Example sentences of "[conj] he had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was thus well fitted for his long stint as justiciar of Ireland ( 1245–56 ) , where he had private interests through the dower of his wife , Isabel ( daughter of Hugh Bigod , third Earl of Norfolk ) , who was the widow of Gilbert de Lacy of Meath .
2 HP 's Larry Lytle , loaned to the Open Software Foundation back at its inception to handle recruiting , has made a 180 degree turn after a stint at Netwise as strategic relations director where he had philosophical differences with OSf : He 's now gone to Unix System Labs as director of corporate communications .
3 Mr Birt was headhunted as a freelance from London Weekend Television six years ago where he had similar tax arrangements with the commercial station .
4 He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately .
5 Sold as a two-year-old at the Doncaster Sales to race in Spain , he won a number of races in that country — where he had seven trainers — before making his mark internationally when winning the Prix du Cadran in France as a four-year-old .
6 By 1668 Fromanteel himself had moved to The Hague , where he had earlier trading and perhaps family connections .
7 Eastwood 's superb kicking was the vital difference between the sides , although he had little chance of grabbing the try he needed for a career total of 100 as Hull took a winning route up the middle of the field .
8 Although he had four years of orgies with Debbie Harry and Joan Jett at the paper between 1978 and '82 , he never kidded himself that he was on first-name terms with pop .
9 Well let's just consider for a moments then this morning , in in some of the ways in which we can be like Pilate the first thing I see here is that Pilate rejected the Lord Jesus Christ although he had tremendous opportunities of doing otherwise .
10 ‘ He did not know a great deal about navigation , although he had enough fuel to get to France , but all he had with him was a holdall with a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a sports diary with a map of the world in it . ’
11 Although he had full access to legal counsel , he was not allowed to reveal details of his abduction to the judges .
12 A tolerant man , enjoying solitude , although he had Protestant sympathies , he gives no sign of any antipathy to Catholicism .
13 In this 1976 series he was still unsure of himself tactically , gave the impression that he had little plan of campaign thought out , and often seemed to be changing his bowling and field settings more on a whim than on a good tactical basis .
14 He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was .
15 While Hurley remained preoccupied with inter-agency projects like Operation Goldenrod , Ganem soon made it clear to Coleman that he had little patience with Hurley 's intelligence operations .
16 His quarrel with Luther meant that he had little influence in Germany , but there was something about his insistence on thrift , application , and hard work for its own sake that struck sympathetic chords in the Zurich temperament .
17 And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets .
18 Through the haze of Bell 's which had been the weekend , it had become clear that he had little alternative .
19 After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research .
20 The fact that he had little confidence in his horse did not help .
21 Press reports suggested that he had little room for negotiation in that he could offer Saddam Hussein no relaxation of the requirement for immediate withdrawal and the unconditional acceptance of UN resolutions .
22 One reason , no doubt , was that he had little tolerance for real pagan myths or for naïve mythicizers .
23 This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry — and indeed he had .
24 They will be wholly ineffective for this purpose if the patient is incapable of understanding them , they are not explained to him and there is no good evidence ( apart from the patient 's signature ) that he had that understanding and fully appreciated the significance of signing it .
25 I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot
26 And that he had that house built , er , like er , before he got in it and it was paid , built and paid for like , you know and that .
27 Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake .
28 He told the plaintiffs that he had two paintings by Munter for sale and accordingly an employee of the plaintiffs visited the defendants ' gallery to view the paintings .
29 On 15 August 1991 when she visited social services with D. , it was found that he had two scratches on his cheek and a bruise and the mother would not say how those were caused .
30 We can see that he had two views of what constitutes a ‘ law ’ , or perhaps we should say that he had two views as to how ‘ laws ’ manifest themselves .
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