Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 2 | How could his enthusiasm not have been aroused by so inspiring a personality ? |
| 3 | His progress since has been steady , his number of rides has increased . |
| 4 | However , hopes that defender Mark Ogley would make his debut today have been dashed due to ‘ contractual complications ’ over his move from Aldershot . |
| 5 | But the cost of his doing so has been revealed in all its starkness in the unseemly scramble for the succession that has followed his departure . |
| 6 | His sensory feedback had not informed him that this was happening even though the tension needed to throw his head back had been tremendous . |
| 7 | This rather contradicts his claim never to have been an IRA member . |
| 8 | His life here has been one long series of decisions taken with difficulty , of crises resolved . |
| 9 | Since he first published his equations there has been a considerable literature developed which is devoted to expanding and refining this algebraic approach , but it was Bukharin who helped lay the foundation for this later work . |
| 10 | His aspiration then had been to inject a " Schopenhauerian seriousness " into his subject , and the ideal had never been abandoned . |