Example sentences of "he had a strong [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , he was fascinated by Suedehead and its lurid tale of violence against blacks and homosexuals , but do n't forget that as a kid he had a strong affection for gore and horror in general .
2 His face showed that he had a strong character .
3 ‘ . Thus if Scargill was satisfied that ( a ) Branch members would accede to a call for a strike by their local officials , ( b ) that those officials would call a strike , and ( c ) that the National Executive ( over which he had a strong influence ) would sanction such strikes , then he could achieve the equivalent of a national strike without submitting it to the membership at large for their endorsement .
4 He had a strong lobby at the National Gallery led by Dodge Thompson , and Gil Ravenel and Mark Leithauser , the two principal exhibition designers , who doubtless want Rusty to continue the big shows .
5 It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually .
6 He had a strong sense of responsibility to his vocation of preaching and loved to compare himself to St Paul .
7 It must have looked to him — and to the viewers , with whom he had a strong following — that his status as television performer would suffer .
8 Soon he had a strong fire going and the blue smoke pillared up through the young oak leaves .
9 The king might be happy to comply ; on the other hand , he had a strong interest in maintaining his pool of benefices , and sometimes tried to resume a grant on the death of a tenant , especially if the potential heir was a child .
10 He had a strong face , the jaw almost rugged , the nose classically bridged .
11 He had a strong desire to be a ‘ peace-keeper ’ .
12 He had a strong desire to get to know her better , and yet here she was talking of marriage !
13 He had a strong urge to put his arms round the man , and indeed was about to do so , when Malik thrust him away , sobbing .
14 He had a strong tongue , ’ Phillips remembers .
15 Indeed he had a strong feeling that only his six foot four inches prevented one of them from saying so .
16 He had a strong feeling for architecture , as for natural history , and his preferred subjects were urban views and outdoor scenes with buildings , animals , and plants , notably the magnolias and orchids which he cultivated at Corsham .
17 He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head .
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