Example sentences of "[to-vb] in his [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Britten has done , in effect , is to create in his audience 's minds another dimension in which an unseen but imagined space is felt to be lull of unheard but imagined music . |
| 2 | They were both so caught up in developments at Crystal Springs that it was sometimes hard for Christina to recall that Stephen still had a stake in a totally separate business empire in England — one that Robert seemed to be finding increasingly hard to administer in his partner 's prolonged absence , though Stephen still kept a very firm grip on English events from Barbados . |
| 3 | Might he perhaps been happier staying in Lahore to help in his father 's spare-parts business ? |
| 4 | Less happy will be those punters who supported Jamarj from 25-1 down to 16-1 , as Peter Easterby , believing that the going at Newmarket is unlikely to ease in his filly 's favour before the weekend , has withdrawn her . |
| 5 | Lady Kitty had been furious , declaring that the man was arrogant enough without giving him licence to sleep in his employer 's bed and sit upon his lavatory . |
| 6 | Three days after Calley 's conviction he freed him from jail pending his appeal and allowed him to live in his officer 's quarters . |
| 7 | And possibly either after that or simultaneously with that or to transfer there , he might go up to live in his father 's house up in Yorkshire , Mytholmroyd er er I du n no but it seems to me that if there is a worse place to be unemployed than Wolverhampton , West Riding has got ta be erm a competitor |
| 8 | When John left Cottesmore School in Nottingham in 1941 , at the age of fourteen , his ambition was to follow in his father 's footsteps and become a motor mechanic . |
| 9 | At Deirdre 's elbow stood the faithless Jonathan Headleand , who was trying to explain to his stepmother 's first husband Edgar why he 'd decided , after all his protests , to follow in his father 's footsteps , while simultaneously trying to keep one eye on Deirdre ( for whom he felt responsible ) and the other on his girlfriend Kate Williams who was being harangued by a Tory backbencher about Marxist infiltration of the Open University . |