Example sentences of "he had a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 2 | The court held that the facts did not constitute robbery because the accused was not dishonest , because he thought he had a legal right to the money ( see the discussion of s.2(1) ( a ) above ) . |
| 3 | If a man could love flowers and arrange a garden like that , then he had a nice side to him . |
| 4 | He had a great deal to be grateful for . |
| 5 | He had a great objection to plays and novels and to romances and poems , but reflected that Our Saviour spoke in parables , and that fables might therefore be admitted in moral discussions . |
| 6 | Parkhill played superbly with birdies at three holes , including the second where he had a four iron to one inch from the hole . |
| 7 | In actual fact he had a deep-seated aversion to all dogs , almost amounting to a phobia , which increased in direct proportion to the size of the breed . |
| 8 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 9 | In the lodging house he had a tiny cubicle to himself but privacy was impossible . |
| 10 | He had a rooted antipathy to T. S. Eliot which , even after they had both become famous as defenders of the faith and brothers in Christ , was still hard to shake off . |
| 11 | He had a powerful aversion to climbing up rigging . ’ |
| 12 | It pointed out that he had a good defence to the action , namely that he was not responsible for publication . |
| 13 | ‘ What will he do , ’ yelled Rafiq , as if he had a good answer to this question , ‘ when he comes ? ’ |
| 14 | Furthermore , as will be seen , he had a personal commitment to the forging of an explicit relationship between English , education , culture , and the processes of liberal democracy . |
| 15 | He had a strong desire to be a ‘ peace-keeper ’ . |
| 16 | To the men under him he was a most considerate and loyal officer , but he had a darker side to his character . |
| 17 | If her son had n't got a name , at least she was going to see that he had a proper lining to his stomach . |
| 18 | He said he had a fundamental objection to a health campaign being used to promote the use of condoms , which was a multinational business . |
| 19 | I 've read about Mr help line , I did n't realise he had a direct connection to the almighty but he 's obviously got his instructions and erm we are very pleased that he 's going along the right lines . |
| 20 | I saw that he had a pompous side to him , so certain he seemed in taste and judgement . |
| 21 | From 37–1 down he had a 64 clearance to pink and Parrott said afterwards . |
| 22 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 23 | He had a big putt to hole on the 17th and he did n't make it . |
| 24 | Even leading up to the filming , there were doubts about Adrian Maguire riding Cool Ground as he had a previous tie to Omerta . |
| 25 | He had a happy beginning to his childhood , and the household was a happy peaceful and loving one , until Sarah , at a very advanced time of her life , became pregnant . |
| 26 | He had a hard edge to his voice . |
| 27 | He had to be able to perform even though already ‘ at this young age he had a realistic approach to his future and with his ‘ banana feet ’ realized that he could not become a danseur noble and that his great interest was in choreography . |
| 28 | Thus he had an inherent antipathy to the idea that law , even Church law , canon law , could achieve anything that was good for the Church . |