Example sentences of "[vb pp] [noun] [prep] his [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered her father 's words after he 'd blamed Ace for his son 's death ; words she 'd never repeated to anybody . |
| 2 | The Earl of Hereford 's son was granted livery of his father 's inheritance , the Clifford family was restored , and the Mowbray inheritance was placed in wardship with the Countess of Warenne until John Mowbray 's heir came of age . |
| 3 | Finnegan has made arrangements for his wife 's income to cover those outstanding debts . |
| 4 | The teacher 's widow continued to deny that her husband had had sex with his killer 's 15-year-old daughter , and the dead man 's brother spoke of the ‘ fantasies ’ of the teenage schoolgirl . |
| 5 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 6 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 7 | It was when he had pictured Morpurgo in his mind 's eye that it had occurred to him : such a trivial matter , yet nonetheless not right , not right at all — surely he must be mistaken . |
| 8 | He visited their house in Chiswick once in 1953 , soon after Lousada had inherited paintings from his father 's collection . |
| 9 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
| 10 | They have also cast doubt on his client 's character by implying there 's been some sort of fraud . |
| 11 | It had put food on his mother 's table . |
| 12 | Sir Gregory had no intention of admitting that he had given way to his wife 's insistence that Jennifer must go , so he refrained from giving Harry any sort of answer . |