Example sentences of "he would have a [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Well before the evening really got under way , he would have a couple of hundred roubles in his pocket , to be converted into a night of vodka-drinking and celebration .
2 Ebullient , and with a broad grin , Williams early sensed his own powers — at sixteen he told a friend that he would have a fellowship of the University of Wales , an 1851 exhibition , a D.Sc. , and an FRS by his middle thirties .
3 In the end , if this crime turned out to be something more than an abortive mugging , he would have a portrait of the victim and through that portrait some indication of why he had become one .
4 Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping .
5 If the eagle could only reach there in safety he would have a chance of following almost continuous high ground to Scotland …
6 He would have a sensation of something malignant about to crush him .
7 Within himself he would have a sensation of liquefying with giggles and of becoming extremely thin , like a puddle .
8 His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way .
9 He would have a lot of explaining to do if he were asked to open it .
10 He would give them the note ; and then he would have a method of beating the rhythm for several bars and — and this was always remarkable — the choir would enter with a sound that had an unbelievable power and precision in the attack .
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