Example sentences of "he had a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a barrow boy at heart , he had a yen for the finer things in life . |
| 2 | I have formally to decline such offers and shame on the correspondent who said that he had a pair of longjohns that flashed as he took them off and I was welcome to observe the spectacle at any time . |
| 3 | There was more decoration on his cap than on the average gypsy caravan , and he had a pair of samurai swords strung criss-cross on his back . |
| 4 | Then , course then they used to hav when the man stood in green , I knew a fella named which we was talking about a little while ago and he had a pair of lady 's stockings which he used to put over his shoes to stop the grain going in and some of these people in the and , they used to have erm , like er string soles with like calico boots and they used to tie them on tight . |
| 5 | John Thrupp has always had problems getting shoes to fit , so he had a pair of size twenty-ones specially made by a master craftsman . |
| 6 | But , he was horri the guy that was doing me did n't know he had a pair of a like off er yeah . |
| 7 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 8 | He had a means of doing this since she was at the time in danger of being disbarred after allegations that she had defrauded a Catholic charity active in Africa . |
| 9 | When he dozed again , and the memories returned , he did n't fight them , knowing he had a means of scouring them from his system once he got back to England . |
| 10 | He had a series of Sunday shows down there called the Bowie Show Boat and this was the second one . |
| 11 | A major company signed him up , and he had a series of top ten hits while building a serious reputation . |
| 12 | She accompanied him in the ambulance to Hollywood Memorial Hospital and stayed at his bedside in the intensive care unit as he had a series of brain scans . |
| 13 | He had a 4in scar on his left leg as a result of the knee-capping and a two-inch scar on his right wrist . |
| 14 | He had a staff , long and slender , to aid his unsteady feet , and Luch and Ranald never left him . |