Example sentences of "he had [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had probably the nicest nature of any dog I ever owned , and possessed the loveliest eyes , brown in colour , and he was my dog definitely . |
| 2 | When she arrived at the Rectory she found that Mrs Chamberlin was out , the Rectory children had been taken for a walk by the nursemaid , the Rector had asked not to be disturbed for he had both a parish letter and acute indigestion to tackle that afternoon . |
| 3 | He had both a yellow and a red stain across his chest and he was turning around with his arms out appealing for a referee , then he turned and trudged back to the farmhouse for his time penalty . |
| 4 | We may note that Lieberich also spoke again at the RI , this time on the real and the ideal in portraiture , in March 1875 ; by then he had both an MD and MRCS after his name . |
| 5 | Then he had both the work and the company . |
| 6 | In 1236 he had both the honour of carrying the sceptre at the queen 's coronation , and the disgrace of imprisonment through a court cabal . |
| 7 | The firmness of the French reaction was probably inevitable , given the circumstances , but it was also highly dangerous for it meant that if and when Bismarck sought to provoke France he knew that he had exactly the cause he needed . |
| 8 | He had exactly the same expression on his face when I mentioned your name as you 've got now . |
| 9 | because he had exactly the same problems when he moved in |
| 10 | He was young and quick , he had surely the advantage provided he kept room to recoil out of range . |
| 11 | He had practically no money left in the world , but he went on drinking champagne on credit . |
| 12 | He had barely a scratch upon him , he was hardly blown by comparison with these , and he stood off while they breathed , and at the last lighted down from his tired horse , to meet with the most valiant on equal terms . |
| 13 | He had neither the patience nor method to understand properly how they worked and he would not bow to any instruction other than his own perusal of certain manuals and textbooks . |
| 14 | He had neither the will nor the courage to stir . |
| 15 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 16 | When James succeeded his brother Charles as king in 1685 he showed that he was willing to make the power of the Crown more effective in North America by pressing on with the creation of the Dominion of New England , but he had neither the surplus revenue nor the obedient bureaucracy needed to run a system like that applied by continental monarchs . |
| 17 | Yet he was not at this stage prepared to risk open war on their behalf ; although he disliked the peace of 1328 he had neither the resources nor the general political support for a renewal of the Scottish war . |
| 18 | He had neither the background nor the inclination for life in those institutions whose products he so roundly despised . |
| 19 | Although he had neither the time nor the opportunity to continue with his verse drama , the subject was never far from his mind . |
| 20 | Worried that the Colonel might leap into army talk for which he had neither the preparation nor the inclination , Hope let flow a hand and beckoned in all about them . |
| 21 | He had neither the fuel nor the skill to match the rotational speed of the vehicle . |
| 22 | In Aden Nizan had learned a simple and never-to-be-forgotten lesson : that to live one 's life , as he had since the age of twelve , with the sole objective of not being a loser was an inadequate response , since it failed to take account of the political and social structures which determined the real significance of such a project . |
| 23 | Now he had on a suit . |
| 24 | He had also a strong sense of humour , which was to her mind a great asset . |
| 25 | But there can be little doubt that he had two causes in mind , and great probability that he had also a third . |
| 26 | He had also a box of groceries to pick up and some wooden and cardboard boxes that he thought would be useful for Willie 's room . |
| 27 | He reprinted articles from other publications , often in weekly parts ; translated papers such as those of Mendeleev ; and gave news of industrial developments and of exhibitions ; he had also a lively correspondence section . |
| 28 | He had also an interest in a company , Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , and was the company 's auditor . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know how much you know about Hugh 's private life , but the fact is he had rather a crush on me . |
| 30 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |