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

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1 Riven caught Bicker 's eye as he had that afternoon , and the dark man threw him a rueful grin .
2 But the chapter , having no protector after God unless it be the Roman pontiff , asserted that for a certainty unless he had that church demolished the metropolitical dignity would , for the most part , be transferred to it .
3 He had that sense of fact which he considered to be more useful ‘ than nine-tenths of the most pretentious critical journalism ’ .
4 Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it .
5 I can see why he had that heart attack .
6 He had that knock on his head , I do n't think he 's recovered from that yet . ’
7 He had Peter , he had that Peter who 's
8 But then he saw a servant he had that day badly mutilated , also pointing .
9 He clambered up and intercepted her at the kitchen door , enfolding her and drawing her in to his body so that his warmth flowed through to her , just as he had that day when he 'd found her on the beach , lost and afraid ; like him , a victim of the past .
10 He felt he had said them before , and thought he could sense death sniffing at his shoulder , as he had that day on the Red Mountain .
11 He felt as he had that night when he invoked the power of Callanish to intercede and save Minch 's life .
12 The man , the man who 's the man or the man in the street and he had that empathy which allowed him
13 He had that look he used to get on Saturday mornings after he had come back from the shops .
14 As always , he had that look of having the world on a string , everything indisputably under his control .
15 So he would he had that week off did n't he ?
16 And yet he had that smoothness of satiety about him , in his voice , in his smile , even in the touch of his hands .
17 And my son-in-law he was working with him , and when he had that accident , well it 's ridiculous what he done that day .
18 Simon sold it on when he had that accident .
19 With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck .
20 we used to have a boat as well and then when er , when his erm mind er , well brain self started , you know he had that Alzheimer 's disease
21 Remember I told you he had that job checking street-lamps ?
22 Yes because at the moment he 's just , I mean he 's I mean he has n't , I mean he had that job in Debenhams and that 's it is n't it really ?
23 He had that effect on people .
24 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
25 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 .
26 He 's quite good , but you know he , he , where , where he had that bash on his head
27 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 .
28 Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason .
29 Years ago before he had that 'ouse built on Road .
30 Perhaps he 'll keep it out there , well he had that patch to it did n't he ?
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