Example sentences of "he had a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A girl from one of the other teams — for all of us had assembled by now — asked him for the time and briefly discussed the weather with him and when , after about 15 minutes , he struck off purposefully around a nearby playing field , he had a tail of 14 people — the entire membership of all four spy teams — determined not to lose their quarry . |
| 2 | He had a distaste for violence , but in his business it was a necessity . |
| 3 | He had a premiére in Paris , and wanted Princess Stephanie of Monaco for his date . |
| 4 | He had a wealth of stories she had loved to listen to , and in return had agreed to help him begin a proper catalogue of his collection . |
| 5 | He had also warned them that the guy was physically strong , and that he had a kink for cutting his victims . |
| 6 | Jim added : ‘ He had a heart of pure gold . ’ |
| 7 | He had a story of engine trouble to explain his own unauthorised landing , and we had to let him go . |
| 8 | Not that John-William was particularly opposed to revolution if he thought he had a chance of winning . |
| 9 | He had a photographer with him and was from a daily newspaper . |
| 10 | The axillary temperature was 37.3°C and he had a tachycardia of 110 beats/min . |
| 11 | Whatever may be the effect of the Practice Direction read against the word of the statute the present case was clearly one where the judge , if he had a discretion about the matter at all , should have allowed the convictions to be put to the witness . |
| 12 | The judge ruled that the whole operation including the obtaining of fingerprints on the receipts had to be considered as a whole , and , since the evidence at the shop had admittedly been obtained from the appellants by a trick after the offences charged had been committed , he had a discretion at common law to exclude the challenged evidence if its admission would prejudice a fair trial . |
| 13 | They agreed that he had a discretion under the statute whether or not to do so but said that he was not justified in refusing if the result was to frustrate the policy of the Act of Parliament . |
| 14 | So he had a go at making some grown-up movies , such as The Color Purple and Always — films dealing with heavy subjects such as relationships , conflict and bereavement . |
| 15 | and he had a go at me , and I like that then she hit me . |
| 16 | He had a genius for explaining a work of art in a very few words . |
| 17 | He had a genius for staging that was absolutely simple ; and he knew music — ballet , the symphonic repertoire — as well as any conductor . |
| 18 | He had a grip on himself . |
| 19 | He had a strip of bandage tied around his head , a small dot of blood showing romantically above the right eye . |
| 20 | Lewis thought he had a guarantee of a title shot against the winner of the Bowe-Evander Holyfield fight earlier this month . |
| 21 | He had a pile on his desk which he was working systematically through ; reports from agents , neatly docketed and summarized by Nikos , offensive memoranda from the Finance Department , irrelevant offerings from Personnel and aggrieved submissions from the Khedive , the Kadi , the Mufti and all the others who considered that the Mamur Zapt was exceeding his powers . |
| 22 | He had a pile of comics there which he read until it was too dark to see . |
| 23 | He had a pile of books , two or three open , and a large loose-leaf notebook at his table in a corner of the booth . |
| 24 | Old Rex , I see he had a pile of fifties there . |
| 25 | On his right hand he had a pile in black and white of various comics : Horror Gothic ; The Torturer ; The Monthly Guide to the Underground . |
| 26 | Two of the Stewards , Lord Wolverton and Major Eustace Loder , interviewed the jockeys concerned in the finish ; the third , Lord Rosebery , did not take part in the adjudication as he had a runner in the race . |
| 27 | He returned to England on Edouard 's new plane with fifteen excellent Jack Yeats oils ; Edouard returned secure in the knowledge that he had a winner for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , the prime race in the French racing calendar and the one he had set his heart on winning . |
| 28 | He had a blackboard on each wall with only tiny windows in between to let in the light . |
| 29 | He had a retinue of three or four young researchers and kept a full domestic staff , entertaining lavishly . |
| 30 | He had a thatch of black hair and wide eyes , so dark blue they were changing colour already . |