Example sentences of "he also had a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also had a plastic-covered book under his arm . |
| 2 | Severely puritanical and sabbatarian in outlook , he also had a great fund of homely anecdotes about village mores , in both Welsh and English . |
| 3 | He also had a great deal of ability , but like all the older ones had to leave school and go out to work to help support the family once he reached the end of primary school . |
| 4 | He was both fascinated by chickens and everything to do with them , but he also had a great dislike of them . |
| 5 | He also had a small stable of girls working the docks , specializing in the new boats to put into harbour , and the girls had their instructions to discover details of the shipment … and there was always a bonus if they discovered an interesting cargo . |
| 6 | He also had a private meeting with the speaker of parliament and the president of the Constitutional Court , two of his leading opponents , in an attempt to seek a compromise . |
| 7 | He also had a keen grasp of steam locomotive matters and was responsible for introducing suburban passenger locomotives in 1945 , in which year he also made proposals for the first LMS ( and British ) main-line diesel-electric locomotives , which were finally introduced under his successor H. G. Ivatt two years later . |
| 8 | He also had a disinterested fascination with the records of the middle ages , especially those of the west country . |
| 9 | Erm and er , but he also had a major drinking problem . |
| 10 | He also had a soporific gift . |
| 11 | DOCTORS treated road victim Bill Healey for a broken nose and then sent him home — failing to notice that he also had a fractured jaw , cheekbone , leg and foot . |
| 12 | He also had a working association with the civil engineer Robert Sabine , one of the pioneers of transatlantic telegraphy . |
| 13 | He also had a real enjoyment of brief , casual relationships , sexual or otherwise ; one of his gay friends remarked to me that even with a passing infatuation , a pick-up , John never tried to impress people with who he was , never used the glamour of his position to dazzle them , but was interested most in finding out who they were , what kind of person . |
| 14 | But he also had a genuine vocation for healing — a vocation which he was unable to satisfy because his poor background prevented his going to medical college . ’ |
| 15 | He also had a microscopic colitis consistent with Crohn 's disease , although no granulomas were seen . |
| 16 | He also had a high opinion of British travellers and officials but felt that they were not dedicated , or good examples of Christian virtues ; they had not been chosen for their moral worth and were likely to be judged by Muslims in that light . |
| 17 | If Claudine had a friend staying at the château then Alain was showing that he also had a willing friend . |
| 18 | He won at Cookstown , Tandragee , Mid-Antrim and Carrowdore and he also had a large slice of wins in the South . |
| 19 | He also had a three-day-old beard . |
| 20 | Trained in the hard school of the Labour movement to win legitimacy for their political aspirations toward higher living standards and greater popular participation , he also had a realistic appreciation of the benefits of the economic organisation already achieved by capitalism . |
| 21 | He obviously possessed great talents , though he perhaps thought more highly of them than did others ; and he also had a unique capacity for arousing antagonisms and hatred . |
| 22 | He also had a graduated filter in front of his eyes that turned every sky into a backcloth for " Maria Martin or the Murder in the Red Barn " . |
| 23 | The vet wrapped it up but he also had a little thing on his ear so he cut that out as well and he 's gon na wear the collar to stop him scratching his ear and |
| 24 | One assumes he also had a Christian name and that his mother loved him , but one thing is certain , nobody else at Binbrook did . |