Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [noun pl] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I had caught glimpses of his shadow on the wall . |
| 2 | Nichol 's teenage girlfriend Alana Jeanette said she had seen scratches on his face the day of the attack . |
| 3 | Even when he was very successful as a young man they had made jokes about his music . |
| 4 | When CNN reported on Nov. 8 that it had obtained tapes of his telephone calls , Noriega 's chief lawyer , Frank Rubino , successfully petitioned District Judge William Hoeveler ( the judge presiding over the case ) for an injunction prohibiting the network from broadcasting any material which violated the confidentiality of the attorney-client relationship . |
| 5 | He had passed by the very spot only the other day , and it had brought tears to his eyes . |
| 6 | Throughout these stormy years , however , he had refuted criticisms of his work with patience and gentle good manners . |
| 7 | Yet he had to spend hours of his time learning Greek iambic verse as a punishment for being rude to a master in a political debate . |
| 8 | And here in this memorial chapel he had painted episodes from his experiences . |
| 9 | He had grown to admire the broader-minded industrial statesmen with whom he had had contacts in his trade union career : men like Lord Melchett and Lord McGowan of ICI or Lord Hirst of GEC , who had created large-scale industrial organisations and represented a progressive capitalism with which the Labour movement could work . |
| 10 | The appellant had deceived the court ; he had told lies to his advisers so that these lies could be unwittingly advanced to the sentencer in mitigation . |
| 11 | He had told partners of his HIV status and before he started work advice was taken from his specialists . |
| 12 | He had left instructions for his body to be cremated and in April his ashes were taken , as he had wished , to the little church of St Michael 's in East Coker , the village from which his ancestors had come . |