Example sentences of "[vb past] he had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 2 | they mentioned he had an excellent game — and from the goals showed the scot goalkeeper could have done much better on two of the italian goals … specially the first one — a flat shot from far out and at an angle too . |
| 3 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 4 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |
| 5 | We found he had a whole store of out of door knowledge which he was quite ready to impart . |
| 6 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 7 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 8 | Carl Howard says he took it up at school and won … went on to county level and won and just found he had a natural talent … he 's always enjoyed sprinting and athletics |
| 9 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 10 | As he stared back at her he found he had no answer . |
| 11 | Patrick then found he had no French money . |
| 12 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |
| 13 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 14 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 15 | The scenario has left Lewis , who believed he had a cast iron agreement to fight Bowe or Holyfield after his stunning knockout of Razor Ruddock a fortnight ago , thinking he 's a victim of another Bruno panto script . |
| 16 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 17 | He believed he had no soul . ’ |
| 18 | By the use of these three methods Morgan believed he had the means with which to discover the history of marriage in human societies . |
| 19 | He shuffled around the lower reaches of the ATP Tour 's top 100 , consistently breaking the hearts of those who believed he had the potential to hit the big-time . |
| 20 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 21 | I you may memory , you added he had a hand gun that 's what she told you ? |
| 22 | Even granted he had the power to sack her , that would not be the end of the world . |
| 23 | ‘ I noticed he had a few extra bits and pieces on . |
| 24 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 25 | Theodora noticed he had a slight Norfolk accent and no trace of nervousness or pomposity . |
| 26 | He told he had an important engagement and must go , on the Saturday night . |
| 27 | " When the war came he had a fleet of eleven ships , most of them modern carriers of eight hundred to one thousand tons . |
| 28 | In his letter of resignation to the party leader , Mr Rezsoe Nyers , with whom he has been waging a long-running feud , Mr Nemeth stated he had no option but to resign . |
| 29 | Blood tests confirmed he had the disease in December 1987 but he kept the tragic secret from his family for more than three years . |
| 30 | His chart showed he had no earth — no practical common sense . |