Example sentences of "[noun sg] he had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He indicated to the 38-year-old cashier he had a gun , but no weapon was seen during the incident . |
| 2 | Ma Smith took in gentlemen paying guests and for his outlay he had a bedroom , a personal sitting room and the dedicated service of the widowed Mrs Smith and her daughters . |
| 3 | In his heyday he had a memory like a clamp . |
| 4 | When he came out into the bright white daylight he had a shock . |
| 5 | In 1728 he married Susan ( died 1743 ) , the daughter of Stephen Colt , and from this marriage he had a son ( died 1752 ) and two daughters . |
| 6 | On his desk he had a box full of eyes . |
| 7 | At work he had a job title , and his own parking space . |
| 8 | From where he was sitting by the narrow little window he had a view of the meagre garden and beyond it , in the distance , a huge white bull in a field of white heifers . |
| 9 | By his second he had a son who died in infancy , and a daughter born 1641 . |
| 10 | Neil poor boy he had a driving lesson yesterday came home and said I do n't want to do any more ! |
| 11 | I mentioned earlier that just when you thought that the moment had arrived for Mike McFarlane to make a breakthrough he had a setback , and in 1981 this applied also to me . |
| 12 | As a yachtsman he had a touch of genius . |
| 13 | He told the terrified girl he had a knife , then made her walk down a river footpath , across a bridge and into an alley . |
| 14 | Asked why the interest in Elvis , Walken said that a girl he had a crush on in school used to carry round a picture of her boyfriend , and this was used as an excuse for why Walken could n't take her to his high school prom . |
| 15 | The inspector advised him that in his opinion he had a drink problem and should do something about it . |
| 16 | He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night . |
| 17 | And when he was nearly killed when he crashed his car on a motorway he had a Brahms symphony on his radio , which he now uses as his theme tune . |
| 18 | By his second wife he had a daughter and two sons ; his elder son was killed aged nineteen in the Guards Armoured division on the Dutch-German border in 1944 . |
| 19 | By his first wife he had a son , Richard . |
| 20 | Then one night he had a nightmare in which he saw his own birth and death . |
| 21 | Last night he had a choice between a quiet evening at home and the outdoor concert . |
| 22 | Last night he had a throat , tonight both throat and life have gone . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ For publicity he had a talent unmatched by any other politician of this century . |
| 24 | over round the left hand side in the first place , but she must have been in the wrong so they must have seen it as well , they have n't really got a strong case so they threw it out of court and last week he had a letter , he opened it , from the , from the court , and he thought oh gawld here we go again , he 's got jury service , oh |
| 25 | And yet he had promised Skelton he would look at some land around Loweswater , and announced that he was so taken with the district he had a mind to settle in it — a statement which brought Miss Skelton to a blush-brink of applause . |
| 26 | He was an administrator now as well as a detective , so that in the morning he had a report to write , two interviews to conduct , while in the afternoon he must drive to central London to attend a committee . |
| 27 | In a small pub by a bridge he had a drink and a salad . |
| 28 | Filming Scent of a Woman he had a scene in which he stepped straight out into the speeding traffic . |
| 29 | Last season he had a disc operation on his back . |
| 30 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |