Example sentences of "he [adv] had the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few months these hopes were dashed when a majority of the Manchester committee insisted on recognising an American evangelical , the Rev. Fred Hemming , as an official agent to raise money for the anti-Garrisonian abolitionists in America although he only had the general support of Lewis Tappan and apparently regarded the Garrisonians and their British sympathisers as ‘ infidel abolitionists ’ . |
| 2 | And yet he felt he alone had the whole worry of what action to take , and the responsibility for her life as well as his . |
| 3 | I mean you did n't get the card , he just had the one card |
| 4 | Rachmaninov , almost 30 when he completed his Chopin Variations , was by contrast more cautious , setting out to compose his first large-scale solo work for his own instrument ; and , although he already had the popular Second Concerto behind him , he had also been deeply affected by the disastrous première of his First Symphony , just four years earlier , under the erratic baton of the guttered Glazunov . |
| 5 | His handsomeness was a little battered now , but he still had the wolfish look she remembered from years ago — long face , strong jaw , broad brow ; his mouth was full and slightly lopsided , which gave him a crooked grin . |
| 6 | He still had the jewelled dagger hidden in a barrel on board his ketch , and he had put the sack with the money belt in an old sea chest left to him by his father . |
| 7 | In fact he still had the worst — a mare called ‘ Bint Pomona . ’ |
| 8 | He still had the numbed feeling on him , and that in itself was frightening , for as yet he could feel no sorrow for either Martin or Mr Smith . |
| 9 | He once had the impossible job of being PA to Ted Heath in sulphurous exile . |
| 10 | ‘ Having differently coloured eyes is rare enough but he also had the distinctive physique of a bodybuilder , ’ Rust said , cutting in across Kolchinsky 's words . |
| 11 | He also had the fastest 400m time last year |
| 12 | He also had the good judgement to concentrate on those cases in which his pea plants could be classified into one of two distinct classes , with no intermediates . |
| 13 | If DeVore had the boy , he also had the only complete record of the Project 's work — the basis of a system that could directly control vast numbers of people . |
| 14 | He also had the same stock-in-trade qualities that were clearly visible in Len Cheshire , Willie Tait , Jimmy Marks , Pat Daniels and the youthful Fraser Barron to name but a handful . |
| 15 | Bartocci might previously have had some difficulty in making himself heard , but now he instantly had the total attention of both men . |
| 16 | Well fuck when I come back up he near had the fucking front door broke trying to get it open so that they 'd come in the front and I see the kitchen door 's closed and I just walked in and I said well John the dishes or nothing 's done if you wan na go and have a look because he would n't do them . |
| 17 | Confident in the knowledge that he now had the general support of most of the top brass to his world control plan , Mueller considered that he was now in a much stronger position to start pulling the rug out from under the Regional Area Managers . |
| 18 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 19 | He truly had the supernatural alertness of the hunted . |
| 20 | As for Mr. Williams , he never had the least encouragement from me . |
| 21 | ‘ He never had the humdrum application to do that ; anyway , he would have had to re-equip his factory . ’ |