Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , Gedge has since gone in for his usual strict self-criticism . |
| 2 | It is not unknown for barbel to pull a rod into the water with a speed and viciousness that has to be seen to be believed , even when the angler has only glanced away from his rod for a few seconds . |
| 3 | My remarks about the Attorney-General were strong because he has not faced up to his responsibility to enforce the law . |
| 4 | The Llangurig line is a classic in this respect ; much of the damage is due to nature and man has not gone out of his way to remove a monument of the past . |
| 5 | On top of all that Prince Charles , heir to the throne and the man destined to become the Church 's supreme governor , has just split up with his wife and divorce looks likely . |
| 6 | Your client Paul Pry has just set up in his own business selling computers , and hopes to employ several people . |
| 7 | Daniels , the lorry driver , has already appealed successfully against his sentence , having it reduced by three years , but his appeal against conviction was turned down . |
| 8 | John has always gone out of his way to try and persuade similar sufferers that there may be help for them in alternative therapies . |
| 9 | More importantly still , the influential Finance Minister , Pierre Bérégovoy , has repeatedly gone out of his way to express interest in the British proposals , emphasising that the French view is closer to the British than to the German . |
| 10 | Sangster has also fared badly through his involvement with Classic Thoroughbreds , a more recent venture . |
| 11 | David Sykes has also competed here with his other son , Paddy . |
| 12 | ‘ By nature Paul is a quiet , unassuming lad , but this season he has really come out of his shell and his game has improved no end . |
| 13 | ‘ At least Mike has n't run away from his past . |
| 14 | He has n't drifted back to his own place yet , eh ? |
| 15 | He has n't finished yet with his are they on or a finger ? |
| 16 | It was a mark of the esteem in which John Burridge was held at Selhurst Park , both as a goalkeeper and as a showman , that whenever he has subsequently returned here with his later clubs he has invariably been accorded a warm welcome , both from Palace fans and from his former playing colleagues . |
| 17 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 18 | Perhaps he 'd already settled down under his blanket when Berowne arrived . |
| 19 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 20 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 21 | As he spoke , he had already turned abruptly on his heel and was leading her in swift strides across the wide hallway . |
| 22 | The sergeant had already mapped out in his own mind , with an eye to the wind , the speed of the flow and the amount of debris being brought down , the procession of spits , shoals , curves and pools where a heavy piece of flotsam would be likely to cast up , beginning immediately below the village of Moulden , which lay just below the Aurae Phiala enclosure . |
| 23 | The French boy looked up sharply at his father , but the familiar expressionless mask had already settled back on his face . |
| 24 | This is a point which it would be useless to push too far ; the pose of the second figure from the left in the Demoiselles , for instance , was one which Picasso had already used frequently in his earlier work . |
| 25 | He had felt distress and pity for the sufferings he had seen about him , but they had not struck home to his heart as seeing McAllister brought so low had done . |
| 26 | He returned thoughtfully to the Saint Pierre au gratin , only to discover that matters had not progressed well in his absence . |
| 27 | At this point the husband , who had not moved once during his wife 's burial — not even during the long wait for the priest — suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him . |
| 28 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 29 | The Warbutt had not come down from his tower to wish his son farewell , and Bicker was grim and silent with his cloak held up around his mouth and ice crystals forming on it where his breath froze . |
| 30 | Joseph had just stepped out of his room and was pulling the door closed when Patrick came panting up the stairs . |