Example sentences of "that he had [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Transkei 's military leader , Major General Bantu Holomisa , said yesterday that he had no objection to Mr Mandela setting up home in his territory .
2 When the appellant received notice of the order , he applied for the order to be set aside on the grounds that he had no notice of the proceedings and had nothing to do with it .
3 In the same 1975 interview Genet declares that he had no choice but to identify with oppressed blacks since he too was black .
4 Neither Morgan nor Engels denied that he had no direct evidence at all for this first primeval stage of total promiscuity .
5 He stood up to indicate thai the conversation was at an end and that he had no wish to be involved as a partner in such blasphemous and heretical talk .
6 A mutiny against the rowing establishment last summer by oarsmen being coached by him was patched up in time for the world championships in Yugoslavia , but at the end of the championships Spracklen declared that he had no future in British rowing .
7 Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way .
8 Lindsay , who said that he had no idea he would be offered the job , pledged his support to Reilly , saying that he was ‘ firmly behind the decision to ask Malcolm to continue as he is obviously the best man for the job ’ .
9 Lozano had claimed that the motorcycle was aimed at him , and that he had no time to leap out of the way .
10 Lindsay , who said that he had no idea he would be offered the job , pledged his support to Reilly , saying that he was ‘ firmly behind the decision to ask Malcolm to continue as he is obviously the best man for the job ’ .
11 At the meeting , however , Mr K had told Mr McLean that he had no view about Mr Uppal 's involvement .
12 The Soviet Foreign Minister , Mr Eduard Shevardnadze , said in Brussels that he had no specific details of the unrest but that any intervention by the security forces was highly regrettable .
13 Handed in letter from my father stating that he had no other relatives in the area and because of his blindness and disability he would benefit from them moving into the area .
14 Only next day did we discover that he had no part whatever in the plot — to Mr Wrong of Colchester , our apologies !
15 He got half-way down the corridor and realized in irritation that he had no idea where she had been given an office .
16 It is worth remembering that , when Indira asked Rajiv to go into politics after his elder brother 's death in 1980 , he put out a statement saying that he had no such intention .
17 Mr Cossiga 's televised remarks , in which he announced that he had no intention of accepting a cabinet reshuffle and might even call an early election , caused a political storm .
18 The struggle in his head was so fierce that he had no energy left to fight Doyle .
19 The armed robber might say that he had no intention of using the firearm , that he carried it with him simply to frighten the victim , and that it went off accidentally : if the jury believes that , should he be convicted of murder ?
20 He would have liked to say I 'd rather you stayed , except that he had no real reason , or no reason he could give her easily .
21 He cried that he had no rope .
22 The official appeared to ponder — I had the feeling that the pause was histrionic rather than meditative — and I was aware that he had no real concern .
23 If some investigative journalist had claimed that Crabb died while making an unauthorised underwater inspection of the Russian cruiser he would have been ridiculed on the grounds that he had no proof .
24 But in wartime everything was more difficult : building had ceased , building sites were closed and workmen were mobilized , so that he had no easy source of stone .
25 However , it was obviously a blatant lie that he had no idea that Hewett and Charlton were police officers .
26 Fortunately for Napoleon III , Alexander II was so involved for the next six years with the internal reconstruction of his Empire , which the Crimean War had shown to be lamentably weak , that he had no time for a ‘ forward ’ policy in Europe which might thwart French designs .
27 Three weeks earlier they had devoted a page to the story that another of his girlfriends , actress Rebecca Broussard , aged twenty-six , was expecting his baby , revealing that he was ‘ excitedly looking forward to playing daddy , but the bed-jumping Joker has flatly told Rebecca that he had no intention of marrying her . ’
28 In May 1964 , McAteer criticised his Nationalist colleague , Patrick Gormley MP , for saying that he had no qualms about rising for ‘ God Save the Queen ’ , or the loyal toast .
29 Richard was already a good shot , a patient fisherman and a brave , if occasionally reckless , rider , but competence in all these sports had come to him so easily that he had no interest in practising them .
30 He ended the tour so upset and disorganized that he had no plans for the summer holiday .
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