Example sentences of "he had the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He yearned to reach London , was no less anxious than his uncle and his brother to reach the capital — and yet he had the curious feeling that time was not on his side . |
| 2 | He had the curious ability to erase , or at least pretend to erase , from his memory that which did not suit his idea of himself at the time . |
| 3 | In spite of this , sitting on his Empire chair beneath the window , head tilted to one side at an angle of acute concentration , he had the curious sensation that if he shifted his gaze from the little group mouthing in front of him his head might fall off . |
| 4 | He had the curious feeling that the whole house had fallen silent too , as though listening . |
| 5 | At any rate , Jerome would n't be there to upset this one , catch her in corners and smack her bottom like he had the Danish au pair . |
| 6 | Only he had the inside story . |
| 7 | Robert of Mortain was lucky , in that he had the substantial Roman site at Pevensey on which to build . |
| 8 | Then his aunt 's jewels disappeared , and he had the oddest sensation of wanting Charity to have done it . |
| 9 | Not that he had the faintest idea of the contents of the envelope he carried within the breast pocket of the jacket he declined to hand over to the stewardess . |
| 10 | He had the faintest intimation that Joanna despised him . |
| 11 | At the same time he had the clearest image in his mind of the three of them : Fred , Daisy , and himself , and it was a spectacle of nothing but pleasure . |
| 12 | He had the bogus Red Cross form which I had seen at Amsterdam on his lap . |
| 13 | You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot . |
| 14 | He might even pray earnestly to Saint Winifred to protect him , he had the innocent effrontery for it . |
| 15 | Had he stayed , there was every chance that he might have been forced eventually to join the Militia — a thing few Titfords would face with relish ; but most significant of all , perhaps — apart from his obvious inner resilience and entrepreneurial spirit — he had the singular advantage of having well-off relations to latch onto in London . |
| 16 | He had the singular good fortune not to die in the trenches , but the experience undermined his health severely for all that . |
| 17 | He had the hopeless look of a cornered animal to the sergeant . |
| 18 | He had the usual run of furtive sexual fumblings and persuaded three of his girlfriends ( whom he then held in contempt ) to go all the way . |
| 19 | Not only was the boy outnumbered in this predominantly female household — he had the additional problem of having to contend with a rather cumbersome and unusual first Christian name : Marwood James Henry Titford had presumably been named as such by way of homage to the vicar of Curry Rivel , the Rev. Charles Marwood Speke Mules . |
| 20 | He had the additional fortune that the Belfast Telegraph , the daily newspaper with the largest circulation in Ulster , was strongly pro-government and anti-Ulster majority . |
| 21 | He had the occasional run of poor form , but when the runs came they came thick , fast and gloriously . |
| 22 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 23 | Eventually , as the winter darkness descended , the fighting ceased , both sides boasting of a victory , though as Argyll re-occupied Sheriffmuir the following morning he had the better claim to have won . |
| 24 | Following Howe 's personal statement on Nov. 13 , Heseltine on the following day abandoned his earlier position that he would not stand against Thatcher , claiming that he was best placed to win back former Conservative voters , that he had the better prospect of leading the Conservative Party to a fourth successive general election victory and so of preventing " the ultimate catastrophe of a Labour victory in a general election " , and that he had already received the committed support of 100 MPs . |
| 25 | By the time he was three years old , he had the scabbiest knees in the nursery from all the scrapes he got himself into . |
| 26 | He had the absurd conviction that his new boss would look after him , somehow explain things and make them right . |
| 27 | He went on , more to her father now than to her , in his light drawling voice she had to listen to in church every Sunday of her life telling them all what was what because he had the God-given power to do so and they had to listen and obey . |
| 28 | When Count Philip of Flanders suspected that his wife had committed adultery with Gautier de Fontaines he had the young man killed by hanging him upside down in a cess-pit . |
| 29 | He had the intrusive effect on the class predicted by AT3 in our initial discussion . |
| 30 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |