Example sentences of "he had this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He collected a group of protective converts , and he had this knack of making even the most reasonable request look like persecution . |
| 2 | He had this trick and he had a blow torch and he burned off all this blokes hair . |
| 3 | He was sitting down then all of sudden he had this bottle of scotch and he told bring some whisky down . |
| 4 | And he had this theatre the panopticon and er |
| 5 | On the rare nights that he was not in The Bar Boy would lay out all these papers in a circle on the floor around his bed ( he had this affectation of keeping his bed , a mattress on the floor , in the centre of his small but almost empty room ) . |
| 6 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 7 | I first knew it unmistakably when Herr Sussmeyer replied to my first letter , saying he had this quest for pubic hairs because he loved and respected women so much . |
| 8 | And he had this kind of |
| 9 | He had this suitcase . |
| 10 | He had this way of drawing her to him and she always seemed to go . |
| 11 | Then he had this roll of notes . |
| 12 | I had this other dream once , of me , and there 's this girl I used to like , right , and , and the weird thing was that in , in our group of churches , you used to sort of like , got one guy who 's , more senior , and erm , he had this daughter and my mum sort of fancied me marrying this famous preacher 's daughter , you see , and I took her out a few times , erm |
| 13 | While he had this fungus my Corydoras julli cleaned him as he ‘ laid back and relaxed ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ David did very , very well to get through the Turkey game the way he did and if you were not aware that he had this problem with his knee , you would n't have known it was there . |
| 15 | I told my husband that he had this problem . |
| 16 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 17 | He had this conviction that the world was made up of women who were successful and women who were failures — in other words , dressed up as men . |
| 18 | He had this book , see , A Complete History of the World 's Art . |
| 19 | No I thought , cos I , I remember reading erm I think it 's her father who owns one of the bookshops in Woodbridge and he had this book on display , you know he sort of erm advertised it if you like and it 's , it 's properly published and everything but he had it as a a book available in his store and there was an advert in the Anglian about it , and I remember reading that she said er that he said er cos it was his daughter who had the child , that it totally knocked them for six . |
| 20 | You do n't really know how he had this information . |
| 21 | One of my favourite presidents , Theodore Roosevelt , president from the early part of the twentieth century and known as the damned cowboy erm you might be interested to know how people become president erm Theodore Roosevelt was an arch imperialist and got very excited about the er war with Spain er America had a s little brief war with Spain at the end of the nineteenth century erm over the possession of Cuba , and erm in eighteen ninety eight , and this aroused great patriotic feelings in all red blooded Americans and especially in Theodore Roosevelt and er er Roosevelt formed his own company of cavalry called the Rough Riders and erm Roosevelt wore glasses and was asthmatic but he had this group called the Rough Riders , sort of early kind of Clint Eastwood stuff , and erm anyway he g he was engaged in the war with Spain er and there was one wonderful moment in the war Spain in which the Spaniards were at the top of a hill called the San Juan hill er and er Teddy , as he was known , of course he gave his name to the teddy bear , did you know that did you ? |
| 22 | I had a vague recollection somebody said he had this pet shop at Blagden or som not Blagden er |
| 23 | When asked by his closest advisers why he had this habit , he replied : With this income or that estate , … |
| 24 | ‘ When I was talking to him , he had this habit of looking over my head and I wondered whether what I was saying was going in , but he was digesting it and seeing how he could turn it round to his way of doing things . |
| 25 | The burgess might have no land at all in the fields ; but he had this right to graze his cattle after Lammas over any man 's lands , freely and wherever he liked . |
| 26 | He had this load of dead-weights working for him , old lasses that should have been given the boot years ago . |
| 27 | See , cos he had this lead horse you horses jumped off . |
| 28 | and he had this handle , a and er they were saying , we 'll need to get ourself a handle , |
| 29 | He had this boat called Stormy Petrel and he was living on it . |
| 30 | ‘ He had this feeling of danger , ’ said Hardy more than once , ‘ on and off the stage . |