Example sentences of "have [vb pp] his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will already have been familiar to him , and he will have formed his own conclusions long ago . |
| 2 | He might well have formed his own opinion but he knew that would not bear cross-examination at some later date . |
| 3 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 4 | The answer is not difficult , if we remember that each meeting of the Assembly was different in composition from all others ; personal oratory and ascendancy , not party organization , decided the issues , and that is why the absence of Kimon mattered so much : he would have given his usual speech on the ‘ special relationship ’ with Sparta , urging that nothing be done to the Athenian constitution to which oligarchic Sparta would take mortal offence . |
| 5 | Security Minister Sir John Wheeler , who has inherited responsibility for this cauldron of hatred , must have revised his initial appraisal that the IRA ‘ has already been defeated ’ . |
| 6 | He knew they would be hurrying behind him , might even have heard his running steps on the path or noted , practised woodsmen as they were , the scatter of wood-pigeons that went up in a flurry ahead of him . |
| 7 | She might have resented his calm assumption that she would prefer to holiday in England at another time , but now it seemed nothing would affect her serenity . |
| 8 | For although the chairman of the University Grants Committee , Edward Parkes , may have received his well-earned knighthood at the end of the year — in a batch meanly thin , as usual , on honours for the scientific community — many of the nation 's academics will never see their profession in the same rosy light . |
| 9 | Whatever effects these traumatic events may have had in forming his world view and concerns about military adventurism , they can hardly have limited his intellectual growth . |
| 10 | For their part , Sonnabend agree that Halley has the right to leave them but claim that he should have honoured his verbal agreement to put together the 1991 May show . |
| 11 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 12 | ‘ Pay Homage should have won his last race at Goodwood and he 's been in fine form all year , ’ Ian said . |
| 13 | I wondered for a moment about this strange near-miss , and what a trout might be doing crossing the road , until I saw a fisherman standing aside , who can only have dropped his slippery catch on the roadway and was waiting to recapture it . |
| 14 | Bush should have trusted his own misgivings about attending the dinner , confessing he knew it would be ‘ something sorrowful and sad ’ . |
| 15 | My own belief , which is shared , oddly enough , by the head of the CIA , William Webster , is that sanctions would have eroded his military capacity so much that , given another nine months or so — assuming we has used that period for more flexible diplomacy , which we notably failed to do — then we could either have got him out by negotiation , or we could have promoted a situation inside Iraq in which he could n't fight . |
| 16 | K-9 ( 12 ) , which stars James Belushi , hints at the less than glittering screen career that might have awaited his elder brother , had he lived . |
| 17 | Mr Yeltsin said that by December he would present a new law on forming a government that would have cancelled his special powers . |
| 18 | He might have shed his Lindbergh-like naivete and enthusiasm for simple solutions which made him an easy prey to authoritarianism and the meretricious appeal of Nazis and fascists . |
| 19 | Her anguish must have penetrated his obvious antagonism as , standing back , he gazed down at her , the prepossessing lines of his face softening slightly as a reluctant smile lifted the corners of his mouth . |
| 20 | He was an excellent storyteller and in normal circumstances Loretta would have enjoyed his acerbic comments on his colleagues ' conduct at the meeting . |
| 21 | It was crucial to his remarkable success in winning the nomination of his party ; without that asset it is most unlikely that he would have secured his narrow victory over Gerald Ford , but it was his insistence on remaining an outsider in spirit that limited his accomplishments in office . |
| 22 | Huy was still not sure how he would have answered his own question . |
| 23 | President Truman , a longtime supporter of civil rights — who may have owed his unexpected victory in the close contest of 1948 to black voters in the northern cities — made some progress towards equal status for blacks in the armed forces and in Federal employment . |
| 24 | It was also feared an emergency tracheotomy could have ruined his distinctive voice for good . |
| 25 | Any one of thirty officials inside the building might have noticed his trembling body , or the tiny beads of sweat pricking his brow , and taken him aside for interrogation . |
| 26 | He must have felt his new-found vitality was precarious . |
| 27 | WHEN Newry 's Errol Lutton makes his Ulster senior debut in the inter-provincials next weekend in Dublin he can thank his lucky stars that his club were the first to complete their Senior One fixtures this season … otherwise he would have missed his big chance . |
| 28 | Because clients might not have accepted his African name , he worked under the pseudonym of Peter Mackenzie . |
| 29 | His request could have been investigated more thoroughly , his premises subjected to a search and inventory which would have revealed his blatant lie . |
| 30 | A newspaper report that Lord Glenconner had spent over £500,000 on entertaining the rich and famous at his 60th birthday party a few years ago , must have made his hard-working forebears turn in their graves . |