Example sentences of "man [adv] had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That hateful man obviously had no intention of helping . |
| 2 | There was much swearing , but the big man finally had a leaf of flame springing up to lick around the dried heather curls from the tinder sack . |
| 3 | The thought ran through my mind that the old man probably had a pocket full of money he had begged and stolen . |
| 4 | What we would need to do is establish about Brown 's mental event and Green 's mental event that if either man also had the other 's experience , he could not distinguish in content between the two events . |
| 5 | The magistrates pointed out that they did not consider this sufficient punishment , but since the men already had a huge backlog of unpaid fines , there was little point in imposing a larger sum , and no alternative sentence was possible under current law . |
| 6 | Men always had an obvious motive , so their compliments did n't mean anything ; a woman 's was more honest , usually . |
| 7 | These men also had the highest standardised mortality ratio for all causes of death . |
| 8 | The new industrial centres were , in fact , quite small at first , and as they were mainly out of the way in unfashionable parts of the country , many people ignored them completely ; one or two distinguished men even had the impression that the population was declining . |