Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country .
2 His job is to clean along the paths of the Zoo and that thing he pushes is for the rubbish he collects , and along its side he has two brooms and a shovel .
3 Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes .
4 By his first marriage he had three sons ( the youngest of whom died in infancy ) , and by the second one son and four daughters .
5 Despite this diligence in the diocese he had more leisure than at Durham and much more leisure than later .
6 As a man of honour he had little alternative but to accompany his friend to America .
7 Like most others , he had never really trusted that Earl ; but this throwing in his lot with the English , while still Scots Chief Warden of the Marches , was a dire betrayal by any standards , and most menacing for Berwick , since as Warden he had overall authority for the town and port , if not the castle .
8 In biology he had much observation to support him but in ‘ physics ’ he had no experimental evidence worth mentioning .
9 For a moment he had second thoughts .
10 But in addition to his qualities as a teacher he had undeniable glamour .
11 Outside chemistry he had many interests .
12 He said that on that day he had 70 pupils at the West Lothian college and Oatridge agricultural college , and the links between the colleges were excellent .
13 He must 've broken the other arm because the next day he had both arms in plaster .
14 In any event he had little time to give careful immediate consideration to the letter ; he merely wrote a short reply pressing Balfour to reconsider his position .
15 By his first wife he had three sons and three daughters .
16 That was his way , of course , always ; but on this occasion he had some cause for it .
17 In the middle of the night he had second thoughts and put on his clothes over his pyjamas .
18 All night he had bad dreams , terrible dreams .
19 And then again this morning he had another business engagement , but this time a different one , apparently , for he had put on his best suit and bowler hat and his black top-coat .
20 Last season he had 14 winners in Britain but those victories were sup-plemented by another £170,000 with two suc-cesses abroad in Kazoo and Colway Bold .
21 His defence said in mitigation he had sexual problems at home .
22 As Trade and Industry Secretary he had little trade and little industry to look after , continued the rebuker .
23 He also knew how to live well by dining at expensive restaurants and going to the theatre , and as the Heritage Secretary he had invaluable contacts in the acting world .
24 In all first-class cricket he had 2,784 victims ( average 18.16 ) , taking a hundred wickets in no less than fourteen seasons , including three times when he captured more than 200 wickets .
25 In any case he had dangerous worries on his own doorstep .
26 In fact he was so attracted to the canal with its brightly painted barges pulled by strong horses that his parents finally had to forbid him to go there in case he had another accident .
27 When Clark took off his shirt he had black-and-blue bruises over his shoulders and arm .
28 Now of course he has two failures to build upon .
29 And on this farm he had some ducks eei eei Oh
30 Was this sort of fluey thing he had last week ?
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