Example sentences of "he had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Him had a dose of the screaming heebies . |
| 2 | Whoever killed him had a bucket of blood to wipe away . ’ |
| 3 | But Holly and eight hundred with him had a roof over their Kitchen , and there would be a roof over Hut 2 when the freezing night came . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He read widely in all spheres of learning and became inspired with the idea that he had a mission to introduce the learning of western Europe to his countrymen in Serbia . |
| 6 | Briggs felt he had a mission to bring this approach to the notice of his AI colleagues , who. he said , were ‘ either above looking at ancient approaches to the same problem , or … simply ignorant that such work has gone on ’ . |
| 7 | Schreber 's father , who ruled his household like a dictator and believed that he had a mission to reform educational principles , acquired a large following , especially in Germany , and was compared favourably by one of his biographers with Hitler . |
| 8 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |
| 9 | ‘ At his best , he was as great as Peter Sellers , although he had a humility that Sellers never aspired to , ’ Took now says . |
| 10 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 11 | He had a distaste for violence , but in his business it was a necessity . |
| 12 | It seemed that he had a foot planted firmly on both sides of the generation gap . |
| 13 | He had a premiére in Paris , and wanted Princess Stephanie of Monaco for his date . |
| 14 | and er , well what they were saying on bus cos he had a sleep just in front of us last night , somebody said we 're Park Row and they said oh he 's asleep in front there , well that was him you see , so I reckon he comes from there , see I mean , the rest must have just come in here or King 's Lynn , well if they fell out |
| 15 | He had a sleep |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had also warned them that the guy was physically strong , and that he had a kink for cutting his victims . |
| 18 | As to the so-called ‘ experimental ’ operations of ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ : he had a success rate that approached — and quite possibly attained — 100 per cent . |
| 19 | A year ago he had a heart by-pass which had to be re-done and for a while totally lost his sight because of a clot in the blood supply to the eyes . |
| 20 | Three years after giving all that up he had a heart attack . |
| 21 | I believe he had a heart attack . |
| 22 | In the last year of the nineteenth century the French president , Félix Faure was enjoying his mistress 's favours in a specially designed sex chair when he had a heart attack and died on the job . |
| 23 | Jim added : ‘ He had a heart of pure gold . ’ |
| 24 | He had a heart attack … ’ |
| 25 | He had a heart attack . |
| 26 | He had a heart attack . |
| 27 | Wycliffe prided himself on being reasonably fit , but by the time he was halfway up the hill he knew that he had a heart and lungs . |
| 28 | He had a heart attack on Friday evening and died yesterday in hospital . ’ |
| 29 | He had a heart attack when he died at fifty . |
| 30 | ‘ He went out to the … er … pub , and he had a heart attack and he died ! ’ |