Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] to his [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But the behaviour of Reverend Prentice has only added to his anguish .
2 But success has not gone to his head .
3 Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause .
4 The Rev Bill Harper has championed the cause of the 260 pensioners involved , but is disappointed that the Prime Minister has not replied to his letter pleading for help .
5 Rev Bill Harper , from Richmond , has championed the cause of the 260 pensioners in doomed homes but is disappointed the Prime Minister has not replied to his letter .
6 Like my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon , before considering trust status may I refer to what has already happened to his constituents and to all the other residents in the Basildon and Thurrock health authority .
7 I believe firmly that John McEnroe is not lying when he says he sees the small print on a tennis ball , and Jackie himself has often referred to his vision as a paramount essential in driving .
8 His knowledge in the improving of ground , it seems has now redounded to his disadvantage .
9 Spiking of losses Colin Webley , the club kipper has now returned to his favorit posishun behind the T-counter .
10 His growing fame has n't gone to his head yet , though .
11 He 's out tonight and has n't responded to his pager yet .
12 He must have practically sprinted to his house , grabbed the bottle and glasses and sprinted back again .
13 h he 's got a , he 's coming down from Edinburgh and he wants to call in and see me about something and I do n't know what because I 've only spoken to his secretary .
14 Hari had already got to his feet and little by little was becoming animated again .
15 But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey .
16 After undergoing medical tests in Australia , Lini returned to work on June 14 and , on June 27 , dismissed four ministers who had not acceded to his loyalty pledge .
17 His life was meaningless without Coleen , she had not replied to his entreaties so he would end it all .
18 Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate .
19 The words ‘ I love you ’ just uttered by Ludens to Irina , had not come to his lips entirely by accident .
20 While Paddy Mayne and his men were busily raiding , Stirling had finally succumbed to his desert sores and had been hospitalized in Cairo .
21 It was a good thing he had finally come to his senses and realized it for himself .
22 He had finally settled to his fate : socialist entrepreneur of the grand scale .
23 Barry Glenn , assistant manager at Perry 's Brasserie in Darlington , had just returned to his home in Harris Street on Sunday night when a raider struck .
24 He had just returned to his £12,000-a-year job after five months off with depression , the London tribunal heard .
25 He had just returned to his Laurel Road home from school yesterday afternoon when the tragedy happened .
26 In fact , it had just added to his burdens .
27 I 've already talked to his manager , Barry Hearn , and we believe Herbie has earned his right to challenge Lennox .
28 He had hardly got to his feet when there was a muffled explosion from Sid 's trench , followed by Sid catapulting out from the entrance , his head a mass of flames .
29 He had always pretended to his employer that he did n't .
30 Although the family was now impoverished and the estate sold Lord Dungannon was bringing up his considerable family in a modest villa in Bayswater — the boy had still gone to his father 's school .
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