Example sentences of "he had [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she arrived at the Rectory she found that Mrs Chamberlin was out , the Rectory children had been taken for a walk by the nursemaid , the Rector had asked not to be disturbed for he had both a parish letter and acute indigestion to tackle that afternoon . |
| 2 | He had barely a scratch upon him , he was hardly blown by comparison with these , and he stood off while they breathed , and at the last lighted down from his tired horse , to meet with the most valiant on equal terms . |
| 3 | He had also a box of groceries to pick up and some wooden and cardboard boxes that he thought would be useful for Willie 's room . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know how much you know about Hugh 's private life , but the fact is he had rather a crush on me . |
| 5 | The irrational thought almost occurs that Shakespeare could n't have been that smart if he did n't realise that he had here a performer who can turn sows ' ears into silk purses , and silk purses into live butterflies . |
| 6 | He had quite a bit on Harvey , a Kennedy Catholic who had been ‘ the good friend ’ of the late Emma Kerr . |
| 7 | Aye well this man that I ke know he had quite a lot of money and he just gave a six pence to the kirk , and he had always plenty of money when he died . |
| 8 | He had his two elder sons with him , he had quite a lot of time for enjoyment , certainly to start with , he went hunting round Woodstock quite often , and they played tennis , The erm Racquet Sport , and I think they played tennis in The Racquet Sport , I 'm not absolutely certain , was actually just erm facing onto Blue Boar Street , erm behind the Unicorn Inn . |
| 9 | and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out |
| 10 | But he had still a trick or two up his sleeve . |
| 11 | For though Henry I had left England in a very confused state because he had only a daughter to inherit his title , Henry II 's problem was quite the reverse . |
| 12 | He had only a daughter to succeed him and his son-in-law turned out to be a second Michael Chambre , who after Lath 's death ‘ let loose the reins to many disorderly courses , as cocking , raseing , drinking and lewdnesse ’ , so that he too finally lost all and sold Balderton to Robert Hayward , a local yeoman . |
| 13 | He had only a second to stare at a page before setting off various alarm spells , but that was time enough for one spell to leap from it and settle in his memory like a toad in a stone . |
| 14 | This knight was named Oleg Ban , and he was so poor that he had only a horse and two hounds , nine men to fight for him , nine maids , and a wooden fortress ; but he was the bravest knight in the whole land . |