Example sentences of "he [adv] had [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 2 | Snell 's wife was Susannah and he apparently had one son . |
| 3 | His intellectual ability was never pushed at you , yet he obviously had great potential . ’ |
| 4 | He was dignified , he was knowledgeable , and he obviously had great feeling not only for British art but all kinds of art . |
| 5 | To his credit he obviously had strong parental affection and a powerful concern that the child should not be totally alienated from him . |
| 6 | He only had one tiny conviction for shoplifting so far , and felt sure that would n't be held against him . |
| 7 | He went off to Barnard Castle up in the North somewhere to practice jumping out of a captive balloon , but he only had one go at |
| 8 | He used to try and learn other players ' licks from the radio and this process was hampered by the fact that he only had one pass in which to do so . |
| 9 | Since he wanted to delay the ceremony , but did n't want to go to the trouble of desecrating any graves , he only had one option . |
| 10 | And there , the tailor , he 'd been trained in the war , and he he only had one la leg , and he seemed very nice , but er he told me to start on the Monday and then I got a letter . |
| 11 | We found Dod 's van in the NCP and I explained to Kim that as he only had one passenger seat , the two of us had better travel in the cold and bare , unheated back along with Dod 's drum kit . |
| 12 | Hitler was fit only for the loony bin , his generals would kill him within five minutes if he ever declared war , and he only had one ball . |
| 13 | Here is Lawrence , bowls this one on the leg stump , push there , the short play , fielded by Morris and that 's a wicket er that was eighteen , DaSilva a hundred and sixteen minutes and he only had one four and if we remember his first innings when he scored forty-two , with seven fours and he was in only for that , thirty-something minutes , was it ? |
| 14 | Next night he fancied a bit of fresh salmon and as he only had two days to live , she rushed out and bought him some salmon . |
| 15 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 16 | And was on to us , he only had four thousand five hundred that 's all the money he had , that 's all I 've got four thousand five hundred . |
| 17 | He only had fifty in the bloody shop , I thought oh good at least we 've got ours . |
| 18 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 19 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 20 | " He just had ten cocktails , for Christ 's sake . " |
| 21 | He just had some time to spare waiting for Maria Luisa to return and why not fill it with a bit of Ruth-baiting ? |
| 22 | The mortifying thought occurred to her that he was playing games , that he somehow had telepathic powers and could read every angry , frightened , confused , cowardly thought scurrying through her brain … |
| 23 | Now he finally had one of his own — only one , but all the more precious for that — and he simply could n't set it down . |
| 24 | But he soon had second thoughts . |
| 25 | He must have succeeded in ‘ smittling ivverybody ’ for he soon had two teams of twenty a side . |
| 26 | Mr Kidd said he already had anecdotal evidence of US conventions pulling out of the UK : ‘ One conference of surgeons and one group of insurance sales staff , who planned to come to London for two weeks , could not find a hotel they were happy with . ’ |
| 27 | He already had many clients from the world of showbusiness . |
| 28 | He already had one vice president . |
| 29 | I 'm stood there and he said , all of a sudden he comes , cos he already had one of the lads in Ian |
| 30 | He already had all the Knights Templar in France arrested on trumped-up charges of immorality : now he wanted conciliar approval . |