Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] his [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm glad to hear that , Wilko has proved during his first 3 years that he is capable of getting the best out of players individually and as a team . |
| 3 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 4 | Also about this time Leopold compiled a list entitled ‘ Verzeichniss alles desjenigen was dieser 12jährige Knab seit seinem 7tem Jahre componiert , und in originali kann aufgezeiget werden ’ — [ List of everything that this 12-year old boy has composed since his 7th year , and can be exhibited in the originals ] ( 11 ) , and this may be a draft or copy of a document which accompanied the petition to Emperor Joseph II . |
| 5 | Denis Cannan 's Dear Daddy ( 1976 ) , again , another successful stage comedy , tells of a virtuous middle-aged family man whose life is triumphantly self-organised down to its last petty details — exactly one-third of a bottle of wine at dinner every evening — until the comfortable domestic order he has created in his second marriage turns into an object of irrational despair to those around him ; and when his first wife , ruined by alcohol , abruptly re-enters his world , he is forced to accept a share of deferred responsibility for the wreckage of her life . |
| 6 | Former Oxford Cheetah skipper , Hans Nielson has qualified for his 14th world speedway final , after winning his semi in Italy . |
| 7 | He rubbed it between his fingers , staring with admiration , then sank , cross-legged , near my chair , the way he 'd done on his first night . |
| 8 | It was advertising mail , like most of that which he 'd opened on his first visit and later burned in the forest . |
| 9 | He had been twenty-one when he died of leukaemia , and I had had to help with his last offices and was then sent to escort his body to the mortuary . |
| 10 | Since then he 's had to live through his first wife being run over and his second screen love , unconvincing animal righter and hippie chick Kerry Bishop , being shot dead by illegal duck hunters . |
| 11 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 12 | His conduct of the crisis could be seen as a great achievement , yet something so negative and distasteful was not what he would have wished for his last service . |
| 13 | Felix may have died in his seventeenth year or Thomas in his fifth . |
| 14 | The attribution of a thirty-year reign to Penda in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 626 ) , however , would indicate an accession in 625 ( reckoning back from 655 ) or ( if Penda was thought of as having died in his thirtieth regnal year ) 626 . |
| 15 | As this review was going the House of Lords has permitted the citation of Hansard ; Mr Bennion will have to start on his next edition . |
| 16 | Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post . |
| 17 | Having learned from his first assignment that the general effectively controlled the hostage situation in Beirut , Coleman now came to realize that , in a broader frame but in the same sense , Kenaan also controlled the nature and scope of narco-terrorism itself — ; or , at any rate , could do so when it suited President Assad 's purpose . |
| 18 | Switching codes holds no fears for Sillars Stalker who , having topped off his last jumping campaign with a four-timer , filled in time during the summer , scoring three times on the Flat . |
| 19 | Previously , 6 January had been celebrated as the Epiphany , or anniversary of Christ 's baptism , which was believed to have occurred on his thirtieth birthday . |
| 20 | One of the first things Tolkien did after his return to Oxford in 1925 was to set up an Icelandic reading group such as he had enjoyed during his last job , as Professor of English at Leeds . |
| 21 | The 1979 season was even worse : Niki 's four points were only double those he had earned in his first FI year seven seasons before . |
| 22 | A letter explained that it was the pictures Simon had owned before his second marriage and which by rights belonged now to his daughter . |
| 23 | In 1906 , he married a widow he had met on his first Australian tour in 1887–88 , and after becoming secretary to Neasden Golf Club , he took £300-a-year sinecure as secretary of Queen 's Club , for his stockbroking activities had not flourished . |
| 24 | He met Agnes , the brazen lady-in-waiting , whom he had met on his last visit to Kinghorn . |
| 25 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 26 | ‘ Stop messing about , ’ Rosie had said at his first attempt . |
| 27 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 28 | He noticed that hundreds of mushrooms had sprouted since his last visit , some as large as saucers . |
| 29 | As he waited for the executioner , he was dressed in the blue suit that he had worn on his last public appearance . |
| 30 | Of the drought he had experienced on his last visit , Gould wrote that , ’ It is easier for the imagination to conceive than the pen to depict the horrors of so dreadful a visitation . ’ |