Example sentences of "his [noun] have [been] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child imitated the sipping movements his sister had been schooled by Tommaso to make at the cafe , like a small bird at a fountain . |
| 2 | He explained to the desk sergeant that he was worried that his sister had been murdered by her husband , Joseph Shill . |
| 3 | The copious footnotes to the recipes in this book were believed by his contemporaries to have been written by Sir Walter Scott . |
| 4 | His embalmed body was carried to Dunfermline for burial , but at his own request his heart had been removed by a trusted comrade-in-arms , Sir James Douglas , to be taken on Crusade . |
| 5 | For his heart had been taken by the sight of Neva , as hers with him , and he had followed her . |
| 6 | Charles , who was in his late-thirties , found celibacy a trial ; his fancy had been caught by Amaranth Wilikins . |
| 7 | Significantly , after the mention that his faith had been counted by God as righteousness , Abraham 's first recorded words were ‘ O Lord God , how can I be sure ? ’ |
| 8 | This was a time of panic , in which one farmer alleged that a thousand of his sheep had been killed by these parrots ; but it is now known that they rarely kill sheep . |
| 9 | ( Traore had appeared in court on June 6 , charged with being an accomplice in the murder of demonstrators killed in the events leading to his overthrow , but his trial had been deferred by the court to an unspecified date . ) |
| 10 | At the end , Cain concludes that his banishment has been caused by his refusal to sink his identity into a higher form . |
| 11 | Diamonds Galore 's jockey Aaron Gryder could hardly believe that his horse had been murdered by a youngster . |
| 12 | In reality , it was part of a wider problem , perhaps best expressed in the Quadrilogue invectif of the Norman , Alain Chartier , written in 1422 when his homeland had been overrun by the English . |
| 13 | Mr Abdul Rehman , the local polling agent for Janata Dal , told how his supporters had been attacked by a marauding band of Congress workers , some of them with guns . |
| 14 | But many of his supporters have been angered by the military coalition 's confiscations of weapons and by diminished opportunities to loot and extort since the first marines came ashore on 9 December . |
| 15 | His administration has been scolded by the Interior Department for its involvement in a complicated deal involving an aluminium plant and a company with ties to Mr Marc Rich , a businessman whose taxes and trading have sometimes aroused the interest of American authorities . |
| 16 | If , as was clear from press coverage of the recent retrospective at the Hayward , the art critical establishment is still sniffily disparaging of Magritte 's achievement , this can at least partly be attributed to the disturbing facility with which his images have been appropriated by advertisers and recycled as mere media commonplaces . |
| 17 | Shortly before Sikes 's death in 1803 his hydrometer had been adopted by the government excise department for revenue purposes . |
| 18 | A bright confidence at his eyes had been replaced by something harsher . |
| 19 | If a judge has slept badly , has had an indigestible breakfast , tripped over the cat , has been roundly abused by his wife and scolded by his children , or if his mind has been distracted by the children 's school reports , a narrow defeat at a curling match or whatever , he may be temporarily off form . |
| 20 | ‘ It worked for me , ’ Feherty said , confessing that he had not seen the back nine of the course before because his practice had been restricted by bad light . |
| 21 | SIR , — Successful attempts at inducing pregnancies in women after menopause have prompted a response from a higher authority , who feels that publication of His work has been overlooked by modern authors . |
| 22 | His mood has been set by what he has witnessed . |
| 23 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 24 | His home has been firebombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 25 | His home has been attacked by animal rights activists in the past but now his farm is in the hands of managers and he says he 's paid his price . |
| 26 | But from the pope 's point of view the boundaries of his influence had been extended by the coronation of Johannitsa and the influence of the patriarch of Constantinople and the Greek Church decreased . |
| 27 | ‘ The fact that his escape had been organized by the SS … |
| 28 | In retirement , Muccio recalled that Rhee was very intelligent , determined and assertive ; he had reached the top at a late age and was too set in his ways , his attitude having been determined by his lengthy period in exile , amid the seemingly forlorn struggle to save Korea from Japanese colonialism . |
| 29 | His body had been damaged by some long distant war . |
| 30 | His opinion had been reinforced by the fact that she had agreed to sail with Clive . |