Example sentences of "[conj] have his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or had his horse gone lame , cast a shoe ? |
| 2 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 3 | Was it her imagination or had his grip on her shoulder grown less tight ? |
| 4 | If he disagrees with any part he can have it rectified or removed by agreement or have his dissent recorded and his own version put alongside . |
| 5 | ‘ Or have his mind made up for him . ’ |
| 6 | Certainly the taste for parody has n't deserted him ( witness the piano pieces in homage to Scarlatti , Medtner , Alkan , late Liszt et al ) ; nor has his taste for rum titles ( such as the choral work Oil or petrol Marks on a Wet Road are Sometimes held to be Spots where a Rainbow Stood ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Are you the chap that has his bike ? ’ |
| 9 | Nothing means more to your brother than having his own sodding way . ’ |
| 10 | A man who is working for Britain and doing it brilliantly , deserves better than to have his income support allowance stopped . |
| 11 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 12 | His manure was not sold ( as Red Rum 's had been ) , nor had his exploits been celebrated in song ( as was the case with Arkle , Red Rum and Dawn Run ) , but his fans were not sold short : there were books ( three ) , video tapes ( two ) , countless portraits , a white rocking horse called ‘ Dessie ’ , sculptures and figurines ( some of which actually bore a resemblance to the horse ) , an official fan club , and even a recorded phone message on which Desert Orchid 's part-owner Richard Burridge would update worshippers on the well-being of their idol . |
| 13 | Upper Gumtree 's trainer had n't made the journey from Australia , and nor had his usual jockey : Canadian substitutes had been found . |
| 14 | Few of his Frome ancestors had ever been so lucky , and nor had his father ; if death or disease did not rob a 19th-century artisan of his earning power , he had , as we see , the luxury of earning more than he needed to spend . |
| 15 | Nor had his optimism , which was a relief to me as , being a Slav , I am by nature distinctly pessimistic . |
| 16 | Nor had his manner . |
| 17 | Nor had his management team , he felt , been complete until that bridging appointment had been made ( I.M. Weir , conversation , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | Chernov placed less emphasis on the peculiar virtues of the peasant commune than had his populist predecessors , and sought to integrate the development of urban capitalism and Marx 's insights into his neo-populist programme . |
| 19 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 20 | He also fancied himself as an inventor — a pastime that had his mother caught between maternal pride and an almost uncontrollable urge to murder him . |
| 21 | He always felt that had his mother received timely care and proper medication , she just might have lived . |
| 22 | We still consider that we are one of the top amateur installers in the country as we were only beaten by a chap that had his system professional installed , yes Mr Mega Bucks . |
| 23 | But others would claim with equal sincerity that Mr Gorbachev is a pragmatic leader who is giving the reconstruction of the Russian economy a greater degree of priority than have his predecessors . |
| 24 | His hand cradled hers on the coverlet and he studied each wasted finger , rather than have his face read . |
| 25 | Rather than have his son and his wife Anne endure the desert country , he found them a rented villa in Malta . |
| 26 | That 's twice with the chief , thought Rex , who rather than have his head mashed by a slamming door , put his boot against it and offered a mighty kick . |
| 27 | ‘ There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still . ’ |
| 28 | The weather can upset the best laid plans , but the man who is ahead on his work and has his equipment ready in good order can take quick advantage of short spells of good weather and keep his losses to the minimum . |
| 29 | MORE HONEST than the above but just as romantic , albeit after Hemingway rather than Erich Segal , this finds Peckinpah surveying the carnage of the Mexican Revolution and has his heroes — William Holden , Ernest Borgnine , Warren Oates , Ben Johnson — go out in an authentic apotheosis , a slow-motion orgy of mass-destruction even more trippily appealing than the wryness of Butch and Sundance . |
| 30 | Floyd , who has just finished filming in the Far East and has his autobiography and a cookery book in the pipeline , plus a new TV series , dreams of getting away from it all . |