Example sentences of "his [noun] have [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Mum had acted like this before , all secretive , he remembered now , when they 'd taken him to choose his bike , his last birthday . |
| 2 | He was one of their most brilliant scientists , his research having led to some of Algox' bestselling products . |
| 3 | As Mr Ryan O'Neal , the thespian , approaches middle age , his weight has increased to some 15 stones . |
| 4 | And , at the end of this act we are shown how his ambition has led to another theme , that of appearance and reality , where Macbeth is told by his wife to conceal his thoughts and appear to his guests to be the perfect host whereas he is really supposed to wait for the time to kill the king . |
| 5 | Though his work has met with some scepticism in the medical community , Medenica is respected in South Carolina . |
| 6 | His job had turned into such a jest over the last few weeks that the thought of putting on his uniform , that humiliatingly naval-looking , obviously non-sea-going uniform , made him stiff with bashfulness . |
| 7 | His wife had disapproved of this development at first — he suspected that she had paired off Damien and Clare in her mind — but when it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic , and when he started to go to Mass again , she had become favourably disposed to the idea of their going out together . |
| 8 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 9 | Mr Briggs and his keeper have carried out most of the work over the last 30 years with help from an apprentice , part time estate workers and contractors . |
| 10 | Lord Hugh Cecil doubted if his father had dealt in such things but suspected " that both Asquith and A. ) . |
| 11 | His father had provided for this title to pass to Charles if his brother inherited the earldom of Arundel ; but when this occurred in 1677 Henry refused to give up the title , and Charles took the case to Chancery , in 1682 obtaining a celebrated decision in his favour by Heneage Finch , first Earl of Nottingham [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | He and his aunt have contrived with some skill to avoid their neighbours ’ cutlets for the last five years . |
| 13 | He had burned his bridges in Hollywood and took off for the seclusion of Taos to hide away , his life having come to another dead end , cursed by his own self-destructiveness and sheer bad luck . |
| 14 | Intikhab Alam , Pakistan 's cricket manager , when asked , within an hour of the incident , why certain of his players had reacted in this way , replied that frustration had built up . |
| 15 | Eric Zeisl ( 1905–59 ) was yet another of the stream of Austrian composers who fled before the jaws of Hitler 's army , though his music has met with less acclaim than that of many of his fellow refugees . |
| 16 | Well I told you , the his arms had gone like that . |
| 17 | He spoke of the affection he and his uncle had had for each other and what a marvellous counsellor he had been . |
| 18 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 19 | Of course , Mr McGibbon would have been delighted if his son had turned into another Stephen Roche . |
| 20 | Charles had been moved early on by the plight of disadvantaged young people and much of his energy had gone into that . |
| 21 | Will the Minister recognise that some of the benefits that he announced this afternoon are the result of cross-subsidy from the dirty , sleazy pornographic phone calls that he and his colleagues have encouraged for some time ? |
| 22 | That is precisely the kind of distortions and misleading implications that he and his party have placed upon this exercise throughout the consultation process , which have led to so many people misunderstanding what it is all about . |
| 23 | , ( Arthur ) Oswald ( 1868–1939 ) , journalist and heraldist , was born 3 January 1868 in London , where his family had lived for many generations , the only child of Henry Stracey Barron ( 1838–1918 ) , engineer in Constantinople , and his wife Harriet Marshall ( 1836–1918 ) . |
| 24 | He is able to talk man to man with the Chartist delegates , in the confidence that his family has worked through many generations for the common good — building churches and bridges , making roads , digging mines , planting trees , and draining marshland . |
| 25 | It may be justified where : ( i ) the original factors leading to registration no longer apply ; ( ii ) the child and his family have moved to another area ( and responsibility for the case has been transferred to another authority ) ; ( iii ) the child has reached the age of 18 years or married ; or ( iv ) the child has died ( para 6.45 ) . |
| 26 | Mr Raynor asks if this column can help in identifying the origin of this poster which his family have owned for many years — doubtless readers can help ! |