Example sentences of "have [vb pp] his [noun pl] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has found his hands for him , and fitted them freshly at the wrists |
| 2 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 3 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 4 | Having washed his hands of her , her GP expressed the view that her visit to the Centre was both a waste of money and time . |
| 5 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 6 | For when the Battle of the Somme broke out in July , Boelcke — having persuaded his seniors of his indispensability at the front — accounted for fiftyone planes with his ‘ Flying Circus ’ , of which twenty were his own personal bag . |
| 7 | Ceauşescu must have amused his colleagues with his remarks ‘ strongly in favour of the acceptance of free will ’ and his thought that ‘ the withering away of the State would be very welcome though he did n't quite see the withering away of the [ Communist ] Party ! ’ |
| 8 | Neither would she tell him that half her anger was against herself because of her delayed reaction to his first humiliating kiss which must have hardened his suspicions of her . |
| 9 | For years he had refused , as it would have upset his hens in their rough pasture . |
| 10 | WALTER SMITH will take his injury-ravaged squad out to lunch today aware that , in the present , stricken climate at Ibrox , food poisoning is one of the few afflictions not to have hit his players before their European Champions League tie with FC Brugge on Wednesday , writes Hugh Keevins . |
| 11 | Although Valentin seems to have passed his exams by his own efforts ( though no doubt crammed by special tutors ) and achieved a respectable degree at Imperial College , London , his sister and brother followed their mother 's educational model more closely . |
| 12 | The Bishop , reading Peter 's thoughts , would have liked to have put his arms around him , would have liked to have said , I can not make you Archdeacon because you have insufficient judgement and experience , but you are a good priest , a conscientious priest , and I am wretched to disappoint you . |
| 13 | And , to Folly 's surprise and delight , he seemed to have planned his examples with her in mind . |
| 14 | He had written an editorial in the PDS newspaper , Sopi , claiming that Diouf had relinquished his powers to his senior aide , Jean Collin [ for whose dismissal in March see p. 37366 ] . |
| 15 | On his last leave before sailing he had said his goodbyes to his mother and gone out but , stopping at the gate , turned and gone back in again , leaving with her his signet ring and pocket watch . |
| 16 | I 've got his diaries in my room ; he kept a diary from the age of thirteen . ’ |
| 17 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 18 | He had played his cassettes to her and she had begun to understand what he had lost . |
| 19 | It was a pity , that ; he would have liked to have heard her groan again , perhaps even to cry out as she had that night when The Man had played his games with her . |
| 20 | With a massive effort she tried to fight him off , but he had locked his hands behind her neck , and all her efforts to squirm out of his grasp were useless . |
| 21 | He had stuck his hands in his trouser pockets and was looking straight ahead , his eyes level . |
| 22 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 23 | Yesterday when he had imprinted his lips on her mouth she had had no foretaste of what a deliberate kiss of his could be like . |
| 24 | He had spoken his words with his habitual grim-faced detachment and still did n't turn to look at her . |
| 25 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 26 | Some months later it dawned on me that he had put his hands on my head and what this implied ! |
| 27 | Vern had put his hands over his ears . |
| 28 | She had lost count of the number of times she had slapped his hands from her body whenever he waylaid her outside . |
| 29 | Naturally , he had speculated about Celia 's upbringing , but he had kept his speculations to himself . |
| 30 | But the T'ang had kept his thoughts to himself about the killing . |