Example sentences of "[pron] he had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He burned his bridges , and , working solely on small-scale projects over which he had total control , descended into drink and drugs . |
| 2 | Innocent was beset with problems which he had little chance of solving as the sands constantly shifted and political and economic undercurrents conditioned behaviour . |
| 3 | I can imagine the mordant amusement with which Sir Ian watched the poll tax legislation of a government with which he had little sympathy being hissed off the statute book amid public disorder to the alarm of its erstwhile supporters . |
| 4 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 5 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |
| 6 | Gilford was the star performer with his iron play , especially in an outward 31 in which he had six birdies . |
| 7 | Also in 1893 he undertook the restoration of St Peter 's Church , West Knighton , the only restoration for which he had sole responsibility , at a time when he was writing Jude the Obscure . |
| 8 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 9 | In the thirty-six years of which he had conscious memory of Mrs Farr Senior , their relationship had never developed beyond the ‘ is n't it a nice day ? ’ stage . |
| 10 | In his account of the final stage , it is as if the unheard melody of which he had some intimation suddenly becomes audible and transposes all his experience into its terms : In my prayer I was reaching out to heaven with heartfelt longing when I became aware , in a way I can not explain , of a symphony of song , and in myself I sensed a corresponding harmony at once wholly delectable and heavenly , which persisted in my mind . |
| 11 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 12 | He did not actually handle or take possession of any documents , and is unable to substantiate the detail or authenticity of papers of which he had some sight . ’ |
| 13 | Coucy soon rose high in favour at court : in 1363 Edward granted him lands in north Lancashire , Cumberland and Westmorland to which he had some claim by inheritance ; two years later he married Isabella , and in 1366 the king created him Earl of Bedford with an endowment of 1,000 marks a year . |
| 14 | Remember I told you he had that job checking street-lamps ? |
| 15 | When the midwife interrupted the prayers to inform him he had another daughter he replied tersely , " I 'll attend to it all when I 've finished here . " |
| 16 | Something about Adam Burns told her he had great powers of perception — she 'd do her own case no good at all by letting him know how deeply unsettling she found his questions . |
| 17 | He was married in 1631 in London to Maria de Bruijne from Colchester , by whom he had six sons and two daughters . |
| 18 | He spent some time in Holland in the company of an Indian guru with whom he had long walks and conversations through which came the realization that he should build a new career around his two key interests : his satisfaction in working with children and his love of Art . |
| 19 | About this time Gough married Joan Wood , of Peplow , by whom he had eight children between 1663 and 1678 . |
| 20 | He married Elizabeth Leonie Knowles , by whom he had eleven children ; their two sons both went to Cambridge University before entering the family business , of which they later became directors . |
| 21 | At the age of twenty-one he joined his father 's lace business , and in the following year ( 1881 ) he married Annie Maria Winlaw , the daughter of a baker , with whom he had four daughters and three sons . |
| 22 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 23 | He married first in early 1600 Catherine , daughter of William Killegrew of Hanworth , Middlesex , by whom he had one daughter and four sons , including Thomas and Henry ; secondly Mary ( died 1679 ) , daughter of Edmund Barber of Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk , and widow of Thomas Newton of Edgefield , Norfolk , by whom he had a son and a daughter . |
| 24 | He married , first , in 1677 , Gertrude , daughter of William Morice , Presbyterian MP , who died in 1679 ; and second , in 1691 , Gwen , daughter of Sir Robert Williams , baronet , of Penrhyn , Cornwall , by whom he had one son and three daughters . |
| 25 | In 1545 he married Mabel , daughter of Mark Digneley of Wolverton in the Isle of Wight , by whom he had no children , and in 1551 Margaret , daughter of Ralph Daniell of Swaffham , Norfolk , by whom he had one son , ( Sir ) George [ q.v. ] , and two daughters ; the elder , Elizabeth , married Richard Polsted , Wolley , and in 1597 Lord Keeper Sir Thomas Egerton ( later Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley ) . |
| 26 | He was married three times : to Margaret , daughter of Joseph Gatey of Keswick , Cumberland , in 1869 , who died in 1877 and by whom he had two daughters ; to Jessy Henrietta , daughter of James Stewart of Clapham , Yorkshire , in 1880 , who died in 1904 ; and to Florence Maude , daughter of the Revd Robert Daniel of Osbaldwick , Yorkshire and widow of Colonel J. Lawson Whalley , in 1909 . |
| 27 | On 9 July 1877 Matcham married Robinson 's younger daughter Maria , by whom he had two daughters . |
| 28 | He also ignored the extent to which the concrete policies of Derry Labour , as distinct from its rhetoric , were the common currency of all opponents of the Unionist Party , including the Nationalists , for whom he had boundless contempt . |
| 29 | Sir John Markham was married three times ; first to Anne , daughter of Sir George Neville , by whom he had three sons ; secondly to Margery , daughter of Ralph Longford ; and thirdly around 1521 to Anne , widow of Richard Stanhope of Rampton , by whom he had two further sons and three daughters . |
| 30 | His first wife was Cicely Cresley , by whom he had three sons : Robert , who became Somerset herald in 1597 , Ralph ( also a surveyor ) , and Christopher . |