Example sentences of "[adv] he had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were then two lean seasons before suddenly he had another taste of victory in the recent Sunningdale Foursomes . |
| 2 | If only he had some security , if only his art supplies were replenished . |
| 3 | If only he had some tools … |
| 4 | He foresaw the decimation of the Hawaiian people ; perhaps he had some premonition of his own end too . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps he had another row with his Mam and Dad , then . |
| 6 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 7 | ‘ My first reaction was jealously he had great legs , ’ she said . |
| 8 | Coming almost certainly from a middle-class or working-class home , once his seminary days were over he had little opportunity for further education . |
| 9 | Elsewhere he had little success . |
| 10 | He was the last of the brothers ; whether or not he had any part in their deaths he could be the key to a clearer understanding of the two who had died . |
| 11 | Though determined as ever he had more wisdom and caution than he had years ago . |
| 12 | Later he had little attraction for the Caroline Divines or the Oxford Movement , to tease whose members the Martyrs ' Memorial at Oxford was built in commemoration of the execution of Cranmer , Latimer and Ridley ; the consciences of Newman , Pusey and Keble were exquisitely tom as they tried to decide whether to subscribe and how their subscriptions to the Memorial Fund might be earmarked for the least heretical of the martyrs . |
| 13 | In 1871 he was described as farmer of 20 acres and ten years later he had 28 acres . |
| 14 | This was the Preface to a selection of the poems , which Leavis was to handle roughly , as he felt that Eliot had no business to be praising Tennyson , any more than later he had any business to be endorsing Kipling . |
| 15 | Less than three months later he had another announcement : he would be returning to Williams in 1991 . |
| 16 | Also he had little time . |
| 17 | Clearly he had little aptitude for meekness either . |
| 18 | Just two weeks before starting work at Rentokil Dick married his wife Pat , so really he had 50 years to celebrate ! |
| 19 | Now he had one peculiarity when he was a-ploughin' : he had to have his pipe going before he could start . |
| 20 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
| 21 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |
| 22 | He only found out he had few months to live ! |
| 23 | well he had all sorts of |
| 24 | Perhaps he 'll keep it out there , well he had that patch to it did n't he ? |
| 25 | Well he had second thoughts and then he changed his mi , he put his hand in and said , There you are . |
| 26 | Well he had brown hair ! |
| 27 | time well he had some fat of ham |
| 28 | Luckily he had some friends at the University and it was arranged that he would open a shop there and become ‘ Mathematical Instrument Maker to the University ’ . |
| 29 | The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 . |
| 30 | He had been better able to tolerate it ten years ago , but then he had drunk alcohol to be like other people and to impress , not because he liked it . |