Example sentences of "he had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who did know him had little idea that he was a dangerous psychotic , who nurtured a deep hatred for his parents . |
| 2 | Sir Alf Ramsey was n't popular with many ( it is n't a manager 's job to be popular ) but every player who played for him had enormous respect and liking for him . |
| 3 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |
| 4 | Since he had outstanding gifts of tact and diplomacy and great skill as an administrator — and a delightful pawky sense of humour — he had many tasks added to his departmental load , including : chairman of the Scottish Health Services Council ( 1954-59 ) , Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Edinburgh ( 1955-57 ) , chairman of the Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine ( 1966-71 ) , and Curator of Patronage of the university . |
| 5 | I do n't think he had many friends here , certainly none that would have lasted after he took his diploma . |
| 6 | At Oxford he had many friends in religious and artistic circles , chief among them Robert Bridges [ q.v. ] , his trusted confidant and poetic sounding-board for the rest of his life , as well as his first editor , who put his poems before the world . |
| 7 | ‘ He had many friends , ’ she said softly . |
| 8 | Flavius Josephus made a diligent search for references to Jews in Greek literature when he compiled his contra Apionem ; and no doubt he had many predecessors in this hunt . |
| 9 | He had many contacts in Germany . |
| 10 | Outside chemistry he had many interests . |
| 11 | It is precisely because he had many titles that we did not see agree , he and I. Voila . ’ |
| 12 | He had many things to ponder in his heart . |
| 13 | And but that he had many things to occupy his mind , and she no less , I think something would have come of it before now . ’ |
| 14 | And he had many enemies there . |
| 15 | I do n't know who killed him , but he had many enemies in Scotland . |
| 16 | He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes . |
| 17 | He had intravenous lines in his arms ; he had many blood tests drawn ; he had a tracheotomy tube — in other words a breathing tube — attached into his neck , and all these things must be somewhat uncomfortable . |
| 18 | It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House . |
| 19 | It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival . |
| 20 | Prior to that he had many years ' experience in the trade , as group sales director of Associated Book Publishers and as group marketing director until 1989 of Random House UK . |
| 21 | In fact he never visited England where he had many daughters ; there was much delegation . |
| 22 | While Miller seemed chiefly to glean knowledge on the cultivation of flowers and vegetables from Holland , he turned to Italy for information on fruit culture and here again he had many correspondents . |
| 23 | While waiting , I asked if he had many riverside cases . |
| 24 | With a slash of knife , the hospital , the prison — he had many names for the school where he was both patient and prisoner but never a pupil — comes slithering into his mind . |
| 25 | He had many books . |
| 26 | " Now El-ahrairah was among the animals in those days and he had many wives . |
| 27 | As chief adviser to Louis VI in the last decade of his reign , and as Louis VII 's most trusted minister until his death in 1152 , he had many opportunities to impress his theories on princes and lords who would not dare to scoff . |
| 28 | He said that as a boy at school he had such experiences and wondered whether they were like Michael 's . |
| 29 | When Cardinal Spellman was presiding , he had such difficulty making himself understood that he had to have someone speak for him . |
| 30 | A year later the student can not conceive why he had such difficulty and suspicion about the nature of vectors . |