Example sentences of "have [verb] his [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | LADY DAVERS : My brother at length has given his consent that you should come and live with me . |
| 2 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 3 | The century since Marx 's death has belied his expectation that advanced industrial society would witness ever sharper polarization between bourgeoisie and proletariat . |
| 4 | The words are inadequate : consilium makes it plain enough what the testator 's own wishes would be , but there is no trust unless he has made his intention that a legal obligation should arise equally clear . |
| 5 | When Grimes steps into the witness box , the veiled string texture and weary cross-rhythms in the bass tell us before he has opened his mouth that here is a man who will not fit into conventional social patterns . |
| 6 | Although Teague has resumed light training , he looks certain to miss England 's match against Fiji on 4 November and has told his club that he does not expect to be fit until the middle of next month . |
| 7 | A senior mining executive has warned his colleagues that in the wake of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro the mining industry is coming under intense scrutiny over its environmental record . |
| 8 | He has tried unsuccessfully to persuade government that it should devote a fixed proportion of either GDP or the defence budget ( which has some logic as an idea , since the Meteorological Office is funded through the Ministry of Defence ) to research into global warming ; and failure in that respect has reinforced his view that governments across the world find inexpensive words preferable to expensive actions . |
| 9 | But he 'd got it coming , and she — she 'd got his word that , when it was all over , she 'd still have her job . |
| 10 | I do n't know what experience he has had to justify his claim that corporal punishment is no deterrent . |
| 11 | If Mr. Bonanza had n't had to change his plans that poor girl would be alive right now . ’ |
| 12 | Moore might well have presented his claim that good , in contrast to horse and various other universals , is simple , as the statement that it is a quality , for there is a sense in which all the universals most naturally called qualities are simple in contrast to other universals , such as forms ( e.g. shapes ) or structures ( e.g.the way in which an army is organized ) . |
| 13 | Had he known the truth it might have made his loss that bit more bearable . ’ |
| 14 | It may have escaped his notice that that text was removed from the negotiations about two months ago . |
| 15 | He would then have to tell his chef that two healthy , innocent and well-balanced hostages were killing themselves because of his idiocy . |
| 16 | And although they shared I.A. Richards 's impatience with the existing chaos of critical theories , and his desire for some scientific order in the study of literature , they would certainly not have endorsed his view that literary theory should be concerned with experience or with value ; nor would they have approved of his recourse to neuro-physiology or psychology as a means of making literary criticism more scientific . |
| 17 | Gilfoyle , 31 , was said to have told his wife that Sandra was going to move into their Wirral home . |
| 18 | Gilfoyle was said to have told his wife that Sandra was going to move into their Wirral home . |
| 19 | Mr Talabani is said to have reassured his hosts that autonomy was the limit of his ambitions . |
| 20 | She had regarded his suggestion that they be put in plastic as a piece of impertinence to a woman of her years . |
| 21 | The Padre , consulted as to the propriety of firing them at the enemy , had given his opinion that they could perfectly well be fired and that they , or any other such popish or Tractarian objects , would very likely wreak terrible havoc . |
| 22 | Needing to borrow £50,000 million this year , Mr Lamont had to promise his creditors that he would put his accounts in order as soon as possible . |
| 23 | Before she and David were married , Beth had secured his promise that he would never probe into her past , and would not pester her with regard to young Richard 's father . |
| 24 | In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust . |
| 25 | Amazingly , that weekend in Harare all those years ago was the foundation upon which Luke had built his belief that she was romantically and sexually involved with Florian . |
| 26 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
| 27 | Auguste had persuaded his pupils that , having missed a lesson this morning owing to the inquest , this afternoon would prove an ideal time to instruct than on the magnificence of the St Pierre or John Dory . |
| 28 | Dr Wyn had told his friends that Lydia could be relied on to say something awful , or to sink , senseless , under the table . |
| 29 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 30 | It was his English tutor who had convinced his uncle that films were an excellent way to learn the language . |