Example sentences of "whose [noun sg] he have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , a suspicion lingers that the gamekeeper 's grandson would like to be the laird , and I think it scandalous that Jackie 's rewards from a nation whose standard-bearer he has so long been , should be a mere OBE. |
| 2 | It also came from the clergy , who disliked the White Revolution generally , and from the liberals whose thunder he had to some extent stolen . |
| 3 | As abbot of Bec , Anselm had owed obedience to several superiors whose permission he had sought before accepting the archbishopric . |
| 4 | Was she the third person , whose presence he had always sensed ? |
| 5 | Ludens had , as he had told Franca , booked himself into a local pub , whose existence he had discovered by telephoning the village post office , and was quietly determined to remain there indefinitely . |
| 6 | It suddenly flashed into Jack 's mind that this must be Ho , Mr Chan 's son — the boy he had been asked to protect and whose existence he had virtually forgotten in the confusion of events . |
| 7 | The first was an attempt to establish a privileged relationship with West Germany , to whose existence he had now reconciled himself . |
| 8 | The editor passed the letter to a person whom he knew to be an ‘ outside broker ’ ( one who does Stock Exchange business but is not a member of the Exchange ) but whose honesty he had no reason to suspect . |
| 9 | This wild and wayward child of the Prophets — ‘ a Daniel come to Judgment ’ — needed the thick padded hide of the antediluvian monster , whose maw he had so precipitately fled from . |
| 10 | He thanked them all but told them that ‘ his determination was to spend his life and time and talent in his own family , for whose benefit he had now parted with all his worldly estate among them ’ . |
| 11 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 12 | The Baudelaire in whose work he had found at Harvard both the city and the savage now acted as his guide ; blasphemy led to and joined belief . |
| 13 | It was Ninette de Valois who put him in touch with John Piper , whose work he had already known and admired before leaving Cape Town , although only from reproductions , just as much as his musical knowledge came from recordings . |
| 14 | He did not show disappointment that it was a mere journalist and one who was more interested in a dead artist whose work he had never handled . |
| 15 | He is also receiving death threats from a screenwriter whose work he has snubbed . |
| 16 | In the confession box , Father Frank Martin waited until the sister whose confession he had heard was gone . |
| 17 | Only to find , first , that genuinely ill as he was , he had missed the local paper saying the psychopath had been caught , and that the compulsive liar Brenda had been telling everyone he was her lover , a rumour that had got back to his wife whose mac he had by mistake worn during the murder and had been unable to destroy . |
| 18 | When he returns to the town , he is arrested , but is set free by Ferdinand , an African promoted from the bush whose patron he has once been . |
| 19 | George remembered his father speaking of his father , to whose place he had succeeded . |
| 20 | You remember Gustave 's Madame Schlesinger , the woman who first cicatrised his adolescent heart , the woman with whom everything was doomed and hopeless , the woman of whom he used to boast furtively , the woman for whose sake he had bricked up his heart ( and you accuse our sex of vain romance ? ) . |
| 21 | Knowing that another , whose sword he had stolen , |
| 22 | It seemed odd that he should feel ill at ease among the people whose vernacular he has espoused so wholeheartedly . |
| 23 | The proud Count of Barcelona was thus forced to recognize the abilities of the man whose service he had once refused . |
| 24 | There was so much he wanted to communicate , but he knew that Estabrook was utterly ignorant of the involvement his family , whose name he 'd abandoned , had with the fate of the Dominions . |
| 25 | They were joined for lunch by the geography mistress , whose name he had not caught , and the games mistress , whose whistle-blowing prowess he had earlier admired . |
| 26 | In 1884 Samuel Barnett became warden of the newly established Toynbee Hall settlement in East London whose foundation he had inspired . |
| 27 | Not the one whose bell he had rung , of course . |
| 28 | He takes a kindly interest in David , whose father he had buried , as he recalls when he takes the boy to his shop to be measured for mourning for his mother 's funeral . |
| 29 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 30 | Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness . |