Example sentences of "he had one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had one operation in 1989 , but has now waited three-and-a-half years for the promised follow-up surgery .
2 He had One Man shows at many London galleries including the Leicester Galleries and the Belgrave and in Manchester , Dublin , New York , Montreal and Winnipeg .
3 He was a tall , red-haired man , according to the descriptions he had one shoulder higher than the other , but that did n't seem to prevent him being attractive to women .
4 He had one foot in the old camp and one foot in the new , and , incidentally , became Nicholson 's neighbour when Jack struck gold and bought a big house .
5 He had one session with the patient .
6 Almost nothing is known of his family , childhood , or early education except that his father was private messenger to George IV and William IV , and that he had one sister and two brothers .
7 Apart from his brother , he had one sister , one half-brother , and two half-sisters .
8 He had one dose of diphtheria vaccine during military service in 1970 .
9 He had one fight in 1984 and was knocked down for the first time in his career .
10 Two terrorists were dead and he had one prisoner .
11 If he had one trait of potential consequence it was his fondness for France , which led him to encourage efforts to ally with that country , but the international situation made these futile during his lifetime .
12 Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing .
13 Now he had one peculiarity when he was a-ploughin' : he had to have his pipe going before he could start .
14 He had one daughter , Elizabeth , by his first wife , and married secondly ( after 1859 ) a widow , Hannah White , by whom he had no children .
15 He had one daughter from his first marriage .
16 He married first in early 1600 Catherine , daughter of William Killegrew of Hanworth , Middlesex , by whom he had one daughter and four sons , including Thomas and Henry ; secondly Mary ( died 1679 ) , daughter of Edmund Barber of Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk , and widow of Thomas Newton of Edgefield , Norfolk , by whom he had a son and a daughter .
17 He had one daughter .
18 He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone .
19 It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father .
20 He had one child , a daughter .
21 He had one child , a daughter , who had a Jersey-based interior-decorating business .
22 Abdulrahman was a member of a lineage which had a reputation for learning , and hence was vulnerable to arguments that his children ( he had one son and six daughters ) should go to school .
23 He married , first , in 1677 , Gertrude , daughter of William Morice , Presbyterian MP , who died in 1679 ; and second , in 1691 , Gwen , daughter of Sir Robert Williams , baronet , of Penrhyn , Cornwall , by whom he had one son and three daughters .
24 In 1545 he married Mabel , daughter of Mark Digneley of Wolverton in the Isle of Wight , by whom he had no children , and in 1551 Margaret , daughter of Ralph Daniell of Swaffham , Norfolk , by whom he had one son , ( Sir ) George [ q.v. ] , and two daughters ; the elder , Elizabeth , married Richard Polsted , Wolley , and in 1597 Lord Keeper Sir Thomas Egerton ( later Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley ) .
25 He had one son , also called Roger , whom we knew as Stapleton .
26 But Coleridge , who knew him well , saw him as a happy man , because he had one aim in life :
27 He had one photograph , from Shaun 's wedding , and the photograph 's arrival had been the first that he 'd known about any of it .
28 The Chancellor of the Exchequer , Nigel Lawson , said he had one weapon with which to beat inflation : the interest rate .
29 He had one side of him , in those days , which suspected modern science because of its part in the process of industrialization , and its philistine attitude , as he supposed , to literature .
30 He had one hand in the pocket of a baggy jacket .
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