Example sentences of "he had [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all very well for Bragg to instruct him to go the rounds of prostitutes ' haunts , but he had precious little idea of how to go about it . |
| 2 | And he had even more reason to now . |
| 3 | Coy about his age , but we reckon it 's 63 , he had rather more success at the veteran 's Wimbledon last year , winning a first round match in two hours 38 minutes . |
| 4 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |
| 5 | Then he phoned , he had just this minute phoned , to ask her what she thought of Jay . |
| 6 | When The Chameleons split , Fielding went from revered admiration ( especially in the United States ) to a council flat in Middleton where he had just enough money to get by . |
| 7 | Marlene had stolen his jacket when he went to the loo , he had just enough money in his trousers to pay for the meal . |
| 8 | He had just enough energy to plan an escape . |
| 9 | But he had just enough quality not to blame others for his guilt . |
| 10 | They asked him how he proposed to work with Pilger and , to his surprise , told him that he had far more power than Pilger had led him to believe . |
| 11 | And he would probably rather enjoy looking after a woman , even one he had as little time for as her . |
| 12 | He had as much right to be out walking as I had . ’ |
| 13 | He had this little stylophone with him and played both parts , because ‘ Space Oddity ’ was originally written as a duet for him and Hutch who was his partner in Feathers , the mixed media group , and when David split with Hermione , he and Hutch were working as a duet . |
| 14 | There used to be a programme that introduced new records on the radio , and my father was sailing somewhere and he had this little transistor all primed up , and he said proudly to his friend , ‘ This is my sons ’ record' and at that moment a wave hit the boat and the radio went overboard . |
| 15 | He had very little experience of dealing with situations like this . |
| 16 | He had very little ability , but immense energy . |
| 17 | He had very little response to that memo you sent out the other week , I 've taken no phone calls whatsoever |
| 18 | Against the mighty Saladin he had very little chance . |
| 19 | He had very little idea of how the baby 's age could have been estimated . |
| 20 | But as far as the others were concerned he had n't a clue , and , rack his brains as he might , he had very little idea how he could find out . |
| 21 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 22 | I mean in in the midweek game against us he had very little play and then he produced one ball that got them an equalizer and I suppose that 's what Frank would look for now . |
| 23 | Unlike Leonard , he had very little interest in the synagogue and broke from its traditions much more decisively , finding Leonard 's continuance somewhat irritating . |
| 24 | He knew he had very little time before the performance began . |
| 25 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 26 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 27 | ‘ The woman kind , ’ the fellow replied sardonically , now realising he had very little information to give this snooping coroner . |
| 28 | What he was asking her to do required a degree of trust that he had too little time to earn . |
| 29 | For a boy who only worked part-time in a supermarket he had too much money , and this was another source of innuendo from Mrs Frizzell . |
| 30 | What REALLY pissed me off though was Girly Perm Keegan saying he could understand Leeds selling Le Turd because ‘ he had too much class for them to handle ’ . |