Example sentences of "he had [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had no specific girlfriends . ’
2 In a letter dated 26 August 1988 the inspector stated that although he had no specific evidence against Mr Kempton or the company , it would be necessary to examine their tax affairs .
3 Mr Rawlins announced his intention to leave Sturge at some time in the future towards the end of last year although he had no specific plans for the next step in his career .
4 The Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze , said in Brussels that he had no specific details of the unrest but that any intervention by the security forces was highly regrettable .
5 He had no specific details of an offensive by Mr Jess .
6 He had no surviving children .
7 He had no burning ambition to climb to the upper reaches of management in those early days , however .
8 Although he had no dark hairs growing round his wrist-watch , Hugh Pargeter had , in his youth , the regular features and slightly curled hair of young men who model knitting patterns .
9 As a true Scottish non-conformer , he had no exaggerated respect for placemen in high office , and enjoyed jokes at the expense of the mighty .
10 He had no spare time for anything else , and laments the fact that he had so very little time for his studies .
11 At that point people were not giving much for his chances , but luckily he had no internal injuries .
12 He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients .
13 He had no short-term memory , which made for some strange dishes but it kept her safe from him .
14 graces could be an embarrassment , for he had no polite small-talk and did not pretend to any ; his visits to Windsor were an ordeal for guest and hosts alike , to him because he disliked formality and to his hosts because he was so difficult to entertain and because he did not mince words with the King .
15 Believe he could not , and at the same time he had no firm conviction that all was untrue .
16 He had no Scots upbringing either , since in 1924 his family moved to south Yorkshire , where he studied at the local elementary school and at Wath-on-Dearne Grammar School , before entering Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1939 .
17 In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him .
18 Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ?
19 He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges .
20 Fleming continued to experiment as a bacteriologist with his material , but he had no advanced training in chemistry , and his environment did not throw chemically expert colleagues in his way .
21 His desire to be always in absolute control made it impossible for him to seek the medical and psychological help he needed and he had no close friends to persuade him .
22 Among East Anglian property pundits , alarm over what Mr Lamont might be planning for the region 's property market turned to relief as it became clear he had no major upsets in store .
23 However , in Armagas the person dealing with the agent knew that he had no actual authority to enter the transaction in question .
24 He had no outstanding gifts , of intelligence , learning , or good looks , and was never employed for any important administrative , political , or diplomatic office .
25 It might be in order to lend three times the income of an applicant whose wife was also working , there were no children , a significant salary increase was likely and he had no outstanding hire purchase commitments , but not in less favourable circumstances .
26 For the next eighteen months , Austen Chamberlain worked behind the scenes to maintain the interests of his party , just as Law had done , but he had no personal sympathy for the diehards or their views , and he made no gestures of conciliation to them .
27 Dick really could n't make head or tail of the place and resorted to believing that he had no personal problems , and that the Centre had little to do with cures , which was true .
28 In 1911 Shinwell , after varied experience in a number of industries , became through the good offices of the highly influential Glasgow Trades Council , of which he was vice-chairman , a voluntary official of Wilson 's union , though he had no personal knowledge of seagoing or of the sea .
29 So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected .
30 In general , de Gaulle 's rapport with Allied publics was remarkably good , especially in view of the fact that he had no prior experience of either country , spoke at best a halting English , and had to overcome systematic attempts by the governments to influence press coverage against him .
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