Example sentences of "that he have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd that he 'd first spoken to her in English when he could n't possibly have known … |
| 2 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 3 | In this 1976 series he was still unsure of himself tactically , gave the impression that he had little plan of campaign thought out , and often seemed to be changing his bowling and field settings more on a whim than on a good tactical basis . |
| 4 | He is famed for his ‘ laid-back ’ attitude , his apparent unconcern about his actions both at the crease and at press conferences , and such an easy-going approach led many people to believe that he had little real commitment . |
| 5 | The fact that he had little confidence in his horse did not help . |
| 6 | One reason , no doubt , was that he had little tolerance for real pagan myths or for naïve mythicizers . |
| 7 | His quarrel with Luther meant that he had little influence in Germany , but there was something about his insistence on thrift , application , and hard work for its own sake that struck sympathetic chords in the Zurich temperament . |
| 8 | In November 1959 , Castro must simply have felt that he had little to lose by seeing what Moscow was prepared to offer . |
| 9 | After leaving the Institute , where he retained a small laboratory which he visited at weekends , Butler 's administrative duties were so heavy that he had little time for mycological research . |
| 10 | While Hurley remained preoccupied with inter-agency projects like Operation Goldenrod , Ganem soon made it clear to Coleman that he had little patience with Hurley 's intelligence operations . |
| 11 | He told himself that he had little to fear ; but he was sweating as they made their way into the city . |
| 12 | Through the haze of Bell 's which had been the weekend , it had become clear that he had little alternative . |
| 13 | And Lloyd found , in a milieu still heavily influenced by the Communist Party , that he had little difficulty in outselling the Morning Star when he took it on the streets . |
| 14 | Press reports suggested that he had little room for negotiation in that he could offer Saddam Hussein no relaxation of the requirement for immediate withdrawal and the unconditional acceptance of UN resolutions . |
| 15 | The fact is that he had much to do with the development of that car , that he worked hard , drove cleanly and finished steadily : those are the marks of a real champion rather than a flash in the pan . |
| 16 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 17 | This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry — and indeed he had . |
| 18 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
| 19 | They will be wholly ineffective for this purpose if the patient is incapable of understanding them , they are not explained to him and there is no good evidence ( apart from the patient 's signature ) that he had that understanding and fully appreciated the significance of signing it . |
| 20 | And that he had that house built , er , like er , before he got in it and it was paid , built and paid for like , you know and that . |
| 21 | He had the arrogance and the charisma of a Bob Stanford-Tuck or Doug Bader , but I will also add that he had that indefinable something that was an essential ingredient in an outstanding bomber pilot . |
| 22 | Somebody told me that he had that built . |
| 23 | Fa : During that week that he had that he was in absolute agony and night time seemed to affect him more than during the day . |
| 24 | Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake . |
| 25 | Mr Masters was quite clear that he had first seen the blue BMW late on the Saturday evening , ten days before , pointing out that , while you could n't exactly complain , it had made access to his own forecourt space a little difficult , or at least when there was already another car on the forecourt , which there mostly was , that being Mrs Masters 's runabout . |
| 26 | Fonda was able to say that he had first tried LSD a couple of years earlier , and had also been a spasmodic user of marijuana — in between more prolific bouts of drinking vodka or scotch — since 1962 when he was turned on by Jim Mitchum at the Carlton Towers Hotel , in London . |
| 27 | Maidstone explained that he had first come to Italy after the First World War . |
| 28 | Having twice refused on the grounds that he had first to win Tangier and Ceuta ( which he accomplished in 1084 ) , Yusuf finally turned his attention to Spain at Motamid 's third desperate request . |
| 29 | Wordsworth himself recalled in old age that he had first met Coleridge , together with Southey , and Edith and Sara Fricker , at ‘ a lodging in Bristol ’ . |
| 30 | Slowly it dawned on Alexander that the tension that he had first noticed was not of specific parts , as he had first presumed , but of himself as a whole being . |