Example sentences of "he had [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And but that he had many things to occupy his mind , and she no less , I think something would have come of it before now . ’ |
| 2 | He had many things to ponder in his heart . |
| 3 | As chief adviser to Louis VI in the last decade of his reign , and as Louis VII 's most trusted minister until his death in 1152 , he had many opportunities to impress his theories on princes and lords who would not dare to scoff . |
| 4 | Even though I knew I would soon lose him , he had such power to make me happy that I was in heaven listening to him . |
| 5 | And he had six people to work with who would n't waste time on stupid questions about the baby 's emotional welfare , who saw as clearly as he did the greater fascination in the sheaves of data they had already collected on the child since his birth . |
| 6 | Asked once what he would do if he knew he had six months to live , he replied : ‘ I 'd type faster . ’ |
| 7 | Two sons aged fifteen and four , and a daughter of one year old , were mentioned in the 1871 census , but A. W. Humphrey ( see below ) says he had five children to support . |
| 8 | Have + direct object + to can also evoke the idea of " having present for the purpose of " : ( 7a ) He had four examiners to ask him all sorts of questions . |
| 9 | He had better things to do than argue the toss . |
| 10 | You would think he had better things to do with his time . |
| 11 | Indeed , he had good cause to benefit from his death , yet , Corbett reasoned , he was only one among many . |
| 12 | The bill , which makes it an offence to carry a knife and puts the onus on the carrier to prove he had good reason to carry the knife , will have its third reading on Friday and could now become law before summer after the Scottish Office accepted a Labour amendment that the act should come into force on the day it is passed rather than at the end of a two month period . |
| 13 | While his involvement in the affairs of the West Bank , in co-operation with the PLO or with Israel , could prevent things boiling over , he had good reason to remain involved . |
| 14 | He had good reason to look apprehensive , Dexter thought . |
| 15 | Every time we arranged to come to London he would decide he had other things to do . |
| 16 | For now , he had other things to think about . |
| 17 | Whether it was because he had other fish to fry is unrecorded , but Hartlepool 's chippies had made the law courts before . |
| 18 | Party Politics , who stands at 18 hands , has had a history of wind problems and before and after last year 's National he had two operations to improve his breathing . |
| 19 | He had two operations to repair torn ligaments in his left knee and was sidelined for 18 months during his spell with Italian club Pisa . |
| 20 | And McBrady he had two chances to go and |
| 21 | Power was conferred upon the chief officer of police to impose conditions on the holding of public processions where he had reasonable grounds to believe that serious public disorder was likely to ensue from the holding of a procession . |
| 22 | This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry — and indeed he had . |
| 23 | In biology he had much observation to support him but in ‘ physics ’ he had no experimental evidence worth mentioning . |
| 24 | He had ample opportunity to change the time of Mr Lamont 's alleged visit and he could have avoided mentioning that a Gold card was used . |
| 25 | The Development Corporation of Harlow New Town made a flat available , but unfortunately he had little opportunity to make his mark because of recurrent illness and eventually resigned his post in September 1958 . |
| 26 | He had little time to see them , to know them ; like others ' children , they were left to a nurse and Mrs Gracie . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had inadequate funds to go abroad but a relative advanced him some money and off he went in 1935 . |
| 29 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 30 | But after they had finished eating ( which seemed to the travellers to take for ever ) , Goibniu sent the other giants out of the room , because he had important business to discuss . |