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

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1 No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them .
2 Since he had outstanding gifts of tact and diplomacy and great skill as an administrator — and a delightful pawky sense of humour — he had many tasks added to his departmental load , including : chairman of the Scottish Health Services Council ( 1954-59 ) , Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Edinburgh ( 1955-57 ) , chairman of the Edinburgh Postgraduate Board for Medicine ( 1966-71 ) , and Curator of Patronage of the university .
3 I do n't think he had many friends here , certainly none that would have lasted after he took his diploma .
4 At Oxford he had many friends in religious and artistic circles , chief among them Robert Bridges [ q.v. ] , his trusted confidant and poetic sounding-board for the rest of his life , as well as his first editor , who put his poems before the world .
5 He had many friends , ’ she said softly .
6 Flavius Josephus made a diligent search for references to Jews in Greek literature when he compiled his contra Apionem ; and no doubt he had many predecessors in this hunt .
7 He had many contacts in Germany .
8 Outside chemistry he had many interests .
9 It is precisely because he had many titles that we did not see agree , he and I. Voila . ’
10 He had many things to ponder in his heart .
11 And but that he had many things to occupy his mind , and she no less , I think something would have come of it before now . ’
12 And he had many enemies there .
13 I do n't know who killed him , but he had many enemies in Scotland .
14 He had many times been reduced to helpless rage by Graham 's attitude to his subjects , by his refusal to give science stories the importance Mike believed they had , but at least he was consistent in his attitudes .
15 It is not merely that there are portraits of him at every turn , for there are almost as many of Inglis , nor could it be claimed that he was the greatest lawyer , for he had many rivals for that title even in his own generation , yet it is beyond argument that he was the most influential advocate ever to walk the floor of Parliament House .
16 It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival .
17 Prior to that he had many years ' experience in the trade , as group sales director of Associated Book Publishers and as group marketing director until 1989 of Random House UK .
18 In fact he never visited England where he had many daughters ; there was much delegation .
19 While Miller seemed chiefly to glean knowledge on the cultivation of flowers and vegetables from Holland , he turned to Italy for information on fruit culture and here again he had many correspondents .
20 With a slash of knife , the hospital , the prison — he had many names for the school where he was both patient and prisoner but never a pupil — comes slithering into his mind .
21 He had many books .
22 " Now El-ahrairah was among the animals in those days and he had many wives .
23 As chief adviser to Louis VI in the last decade of his reign , and as Louis VII 's most trusted minister until his death in 1152 , he had many opportunities to impress his theories on princes and lords who would not dare to scoff .
24 He said that as a boy at school he had such experiences and wondered whether they were like Michael 's .
25 It was because he saw public opinion , more than the state , as a threat to individual liberty that he had such apprehensions about the trend towards democracy .
26 I never under stood why he had such fits of fury because normally he was the kindest and most considerate of men .
27 The knot under his chin was still firmly fastened and he had extensive burns on his head and face .
28 He had extensive estates in Ayrshire , Renfrewshire and the Lothians , which yielded him large annual revenues , and elegant houses in various parts of Britain .
29 I think I would have to give the biscuit to him because one day I was down at the bankruptcy court and I discovered that he had 130 petitions on the file and I do n't think mine reached 100 !
30 He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older , bygone age .
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