Example sentences of "he had an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had an almighty air of calm and assurance about him . |
| 2 | There he had an official residence , but he continued to run his Whitechapel nursery , with another in London Fields . |
| 3 | He had an innocent manner about him too , and he had made her feel at ease despite her natural reserve . |
| 4 | Between the date of Meehan 's conviction and his appeal a month later , Nicky told me , he had an astonishing piece of luck in that there had come into his possession a tape-recording of an interview with Griffiths taken some time previously for a programme the BBC had made at Gartree prison . |
| 5 | In 1809 he had an open-air congregation of 1500 , more than the entire population of the town . |
| 6 | He had an impish look about him , and the most beguiling manner , a combination which never failed to capture the hearts of all who came into contact with him . |
| 7 | Geoff Appleyard was in the MTB — he had an injured leg from a previous raid — when he heard the landing party ambush some seven Germans in a patrol before the raiders were in turn ambushed by a larger force . |
| 8 | He had an awful premonition he would always remember her like this — that he 'd never recall her cheerful buoyancy , her glowing smile when she had teased him . |
| 9 | He had an uncharacteristic fall from grace in his match against Connell . |
| 10 | He had an impeccable sense of rhythm , not in the metronomic , military sense of the term but in his feel for the real inner rhythm of the music he was conducting . |
| 11 | He had an impeccable record of anti-Turkish activity , from the time he had enlisted in Major Mihaljević 's forces at the age of twenty , fighting with the hajduks after the Austrian desertion in 1791 , and serving as an officer in the Serbian militia which fought off Pazvantoglu 's attack in 1797 . |
| 12 | He had an early success with ‘ Jail Birds ’ , while other favourites were ‘ The Football Match ’ , starring Harry Weldon as Stiffy the goalkeeper , and ‘ Karno 's Komics ’ . |
| 13 | His father died suddenly when he was only 12 years of age and he had an early baptism of public life , being prominent in Scottish affairs while still in his teens . |
| 14 | John Williams who became a colliery manager in 1934 , and later manager of the Banwen colliery under the National Coal Board , described how as a young man he had an early glimpse of one kind of persuasion : |
| 15 | He had an early appointment the next day . |
| 16 | She knew he had an early appointment with one of his lawyers and hoped that that was what was distancing him from her this morning . |
| 17 | As a place to observe what the DEA was up to in Nicosia , Coleman found the Eurame Trading Company ideal , but from his very first day on the job , he had an uncomfortable feeling that the same might be true for the opposition . |
| 18 | He had an unrivalled knowledge of Greek and Greek theology , and the Heavenly Hierarchy contained much on the orders of angels . |
| 19 | Although he had an unrivalled ability to motivate players , Docherty 's approach often bordered on theatre of cruelty . |
| 20 | He had an impressive set of movements which he said were excellent for dealing with charging horsemen . |
| 21 | He had an extra Archer however , grace of the Telegraph . |
| 22 | If he had an upset stomach , it was not something he had eaten , indigestion , but the first sign of a rumbling ulcer . |
| 23 | After a time I said , ‘ You do n't think that if he had an outside person looking after him , who he did n't mind telling him what to do because it was their job … ‘ |
| 24 | He had an unshaven anvil chin , glittering eyes and a blonde-haired schoolteacher whose name was Maya . |
| 25 | Furthermore , he had an acute sense of deviation from the norm in any society . |
| 26 | Even at that hour he had an alert look , as aura of controlled energy . |
| 27 | He never missed an opportunity to criticise the new ruck/maul laws and he had an absolute right to do so — because it is he who has found ways to minimise their dreadful effect , because he was never one of those coaches who sought refuge under the old laws , and because he is the finest coach in the world by results , demeanour and inspiration . |
| 28 | He had an absolute belief in the Bible as interpreted by the early Fathers , rather than by the traditions of the medieval Church . |
| 29 | I could see that he would not enter that field by long hours of practice , as he had an impulsive nature . |
| 30 | He had an appalling memory for faces , although he did remember cars . |