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 . |