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Example sentences of "who his " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	For anyone who his felt the sensation of mystical tears , this idea must surely be one of the most beautiful of all mysticism .
2	‘ We have no idea who his father was and his mother , while not actually wild , was roaming around the compound for weeks , ’ Dave said .
3	Only June and Ethel knew who his father was and now they were both gone and they had not told anyone .
4	He will never lose sight of who his pupils are , what they can and can not be expected to take for granted .
5	The Apostle Peter wrote concerning Jesus ‘ Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree . ’
6	Simon must never doubt who his son is .
7	‘ I took mine off , the day I found out who his mistress really was … ’
8	He had wondered who his ill-wishers had been .
9	Peter Dawson had , however , asked who his father was , and had then inquired if the family was any relation to Mr Heinrich Stych , who used to teach in Tollemarche Public School .
10	He was a very nice young man and did bear some small resemblance to me which I supposed was why his mother , perhaps not knowing who his father was , or knowing but having been abandoned by him , had woven this fantasy about a familiar figure from the television screen .
11	When asked who his goalkeeping hero was , he replied : ‘ Pat Jennings … but I bet you were hoping it was Lev Yashin . ’
12	He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were .
13	Find out who his business contacts and friends are and what she thinks of them , assuming , of course , that she 's ever met any of them .
14	On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’
15	I 've often wondered lately who his men friends were .
16	Noah was a charity-boy , but not a workhouse orphan ; he at least knew who his parents were .
17	We know who his father was , my second cousin , Gervaise Harvey , but no one has ever revealed the name of Harry 's mother .
18	Nizan 's narrative is both an indictment of the illusions of the French petty bourgeoisie in a phase of rapid capitalist industrial expansion , and an attempt to understand precisely who his father was , an attempt to explain the reasons underlying the failure of his father 's life .
19	It was n't easy to find out who his tutor was supposed to be .
20	The police were a tolerant body and took the view that a man could n't help who his father was .
21	It was a full half minute before he turned his head to see who his next potential customer might be .
22	do you know who his mother is ? ’
23	But who his father is — ’ Again the slight shrug of the shoulders .
24	No one ever discovered who his parents had been .
25	This Dickens had the right idea after all , no matter who his anonymous friend might be .
26	It 's almost as if , ’ he paused , ‘ the murderer wanted to disguise who his victims were .
27	‘ Do we know who his friends were or whether he had any enemies ? ’
28	This way a man may always read who is his friend and who his enemy . ’
29	It is interesting to ask whether the qualities Spenser conferred on the Irish , making them the hostile outsiders who needed to be suppressed but who his texts acknowledge to be also a lurking part of the civilised English , are still part of current English imaginative experience .
30	At home , he had quelled the murmurings of those who wanted a clear sign of what the regime 's institutional future was to be , without committing himself to a date for the return of a monarch to the leadership of the state , and without specifying who his successor would be .