Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun sg] have [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drove past the Ecole Militaire , where his brother had begun his career as a soldier , in that uniform he still remembered so clearly . |
| 2 | The pet shop where his grandad had bought him his hamster called Hammer and his goldfish called Sickle and where his nan used to take them for resurrection when they died . |
| 3 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 4 | H This Contract shall represent all the terms agreed between the parties hereto and the buyer hereby admits that no statement made by the seller or his agent has induced him to enter into this Contract except written statements , if any , made by the seller 's conveyancers . |
| 5 | In the kitchen Matey and McAllister had been compelled to hear every brutal word — neither Dr Neil nor his tormentor had kept their voice down — bustle about and bang pots as they might . |
| 6 | Hariri announced that his government had set itself objectives of " liberation , reform and development " . |
| 7 | His behaviour may be such as to demonstrate that his reversion has taken him right back to the use of the ruthlessness which preceded civilisation . |
| 8 | However , it was not so much the fact that his life had ended which seemed to affect Maxine . |
| 9 | ‘ Why not ? ’ she agreed lightly , hoping he would n't notice that his question had thrown her off balance . |
| 10 | Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 've shown my feeling at last , Tess , ’ he said with a curious sigh , showing that his heart had overcome his reason . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 13 | and he 's listening to a tape that his mum has sent him . |
| 14 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 15 | The faint waft of the regiment of unwashed drifted down the carriage as he carried on his harangue , vouchsafing the information that his wife had divorced him , not the other way round . |
| 16 | However , love or no love , Martin had arrived at the gallery one morning , with his small baby in his arms , and the news that his wife had left him , and the clear expectation of help of some kind from Clelia . |
| 17 | ‘ No , not really , ’ he replied , and Rachel remembered that his wife had left him , then as she turned to go he suddenly spoke again . |
| 18 | He asked a senior nursing sister , who a few weeks earlier he had told that his wife had left him , for time off and left at 4.30pm . |
| 19 | He told me that his wife had left him and she had told him that the baby she was carrying was not his . ’ |
| 20 | did n't say I did n't like him , just said that his wife had left him |
| 21 | With the illicit amorous adventures of wives in the situation of the eternal triangle ( husband , wife , lover ) being the most common single dramatic type in the fabliaux , the most frequent type as the object of ridicule is the deceived husband , often not merely cuckolded but on occasion beaten or otherwise degraded or abused as well ; and what is more after all this sometimes so utterly deceived that he remains happy in the delusion that his wife has proved herself faithful to him . |
| 22 | Any way he had the money that his dad had given him . |
| 23 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 24 | The lessee in a lease — the defendant so covenanted in this case — covenants in effect that he or his assignee will perform the covenants and observe the conditions contained in it ; and when , as in the present instance , the defendant sets up no performance by himself of the covenants sued on , his defence must be either that his assignee has performed them or that his assignee is in some way as between himself and the lessor absolved from performance . |
| 25 | On 7 April Irwin was writing to the Secretary of State that the Mahatma 's health was poor and that his horoscope had predicted he would die that year , which would be , he said , ‘ a very happy solution ’ . |
| 26 | He was frozen there with an appalled sense of waste , that his cohort had denied him his greatest discovery . |
| 27 | Rafsanjani told a press conference in Khartoum on Dec. 16 that his visit had allowed him to see a country " advancing towards Islamicization " . |
| 28 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 29 | Mr Salmond emphasised that the only correspondence surrounding the deal had already been published and rejected claims that his party had broken its side of the deal . |
| 30 | The Labour candidate , who managed to keep his deposit , pointed out that his party had improved their position in the constituency by some 900 votes . |