Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had moved from his shoulder , so he got up and retrieved my hat . |
| 2 | This included one of the most severe letters I had seen from his pen . |
| 3 | Recalling what I had glimpsed of his relationships with both Henry Clerval and Elizabeth , it occurred to me that this conflict probably characterized all his friendships . |
| 4 | Mr. Reilly remarked of Mr William Paul , a leading member of the society , that he ‘ exceeded anyone I had known in his spirit and power in prayer ; and oh , how rich and copious were his quotations from scripture and our hymns ’ . |
| 5 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
| 6 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 7 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |
| 8 | Yes I 've phoned and I 've written three times and I 've written to his mother our official letter , official no headed notepaper she 's not there , she works as a nurse does n't she ? |
| 9 | I 've brought along his guest . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In particular , I 've learned from his ability to man-manage . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've talked to his particular friends . |
| 12 | I 've talked to his personal clerk . |
| 13 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 14 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 15 | I feel that some sort of ceremony of blessing of the place may be in order , now that the remains have been given a proper burial , and I have asked for his opinion . |
| 16 | Mr. Miller , of whom I must always retain the highest sense , both for the Knowledge I have received from his Labours , and more particularly that Friendship and Communicativeness with which he always treated me , was blessed with a more favourable Situation in the progress of his Experiments , by enjoying the kind Influence of the Sun ( the parent of Vegetation ) in so high a Degree as to have the Vine in full ripeness on the natural Wall , without the assistance of Art ; and could we all experience the same Felicity , I need not have communicated my Observations or my Countrymen wanted an other Tutor … |
| 17 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 18 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I have agreed with his owner to let him run at Newbury because they have had a lot of rain down south . ’ |
| 20 | I have come on his behalf to celebrate the day . ’ |
| 21 | While there seems to be no reason to doubt the account to this point in Molla Yegan 's career , a question is raised about Taskopruzade 's statement that he did not again hold office by a note of Molla Yegan 's ( the only example I have found of his signature ) appearing on a page of the dated 839/1435–6 , of Isa Bey , the son of Bayezid Pasa , containing the signatures of a number of notable scholars of the fifteenth century : the page , which has been reproduced in facsimile by Unver , seems indeed almost to have become an autograph book for leading scholars of the period . |
| 22 | But before I talk about whether I should use that discretion , I should like to say that , as my hon. Friend said , I have known about his concern about the Axminster practice virtually since I arrived in the Department of Health 18 months ago . |
| 23 | It has always been I who have calmed her , though sometimes the Sweeper has come in the evening and stood for a while at her cage and she has calmed in his good presence . |
| 24 | She will have spent the last 30 years of their marriage sitting in the passenger seat of the car which she is still unable to drive , disappearing into the kitchen when his climbing friends call round for a beer , and laughing dutifully at his mountain anecdotes over a dinner she has made for his boss . |
| 25 | Binchy 's father , a lawyer , had warned her never to put anyone real into her fiction , and she has stuck to his advice with only minor deviations : Benny in Circle of Friends was in part a self-portrait — a safe enough liberty ; and a mean friend of her mother found her way , disguised , into The Lilac Bus . |
| 26 | He also told her about what she 'd done to his balls . |
| 27 | Somehow she 'd crept through his defences without him realising . |
| 28 | ‘ I can see it upsets you , ’ he said softly , and she was afraid to look at him , afraid to see again what she imagined she 'd seen in his eyes . |
| 29 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 30 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |