Example sentences of "his [noun sg] have [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His hospice had to be ‘ completely approachable ’ and this partly led to his choice of site in the centre of Aberdeen where it fits comfortably into a hollow in the hillside .
2 Exchanging one kind of social and economic brutalism for another is not what Havel and his kind have in mind , nor do such prescriptions fit the democratic habit of the Czech temperament , formed long before communism 's arrival to power .
3 Perhaps unnerved by the suddenness of his summons to the Prime Minister and the vigour of Palmerston 's attack , Scott felt that his case had to be presented in a ‘ more consecutive manner ’ , and on 23rd July , 1859 , he wrote a long letter to Palmerston explaining how much effort he had put into the design and what a loss it would be to the country if it was not adopted .
4 Nowadays his case had to be heard within a given time .
5 A debtor swearing an affidavit that he had resigned his all would not wipe away the claim his creditor had on him .
6 His breathing has on occasion to be assisted by the administration of oxygen .
7 She lived to regret what she regarded as her weakness , for the child 's fate was to be so terrible that his existence had to be denied in her own mind .
8 All evils have to be dealt with ; nothing happens by accident ; every occurrence that threatens his existence has to be explained .
9 His murder had to be linked to Tatyana 's suicide , the poisoning of her son and the betrayal of the father .
10 And then he has a study that has a similar wall of reference set of shelves and then I guess that maybe his bedroom has of this , but it 's erm and such a nice guy , a pleasant kind of man .
11 Those of us dropping into Dunedin with a touring international or provincial team could usually rely , if things had not gone well for Otago , on Mains later proclaiming that his side had in some way been unfairly treated either by fate or the referee .
12 His mind had at last found its way back to its usual cast when he heard Sara 's friend talking to her .
13 They were how his thinking had to be .
14 Even his drinking had to be packaged as an aesthetic experience .
15 The club 's original application to the American authorities for his transfer had to be resubmitted and clearance has not yet arrived .
16 His invoker had of course been Joshua Godolphin , and he 'd commanded Dowd to serve his line until the end of time .
17 The fingers of one hand were tapping frenziedly against the palm of the other , as if all the excitement in his body had to be expressed through the movements of one set of digits .
18 And he was , he had an unfortunate death , because he he he his body was buried in the little churchyard near to the village where he had been brought up , and he 'd no sooner been buried , than they decided to run a road through , or , erm , something , so his body had to be unearthed and moved somewhere else , and it was n't until nineteen sixteen , that the body erm , was taken out and was taken to Paris , and restored in the er , where so many other famous people erm , do have their tombs and their remembrances .
19 When the burning heat in his body had at last broken , she had concentrated on his arm , washing the wound constantly by setting a bowl outside to catch the clean rainwater and then replacing it with the pail , changing the two receptacles again and again .
20 Alexander started to examine the effects that shortening and lengthening of his body had on his voice .
21 Fair enough he may have had a very good reason for doing so but I thought that that would have been a typical apack erm he did say well you know I just want to run it by him , you know , just to make sure but you , you still needed to know why he thought that his accountant had to be involved .
22 Secretions which block or threaten to block his airway have to be removed by suction .
23 Certain conduct may , rather than effect a variation of the agreement generally , have the effect of creating an estoppel in a particular case , not infrequently in connection with the possible expulsion of a partner on the ground of his breach of provisions in the agreement where his behaviour has in fact been tolerated over a considerable time .
24 Fred watched carefully in the mirror for some muscular indication of what his friend had in mind .
25 It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority .
26 Karajan was by instinct and training a man of the theatre and it is another of those paradoxes surrounding his career that this central aspect of his art has to some extent been obscured from the general public gaze .
27 Though his career had to this point suffered no check , according to Ata'i , he now fell into disfavour with the Grand Vezir Sokullu Mehmed Pasa ( Grand Vezir 972 87/1565–79 ) , who succeeded in accomplishing his removal , with a pension , in Safar 987/April 1579 .
28 Vanbrugh was appointed as designer but at that time he is not known to have had any architectural experience ; his career had until then been a military one .
29 Ed missed most of the discussions his father had with these people .
30 For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men .
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