Example sentences of "he had [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1236 he had both the honour of carrying the sceptre at the queen 's coronation , and the disgrace of imprisonment through a court cabal . |
| 2 | Then he had both the work and the company . |
| 3 | The firmness of the French reaction was probably inevitable , given the circumstances , but it was also highly dangerous for it meant that if and when Bismarck sought to provoke France he knew that he had exactly the cause he needed . |
| 4 | He was young and quick , he had surely the advantage provided he kept room to recoil out of range . |
| 5 | Yet he was not at this stage prepared to risk open war on their behalf ; although he disliked the peace of 1328 he had neither the resources nor the general political support for a renewal of the Scottish war . |
| 6 | Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them . |
| 7 | He had neither the will nor the courage to stir . |
| 8 | He had neither the patience nor method to understand properly how they worked and he would not bow to any instruction other than his own perusal of certain manuals and textbooks . |
| 9 | He had neither the fuel nor the skill to match the rotational speed of the vehicle . |
| 10 | He had neither the background nor the inclination for life in those institutions whose products he so roundly despised . |
| 11 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 12 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 13 | In Aden Nizan had learned a simple and never-to-be-forgotten lesson : that to live one 's life , as he had since the age of twelve , with the sole objective of not being a loser was an inadequate response , since it failed to take account of the political and social structures which determined the real significance of such a project . |
| 14 | Living in close proximity in such a small cottage may have caused difficulties ; one gathers that Coleridge 's domestic arrangements included benevolent toleration of mice , whom he had not the heart to kill . |
| 15 | Quinn 's brow furrowed ; he had not checked the stones himself — he had not the skill to tell real diamonds from good forgeries — but now prayed no one had been foolish enough to insert a proportion of paste among the gems . |
| 16 | The manuscript had just been discovered in the uncatalogued recesses of the British Museum ; it was exciting work , said the doctor , but difficult : the manuscript was badly damaged and as he had not the money to go to London he was having to work from a smudged xerox copy . |
| 17 | He had not the room , he pleaded . |
| 18 | The trouble for Rubberneck , he lived with a fanatic , he had not the gift . |
| 19 | And he knew he had not the justification of genius . |
| 20 | He tried to fight it , but he had not the strength . |
| 21 | Tug found it repulsive , but he had not the energy to resist and he let Doyle lead him upstairs as a father leads a child . |
| 22 | He had not the stomach , literally , to wax serious about such things today . |
| 23 | As soon as he saw their mood he made no attempt to join or follow ; and the people , seeing he had not the cut of a government man , passed him by . |
| 24 | After all , he had just the man on his staff . |
| 25 | erm He had just the qualities that he advocated . |
| 26 | He had n't the heart , like he had before . ’ |
| 27 | He had n't the heart to say he did n't want to be his lordship 's servant or , indeed , anyone 's servant . |
| 28 | One o'clock in Piazza dei Partigiani after a stressful morning at work was very different from eleven o'clock the night before after making love , but Ellen was bubbling with such enthusiasm that he had n't the heart to voice his reservations . |
| 29 | The man from the Midland Bank said he had n't the kind of money required . |
| 30 | Farrel mimicked Lowell 's pedantic voice inside his head , but he had n't the guts to initiate a confrontation . |