Example sentences of "his [noun sg] had [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His Mum had left him a note on the kitchen table . |
| 3 | His clemency had earned him the regard of the West and would , surely , last until Twelfth Night . |
| 4 | And Reynolds said that the fight to clear his name had made him a stronger person . |
| 5 | His father had given him a plentiful supply of money and there was considerable justification for the war . |
| 6 | Kit was a lessee of the Lord Clovelly 's company , his daughter had brought him a dower of part shares in its wealth , as a reward for a feat of arms unrivalled in the territory . |
| 7 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 8 | He longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |