Example sentences of "he have a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a 25-year-old male with a couple of speeding convictions leaving the car on the street in a high-risk area can expect to pay only £424 per year , so long as he has a five-year no-claims bonus . |
| 2 | ‘ And I think that if he has a few problems at Liverpool at first , he 'll hang on and try and make things work . |
| 3 | He has a few swigs and then . |
| 4 | He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had . |
| 5 | For he has a few ideas of his own . |
| 6 | He has a few suggestions for those tempted to try aerial photography . |
| 7 | Even though the defendant does not regard the nature of his own conduct as being disorderly , he has a sufficient mens rea to satisfy the section by being aware that he is using offensive language , or kicking over dustbins or turning out the lights in the cinema , or whatever else may be alleged to constitute the disorderly behaviour . |
| 8 | She knew that he had a hundred pounds , probably more . |
| 9 | Whenever he thought of that first blind delicious sensation , as he had a hundred times that morning , he had to close his eyes . |
| 10 | He had a thousand metres of nylon fishing-line on the marlin rod lashed to the port stay , three hundred kilos breaking-strain . |
| 11 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 12 | So he had a thousand women |
| 13 | He had a dozen men on the other side of town waiting for him . |
| 14 | He had a few hours anyway . |
| 15 | The police would have to be told about Zoe 's murder tomorrow , but tonight he had a few hours of peace . |
| 16 | However , when one of the assembled men had suggested that they could have used more men , Springfield had assured them their numbers would be quite sufficient for the job in hand , adding enigmatically that he had a few aces up his sleeve which would reduce the odds against them . |
| 17 | Midway through 1906–07 Archie was deployed at right-back in the Palace line-ups , although he had a few outings on the right wing , and he played throughout our fabulous progress to the FA Cup quarter-finals . |
| 18 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 19 | He had a few contacts in the Metropolitan force . |
| 20 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 21 | He had a few enemies amongst the more militant dockers but he had many loyal friends too , and many had told Carrie that they would follow him without question . |
| 22 | He had a few minutes yet , to compose his missive to Estabrook . |
| 23 | Every year , he had a few sessions with a visiting American analyst and there were occasional visits to a local one . |
| 24 | He had a few weeks to bask in the glow of this last electoral achievement , weeks that were only a little marred by the unpleasantness of Cabinet changes and the difficulties of moving towards a decision on the application of the oil sanction against Italy . |
| 25 | He had a few drinks and fell asleep and when he woke up he was in bed and Beryl was lying beside him . |
| 26 | He said he had a few days ’ work for me , five hundred and expenses . |
| 27 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
| 28 | Afterwards he had a few words with Hob 's wife , the children cowering around her . |
| 29 | He had a few convictions for petty crimes when he was out of work but had got away with fines in the past . |
| 30 | He had a few animals , got a small catch-crop of grain , but probably lived mostly off government pensions , grants and subsidies to agriculture . |