Example sentences of "his [noun] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought of the cabin up the creek to which his sister had withdrawn at his urging , and he turned to find the track , willing himself to control his horror , to keep moving nimbly and stealthily as if he did not feel unstrung . |
| 2 | His sister had lived in the big gloomy house for such a little time . |
| 3 | Stapleton told me that he and his sister had lived in Devonshire for only two years . |
| 4 | Ted was having trouble picking out a shirt ; his sister had given him a couple of new ones last Christmas , but this was the first time that he 'd really had to study them with regard to presentability . |
| 5 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 6 | The groans and cries of his sister had broken his heart . |
| 7 | It was well over a year since his sister had married Dunbar and gone off to the West Indies , where , according to her spasmodic letters , she was having ‘ an utterly marvellous ’ time . |
| 8 | Although his sister was now gravely ill he had to return to London but , on the voyage back , he was again afflicted with tachycardia and when the ship docked at Southampton he was rushed to hospital in London ; while recovering there , he learned that his sister had died . |
| 9 | We heard from Mr Edgar that his sister had died , and that he was returning soon with his young nephew . |
| 10 | Anne Butler was dispatched to collect a policeman , and Dave Titcombe went to Eastleech to see if his sister had arrived . |
| 11 | His sister had come over with her family from the next valley and was standing just behind him ; Shaun had flown home as well , a taller , broader Wayne-that-might-have-been , but he had n't yet come out of the church . |
| 12 | His sister had told him they did n't really exist , and he recalled the bitter disappointment . |
| 13 | She lay still , quaking a little to start with , at the thought of him sitting down there , angrily riddling the fire as if he were punishing it because his sister had left him , and then she began to feel angry herself . |
| 14 | He began to tidy the muddle , moving with the same economic efficiency his sister had shown . |
| 15 | The financial savings made possible by Sandys ’ Reformation had been gradually whittled away by escalating equipment costs , and by the need to provide the strategic mobility that his policies had assumed , but which had been inadequately provided for in his costings . |
| 16 | Why does he just sit there and do absolutely nothing to combat the recession that his policies have caused ? |
| 17 | Thomas Cartwright , the Elizabethan Presbyterian , declared on one occasion that ‘ heaps ’ of his contemporaries had cast aside the old religion without discovering the new , and the minister Josias Nichols complained in 1602 that only one in ten of the inhabitants of a Kentish parish with 400 communicants knew the basics of Protestant doctrine . |
| 18 | And if so , would he and his contemporaries have recognised that in pursuing this consistency he was doing science , not art ? |
| 19 | But Gordillo and his contemporaries have had to come to terms with it the hard way , following directly in its path . |
| 20 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 21 | James I was declared by his contemporaries to have died of it , and his victim Sir Walter Ralegh , awaiting execution in the Tower , prayed that he would not be seized by a fit of ague on the scaffold , lest his enemies should proclaim that he had met his death shivering with fear . |
| 22 | When the Birds of Australia was finally completed in June 1848 , Gould generously and justly acknowledge the vital role his amanuensis had played in running the entire business while he was away . |
| 23 | Maxim was sure his amble had become a rigid march , but he kept going . |
| 24 | His referendum had caused great uncertainty . |
| 25 | Parliamentary criticisms of Prime Minister René Préval and threats to force his resignation had precipitated angry demonstrations by Préval 's supporters , over 2,000 of whom had gathered outside the parliament building in the capital , Port-au-Prince . |
| 26 | Once the patient is inside the ward several dimensions of his communicating have changed , for example the social dimensions . |
| 27 | In July 1989 an Interior Ministry official said that his directorate had exposed 400,000 economic crimes since January 1988 and had confiscated assets worth 100,000,000 roubles . |
| 28 | Other Lancashire businessmen watching his progress had come to respect him as a red-hot entrepreneur and ruthless opponent in business dealings , for whom profit was the consideration that overrode every other . |
| 29 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
| 30 | But when they turned him over there was a sound like a fart and all his insides had sicked out , bits that were n't meant to be seen and which God accordingly had n't bothered to finish off like the rest . |