Example sentences of "his parent ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll tell him to his face I think his parent 's sofa 's not very nice . |
| 2 | Korn may be seen as in considerable contrast to Reynolds ; he was no Ivy Leaguer , and learnt the principles of economics and entrepreneurship in his parent 's grocery store . |
| 3 | Ben , at his parent 's insistence , takes her out . |
| 4 | They were spotted by a five-year-old playing around with the freeze-frame on his parent 's video . |
| 5 | After explaining his love of art , he gave the police the opportunity to see some classic paintings for themselves by directing them to his parent 's house in Lyons where they recovered the Renoir and several other works . |
| 6 | You can define ‘ uncle ’ as meaning parent 's brother precisely because you recognize that it is not an important truth that someone 's uncle is always his parent 's brother . |
| 7 | Born in 1953 in Fort Benning , Georgia — his father was an Army man — young Robert grew up in Eugene , Oregon , listening to his parent 's jazz , soul and blues records : Sam Cooke , Ray Charles , B.B. King and Miles Davis . |
| 8 | He 'd been keen to make the most of being able to borrow his parents ' yacht , and do some sailing . |
| 9 | ‘ I could n't care less , ’ was the reply of Philip , a 16-year-old sprinter from Birchfield , when asked whether he was displeased with his parents ' lack of zeal . |
| 10 | He went back to his parents ' council house on the wedding night . |
| 11 | Herbert 's magnanimity in making do with the smaller bedroom , so that John might have plenty of room for the puppets , made Hanns envious ; the more so , as he had to sleep on a couch in the dining-room of his parents ' boarding-house . |
| 12 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 13 | His parents ' enthusiasm for antiques and the past ‘ was bound to have rubbed off ’ , he feels . |
| 14 | As a youngster , he sings for pennies in his parents ' saloon . |
| 15 | He was , after all , his parents ' child — the offspring of a joyous and passionate union . |
| 16 | ‘ They do n't mind so much now I 've got a few trophies in a case that they can show their friends and boast about it , ’ Carlos Francis recollected his parents ' change of posture after it became evident that he could make a career out of soccer . |
| 17 | ‘ Not divorced , ’ James went on , as if the precise terms of his parents ' separation were important . |
| 18 | Special considerations : the appellant had experienced difficulties following his parents ' separation ; a community service order was recommended . |
| 19 | However hard he strove , his destiny was fixed at birth by his parents ' position , and such limited social mobility as might be achieved was rationalized ( and thus concealed ) in the language of kinship . |
| 20 | On his release he had come straight-up to Moila , and by last weekend — it was possibly true enough — had not heard of his parents ' departure , but had thought he could go straight home . |
| 21 | He defied his mother so that he could link his parents ' telephone line to his terminal after his own phone was cut off , James Richardson , prosecuting , said at Southwark Crown Court . |
| 22 | In practice , very few Romanians would have recognized Valentin Ceauşescu before his family was exposed to public denunciation after his parents ' fall . |
| 23 | Climbing into his parents ' bed one morning , and establishing himself firmly between them , he declared that when he grew up he was going to marry his mummy . |
| 24 | As a result , Graham always sleeps in a cot by his parents ' bed . |
| 25 | He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P. |
| 26 | His parents ' cottage was restored to make it a suitable birthplace for such a great man . |
| 27 | ‘ I was ill over there , ’ he said , noticing his parents ' concern . |
| 28 | Thus a migrant son from a Scottish island croft answers his parents ' call : ‘ when I grew old , I had to come home to be with them . ’ |
| 29 | He washed and shaved at his parents ' pavillon . |
| 30 | Jean-Claude made his telephone calls from his parents ' pavillon . |