Example sentences of "father 's [noun] [conj] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had his father 's looks and his mother 's brains , Lucille liked to say , Henri-Patrick should be well blessed . |
| 2 | Determination surged afresh through Emily 's consciousness , she would rebuild her father 's reputation and his business , she would show the world that Emily Grenfell was no weak-kneed lady of leisure , but as strong as any man when it came to business . |
| 3 | Then they made a bonfire of his father 's music and his collection of imported Deutsche Gramophon records . |
| 4 | It was a tradition that Edwin should frame all my father 's work but his death made that impossible in this instance so Francis returned the picture . ’ |
| 5 | The one thing he could not have borne , the one thing he could not completely shut out from the fevered fringes of his mind , was the thought of the boy 's chill assessment of his father 's achievement and his friend 's . |
| 6 | ‘ Matthew 's different ; there 's a weakness there from his father 's side and his uncle knew it . |
| 7 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 8 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the great-grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 9 | It is always dangerous to draw individual implications from social and psychological survey-work such as this , but it does fit : Leonard 's admission of insomnia , of disturbing dreams and nightmares , his high sensitivity , his creative abilities ; not least his father 's demise and his mother 's need to attend to him during his frequent bouts of sickness before it . |
| 10 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 11 | Not even for his father 's sake or his honour 's sake now , only because he would rather die than give Isambard best . |
| 12 | And as a child his own household included not only his father 's father but his mother 's grandmother , who spent most of her days hidden away ‘ in her own cabin ’ , but who would emerge on Sundays , always knitting a long stocking . |