Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was then that she saw Christie Goldsborough coming towards her along the path , his spectacular , fur-lined driving-cape swinging loose around his shoulders , his feet encased in the finest quality leather , his carriage — a shiny , high-perch sporting phaeton — waiting for him just there , in the road beyond the church wall , whenever he had a mind to take the reins in his gloved hands and go dashing off to drink champagne and eat bride-cake at Frizingley Hall . |
| 2 | It was difficult to know whether she had understood everything he had tried to explain to her about his being involved in a case in which she was the chief witness , about his career , and how he had a mother and sister to support . |
| 3 | Paddy always reminds me how he had an offer of a job new I would n't go |
| 4 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 5 | He thought of the days when he had a mother , and friends , and beautiful things in his life . |
| 6 | The last heard of Karl was at the end of the war when he had a job as a waiter . |
| 7 | In sickness and old age , as well as when he had a number of young children , poor relief was the accepted , inevitable and unresented lot of the labouring man . |
| 8 | I mean if he was going to attack me , he 'd surely do it at some time when he had a reason to be angry . |
| 9 | LIVERPOOL 'S Jan Molby suffered another injury setback last night when he had an ankle operation . |
| 10 | Similarly , David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan referred to using headhunters when he had an eye on a specific person within another company : a headhunter could discreetly and confidentially find out if that person might consider moving , before the name of the interested party , i.e. Grand Metropolitan , need be revealed . |
| 11 | After an absence of over 20 years John recently rejoined the JCR when he had an accommodation problem whilst working on a contract in Birmingham . |
| 12 | Minton bought him a motorbike and he was travelling on this to a match with the All Blacks when he had an accident . |
| 13 | The main focus of the cult of Imhotep was , however , at Memphis , at Saqqara where he had a temple , the Asclepeion . |
| 14 | Chapman , a Yorkshireman , had not had much success as a player , but he shone as a manager , first with Huddersfield and then with Arsenal , where he had a salary of £2,000 a year and wrote a column for the Sunday Express into the bargain . |
| 15 | It took him five hours to walk back to Leyton , where he had a bed-sit . |
| 16 | He 'd acquired a gasoline kicker engine from somewhere with an exhaust that run and he had made during picked up from scraps and stuff and made it , so where he had a tub right on top of this gasoline engine . |
| 17 | After leaving Paris where he had attended the CSCE conference on Nov. 19-21 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] , Bush had himself visited the Middle East from Nov. 21 , spending the following day ( the US Thanksgiving Day ) with US troops in Saudi Arabia , meeting King Fahd there and Egypt 's President Mubarak in Cairo , and returning via Geneva where he had a meeting on Nov. 23 with President Assad of Syria . |
| 18 | But even so , as Ven escorted her inside to where he had a table booked , she felt him a most potent force . |
| 19 | He said a suggestion that he was a criminal overlord in Glasgow was nonsense and that he could not understand why he had a reputation as the godfather . |