cottage architecture and was particularly fond of the Kentish styles and materials , having worked for Lord de l'Isle at Penshurst . |
| 14 | He had a desire for strong and lasting friendship , but he judged his friends severely , expecting them to be as eager as he was to know , see and feel everything . |
| 15 | He had an aversion for proper names , employing instead a number of poetic circumlocutions . |
| 16 | Once he had the capacity for international road race events . |
| 17 | He had the potential for massive press coverage . |