Example sentences of "he had [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Though of course there was also that long leave he had towards the end of the war . ’ |
| 2 | and he had over a thousand , one hundred a month |
| 3 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 4 | He had about a pound on him , in small change , which would buy no more than a chocolate bar and a couple of packets of crisps . |
| 5 | He had about a dozen lorries on the road , and machines er working the roads there , all they were working for nothing for him , these lads and he 'd come along and before Christmas he 'd stop a couple of them , just before Christmas , he used to do that every year . |
| 6 | Armed with illustrations , specifications and his own ideas about his target market , plus knowledge of any built-in prejudices he had about the kind of media he preferred — TV , newspapers , posters , et cetera — plus of course the size of the budget he was prepared to allocate , she would be able to report with the least possible delay to Sebastian Grantham . |
| 7 | And then when you dredged across again cos you used t you always went er , you always had er er say every foot he had with a piece of spunyarn in the wire |
| 8 | On record there is the prolonged correspondence he had with the Postmaster-General ( PMG ) from 1908 onwards . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions he had with the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States during his recent visit on United Kingdom relations with the members of the CIS . |
| 10 | James Weenes , in a conversation he had with the wife of a London weaver in September 1690 , expressed his opinion that William was " a Dutch Dogg and an Usurper " , who " like a Villain came and took the Crowne from the head of his Father " , and also that " the nobility was a parcel of Rogues and all of them lived as high as Kings . |
| 11 | And he talks of the , and plainly in that erm sort of mystical experience that he had with the Whiteheads , he did in , as it were , come to realize for the first time that there was in himself this desire to lead a life erm inspired by love and guided by knowledge , and to see others leading it . |
| 12 | In the following year he won the 100 yards AAA title ; he had for a while reigned as the British number one high jumper . |
| 13 | To Miss D'Arcy he was Colonel Hope ; to Mary he had for a moment been Augustus ; to his new self , John alone ; with Joanna he had no name and experienced the inscrutable animal comfort of brief blank joy . |
| 14 | I do believe , however , that he proceeded in considerable apprehension in his dealings with the lady ; in fact , that he was plainly frightened of her because of her quick temper and also because he had for a number of reasons formed a most favourable view of her judgement . |
| 15 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 16 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 17 | For some reason , no one knew why , he had for the last four months taken to sleeping in the south porch . |
| 18 | Hoving proved his own worst enemy , and eventually his taste for the tinsel and show of the art world overtook whatever feeling he had for the art itself , and he left the museum after his cherished Arts Communication Center ( to be funded by Walter Annenberg , with Hoving as its head ) , a nebulous film-studio-cum-information centre to be built in gallery space reserved for the European decorative arts department , was dissolved after much local criticism . |
| 19 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 20 | He had written for the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ on the subject during the seasons of 1933/4/5 , then in 1937 he began writing for the ‘ Glasgow Herald ’ — not reporting on county cricket as he had for the ‘ Guardian ’ but instead turning his impeccable knowledge of the game to the study of the nature of the game itself . |
| 21 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 22 | He arrived in a dark suit and a black shirt buttoned down over his dog collar and kept his hands folded so that nobody could see if he had on a ring at all , let alone one like a winegum . |
| 23 | He had on a three-quarter-length crombie with a velvet collar , a dark-blue suit with the faintest of pin-stripes and a snowy linen shirt . |
| 24 | He was dressed Yek style in a loose tunic and breeches , and he had on a surcoat which was stiff with gold embroidery . |
| 25 | Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor . |
| 26 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 27 | A DESPERATE businessman saved his company from bankruptcy by gambling every penny he had on the spin of a wheel . |
| 28 | On August 14 , John Allison , considering the short hangar time he had on the aircraft , flew the Corsair in a beautiful aerobatic routine , and the following day he flew across to Coventry Airshow , Warks , to display the aircraft at the RAFA Airshow there . |
| 29 | He had on the desk the photographs that showed Harry and his contact on the grass and the pavement . |
| 30 | Hazel ; looking at them , felt almost as insecure as he had on the river bank . |