Example sentences of "his [noun sg] have [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what support his Department has given to the Devon and Cornwall development company . |
| 2 | However , his action has led to the scrapping of After Dark , a ‘ show ’ which has nothing to recommend it . |
| 3 | At first Buchan thought he was joking , and had to telephone his manager to get confirmation that his club had agreed to the transfer . |
| 4 | His gaze had contracted to the merest topaz thread in a face where sudden bleakness polished his hard cheekbones to a dull , luminescent ivory . |
| 5 | For an instant , his gaze had shifted to the bedside cabinet , where their whisky glasses stood beneath the lamp . |
| 6 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 7 | She saw Ross Aldridge , whom she knew slightly from when he 'd processed her shotgun licence application , and wondered for a moment if the rumour was true about how he and his wife had moved to the area a few months after their baby had died . |
| 8 | ‘ His wife 's gone to the cinema , ’ someone said . |
| 9 | In the confusion his greatcoat had slipped to the floor , where it lay unnoticed by all but the ever-watchful child . |
| 10 | The meal was finished , his father had returned to the newspaper , rather deflated at his family 's lack of appreciation of his vice-presidency , and his mother had finished her ice cream and was rising from the table . |
| 11 | The er his report has gone to the policy group it 's been talke discussed by them and it now goes to the policy advisory group . |
| 12 | Alexei found himself recalling events from his childhood — the dimly understood shifts of influence from one family to another , his mother the niece of the Emperor , his father a commoner and always absent on the Imperial service — and almost before he was aware of it his hand had risen to the gold caste mark on his cheek . |