Example sentences of "[num] he had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 2 | Sir Robert Morier , perhaps the most successful British diplomat of the later nineteenth century , was partly French : in 1870 he had six cousins fighting in the French army . |
| 3 | From Hut 5 he had thirty yards of snow space to cross . |
| 4 | But in the early 1160s he had little success at bending the Welsh princes to his will , while one major invasion attempt in July 1165 was thwarted by atrocious summer weather . |
| 5 | There was then an open toughness about party tactics ; before the Buckingham Palace Conference in 1914 he had Central Office work out the electoral effects of excluding nine , six or four counties of Ulster from an independent Ireland the concern of a calculating pragmatist not of a bigot . |
| 6 | Until he was fifteen he had private tuition which concentrated on classics and law , but in August 1803 he was able , with much difficulty , to break away to sea , entering the Royal Navy in 1803 . |