Example sentences of "the [noun pl] have [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 2 | She was relieved to see that her son 's tour of the palaces had left his eyes shining and he greeted her with something approaching his normal smile . |
| 3 | The miller down the ages has made his own peculiar contribution to the low esteem in which he was held . |
| 4 | The Zoroastrians still reckon dates by the years of the last Zoroastrian king of Iran , Yazdgard III of the Sassanian dynasty ( who was assassinated in AD 651 after the Arabs had overrun his kingdom ) , thus prolonging his imaginary reign through the centuries . |
| 5 | Howard is angry the Chemics have blocked his summer stint with Australian Winfield Cup side Eastern Suburbs . |
| 6 | Steele , in charge of Music , had joined the staff in 1946 , and over the years had instilled his own love of music into hundreds of pupils by means which , if slightly idiosyncratic , were enormously successful , and had nurtured talents as diverse as members of symphony orchestras and pop groups , and soloists . |
| 7 | The spring and early summer of 1169 Henry spent in the south , taking and demolishing many of the castles from which the rebels had defied his authority . |
| 8 | Six pom-poms glide past the end of the table and we realise that one of the dwarves has lost his hat . |
| 9 | ‘ The Lord Cardinal has described your escapades until the tears have soaked his cheeks . ’ |
| 10 | He said the men had threatened his life , and even as he drove the victim to the beauty spot where the gang waited , one had been hiding in the boot of his car with a shotgun . |
| 11 | Now it seems that the cuts have clipped his wings . |
| 12 | In a case in May 1988 , a youth called Alladice confessed to armed robbery after the police had denied his request for a solicitor . |
| 13 | Amy popped her head round the door to tell Kathleen that they had found some ID on the track and the police had brought his parents in . |
| 14 | The police had found his body the previous afternoon , just before lunch . |
| 15 | They set off , but the Friar did not understand at first whom they were following ; it was as though he believed that the children had taken his sack . |
| 16 | Each of the batsmen has had his moments , unfortunately not enough of them and not at the same time to a sufficient degree . |
| 17 | He stood up , waiting until the others had followed his lead . |
| 18 | The mother of one of the victims has decribed his assailants as savages . |
| 19 | One of the sailors has pursed his lips against a woodwind , his fingers and thumb governing , shall we say , the ventages , whereupon , giving it breath , let us say , with his mouth , it , the pipe , discourses , as the saying goes , most eloquent music . |
| 20 | From his home in Maltby in Yorkshire , he told journalists that the accusations had devastated his children . |