Example sentences of "of his [noun sg] [conj] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Girardelli suffered severe bruising to his hip and the small of his back and has been advised to rest for a month and so could miss six World Cup races . |
| 2 | ‘ You would almost think he had heard the news as well , ’ said Morgund of Moray , who had a round red bruise from a spear-butt in the middle of his forehead and had blunted his axe on six men . |
| 3 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 4 | He had lived in Stepney for most of his life and had come to South London to work for Joe Maitland when the warehouse opened two years ago . |
| 5 | It would be nice to think their affair had meant something to him , and after Seville he was picking up the pieces of his life and had found happiness with another woman . |
| 6 | Gandhi claims to have practised ahi sā throughout most of his life and to have applied it successfully in all walks of life . |
| 7 | But by then it was too late to withdraw , as David had gulped several mouthfuls of his lager and had set his glass back on the table . |
| 8 | Yet so well did my father hide his feelings , so professionally did he carry out his duties , that on his departure the General had actually complimented Mr John Silvers on the excellence of his butler and had left an unusually large tip in appreciation — which my father without hesitation asked his employer to donate to a charity . |
| 9 | He had made a meticulous drawing of his find and had insisted that she take his handiwork with her to Moscow where it adorned , in turn , dormitory , flat and office . |
| 10 | He blushed guiltily , but the small part of his brain that had been vaguely monitoring the discussion alerted him to the fact that he had been asked a question by the executive producer . |
| 11 | And before he could stop himself some part of his brain that had nothing to do took control of his mouth and added , ‘ Heroes , in fact . ’ |
| 12 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 13 | Endill could not get the strange figure from the library out of his head and had soon forgotten all about his plan to escape . |
| 14 | Morris finished a frustrating two runs short of his century but had the consolation of sharing a partnership of 169 with Steve James ( 65 not out ) Glamorgan 's highest ever Sunday League opening partnership . |
| 15 | That he had only looked through Mrs report on the day of his evidence and had taken five or ten minutes on Mrs report . |
| 16 | Nor has his influence always been entirely healthy : he resembles Nietzsche and Schopenhauer in that it has sometimes been the more morbid and pathological features of his thought that have exercised the strongest fascination on his readers . |
| 17 | Doctors are keeping Tim on the life support machine for 24 hours to make sure the drugs have worked out of his system and have not ruled out all hope . |
| 18 | Although he was more in control of his temper than had been his predecessor , Miloš was cruel , greedy , corrupt , devious and also illiterate . |
| 19 | Despite continuing reservations concerning " character " issues — throughout the campaign Clinton had been assailed over various aspects of his private life and judgment — there was evidence throughout April that many senior Democrats had accepted the inevitability of his nomination and had begun closing ranks around him in preparation for the campaign against Bush . |
| 20 | I believe he is half aware of his problem and has made some effort to solve it by forcing himself to concentrate on what he is told to read . |
| 21 | He thought of his dam that had been to make a lake . |
| 22 | Engels argued , and this is a fundamental aspect of his work that has become obscured in the discussion over whether there ever were such things as primitive promiscuity or group marriage , against those who asserted that monogamous marriage and the type of family that was associated with it was a universally valid ideal of man , irrespective of social or cultural context . |
| 23 | She had then wished him good luck with the sale of his book and had quietly shut the door in his face . |
| 24 | The writer had tried to alter the slant of his hand and had changed the shape of the small r . |
| 25 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 26 | Anthony Tory , who misses the ride on Docklands Express , is believed to have pulled a muscle in the back of his neck or to have displaced some vertebrae . |
| 27 | His complaint is a more general one about the lack of respect for custom and the gradual constriction of his world that has taken place in fifty years . |
| 28 | Reinhard Heydrich wiped the portion of his face that had been covered by his mask . |
| 29 | Mouse suddenly thought of his stomach as having a big red circular target on it with HIT THERE printed in the centre . |
| 30 | Sime had been in court on the day of his death and had displayed no anxiety or stress . |