Example sentences of "had [vb pp] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel dared to disagree with her — he had hated his own school and he thought he divined Gina 's reason for wanting Anthony out of the way . |
| 2 | By this time Odinga had formed his own party , the KPU ( Kenya People 's Union ) , but following an incident in Kenyatta 's presence at Kisumu he was jailed in October 1969 and the KPU banned . |
| 3 | They all asked whether he played for the Beatles or the Stones , and were much amused to hear he had formed his own pop group with some of his fellow junior students . |
| 4 | He had formed his own view of Jake although Harry had not coloured it by any comments other than the barest fact . |
| 5 | Rich had conquered his own temper enough to take and not to spoil this rare second shot at school . |
| 6 | He was six foot seven and had developed his own style of street fighting which he called Zen-Do Kai . |
| 7 | When Boswell had completed his own adventuring on Raasay , he turned his attention , as usual , to making Dr Johnson sparkle : ‘ Let me now gather some gold dust — some more fragments of Dr Johnson 's conversation , without regard to order of time . ’ |
| 8 | To check his wandering thoughts he started to ask her to resume her labours elsewhere and finish the surgery when he had completed his own tasks in it — Only to find that she was hopping gently from foot to foot , and was bursting to ask him a question . |
| 9 | He had won his own victory . |
| 10 | His evidence was also remarkable for his insistence that Kesselring had exaggerated his own importance as Officer Commanding Troops in Italy , and was therefore not in fact responsible for the atrocities of which he stood accused . |
| 11 | A debtor swearing an affidavit that he had resigned his all would not wipe away the claim his creditor had on him . |
| 12 | McLeish had rung his own flat to collect messages ; he could see Catherine just waking , and waved to her to indicate that he was on the phone . |
| 13 | The boy 's eyes had met his own , and for a moment Pavel had been afraid ; but the boy had n't said anything , and after a moment he 'd looked away . |
| 14 | A man who had turned his own son out of the house was not exactly comfortable as a father-in-law . |
| 15 | They tried to make Jim had done his own coach , the one that took us over |
| 16 | Justin 's language about the distinction of the Father as God transcendent from the Son as God immanent , which Irenaeus had made his own , precipitated sharp debate ( the so-called monarchian controversy ) at Rome c. 190–225 . |
| 17 | Beethoven learnt more from Haydn than from anyone , and all that he had made his own from that study is put to fascinating use here ; but the music is no reversion , and has its own lightness and gaiety . |
| 18 | If he copies from another drawing in a book the translation from the three-dimensional plane to the two-dimensional drawing will have been done for him , so he will not have had to observe as carefully and think as much as he would have had to do if he had made his own translation . |
| 19 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 20 | Such collaboration included participation in the campaign to free Henri Martin imprisoned for alleged subversive , anti-colonial activities , the publication of a series of enthusiastic reports on the Soviet Union following a visit to the USSR in 1954 , twenty years exactly after Nizan had made his own pilgrimage to the mecca of communism , and the production of a pro-communist play Nekrassov . |
| 21 | He had made his own translations of one of the Psalms and Prayers of Cardinal John Fisher [ q.v. ] ( although his theological books show a Puritan tendency ) and of ‘ The Life and Death of Edward II ’ , and he had part of the original manuscript of the Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | The garden had been built by his great-great-grandfather , but , like his father and his father 's father , he had made his own small changes to the original scheme , extending the garden to the north , so that it now filled the whole of the ancient island of Manhattan . |
| 23 | And for Jack Henry Moore , who had made his own commitment to sexual politics by coming out years before , the subject was now part of his past . |
| 24 | Anthony Perkins , the star of Psycho , had grown his own cannabis back home in Los Angeles and had thought to avoid being busted by customs by posting it to the hotel in Wales where he was due to stay in June 1989 . |
| 25 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 26 | But first he had built his own power station at Lots Road in Chelsea , and another at Neasden , and electrified the District Line . |
| 27 | He had weakened his own side by subtracting two thousand men . |
| 28 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 29 | Although he had told his own secret , he had not discovered Dorian 's secret . |
| 30 | The important thing here is to look at the nature of the evidence , which is opinion and hearsay — that MacDonald favoured the idea , and had re-aligned his own political thinking . |