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

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1 He had obligations to the universal episcopate which had to act in harmony for the unity of the church .
2 Shamlou gathered he had aspirations to be a cleric .
3 One afternoon the Governor summoned me to Government House and informed me that he had instructions to institute proceedings against Aung San for an alleged murder in the early days of the Japanese invasion of Burma , and instructed me to prepare the case to justify this to the country .
4 He insisted he had permission to be there — a story he repeated to police .
5 He had answers to none of these questions and no spirit left to force himself to think about them .
6 Teixeira 's contribution to the genre was first performed in 1728 , just after he had return to Portugal from Rome , and it reveals Italian influence in its polychorality ( it is scored for five ‘ choirs ’ of four voices each ) and the florid , operatic nature of the solo snippets .
7 Through Brooke and his own contacts , he had entry to the cream of Hollywood parties and the cream of Hollywood society .
8 Being Jahsaxa 's most esteemed security officer , he had access to many of her personal files ( including ones she did n't know about ) and enjoyed free-ranging consultation with the public network .
9 He had access to Hammad Haiba whose mother 's sister was Salah 's wife 's sister-in-law ; and with Salha on his side he could redouble the pressure : Hammad was Salha 's grandson .
10 Savory Milln should have been aware that Mr Ferriday would try and cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to , yet it had made no inquiries as to the source of the £13.5m or how Mr Ferriday had managed to meet his own underwriting obligations .
11 It should therefore have been aware of the danger that he would try to cover his liabilities from whatever funds he had access to ( Eagle 's funds ) , but that it made no inquiries about the source of the monies or how he had met his obligations .
12 He had access to portions of her mind she herself was losing .
13 So why should he require this additional radio , especially when he had access to — and was probably the only user of — the much superior radio in his radio-room ? ’
14 The photographer only had the opportunity to do it because it was a benefit and he had access to the models that he would n't normally have .
15 In the heyday of Napoleon 's conquests he had access to fossils from all over Europe and was thus in a position to make the first comprehensive study .
16 He had access to scores and opportunities of hearing orchestral excerpts in concert , but at the time of the publication of BT the only Wagnerian work he had seen performed remained Meistersinger .
17 I was scared because if what Quigley had said to Pikey was true and he really did n't know Mr Marr , how come he had access to his full name and date of birth ?
18 Er , I knew that er he had access to firearms .
19 Paul McGlinchey , the brother of former INLA chief of staff Dominic McGlinchey , has admitted he had access to police personnel files via a computer modem .
20 He had cause to be ; a number of the clergy who compiled the 1801 Returns saw the improving larger farmer as a mixed blessing , likely to be more interested in maximising his profits than in keeping prices reasonable , ‘ the cause of the dearness of Butcher 's meat , cheese , etc. etc … . it destroys the comforts of the lower class of society ’ .
21 Well if he had X to the seventh that would have given him seven X to the sixth
22 He had reason to be touchy about Nechaev .
23 Or perhaps he had reason to be content , since Franca had been , perhaps visibly , moved , or startled by his sudden gesture of kissing her hand , something which she could not remember his ever having done before .
24 Yet again he had reason to be grateful that no-one in Vienna argued with a uniform .
25 That it appears to this Committee that the Secretary ( Mr Huntingford ) has propagated reports injurious to the character of the Professor and that his conduct appears highly culpable in having spread such reports after he had reason to be satisfied that they were groundless .
26 Resolved that , from the report of the Committee consisting of the Earl of Morton , Chairman , & c this meeting is perfectly satisfied with the Character & Conduct of the Professor Mr Vial and is of opinion that the conduct of the Secretary Mr Huntingford is highly culpable in having propagated reports injurious to the Professor Mr Vial after he had reason to be satisfied the [ sic ] were groundless . ’
27 He had reason to be in that camp …
28 He had reason to be frightened .
29 He looked scared to death , and he had reason to be for he was doubly identified by both of us .
30 He had reason to be proud he thought , as he gazed through his car windscreen at the line of traffic ahead .
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