Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] his father [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Philip was employed there for a time before going abroad , taking over during his father 's trips into the country where some landowners Sought his practical advice , particularly with regard to establishing plantations of hitherto unknown trees from abroad . |
| 2 | Abel Smith II also became a partner in his family 's bank in Nottingham , whose management he took over on his father 's death in 1757 . |
| 3 | He got them when he was run over by his father 's new Grand Am . |
| 4 | ‘ We go for that old-style thing , ’ explains James Hendy , 21 , recently third in the Cornish and Open surf contest , and taking the day off from his father 's carpet business in nearby Truro . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'll grow up with rickets like the rest of 'em , ’ she said , rubbing Patrick 's thin legs which failed to support him when he attempted to pull himself up against his father 's chair . |
| 6 | In 1907 he joined Straker Squires in Bristol and four years later teamed up with his father 's engineering firm . |
| 7 | The boy looked up into his father 's dark glowering face and tried his best to smile . |
| 8 | As incessant rain lashed the town in late July , 1798 , to be followed on the 28th of that month by one of the worst floods in living memory , John 's health can hardly have improved — and who knows what bacteria he was daily picking up from his father 's butchery ? |
| 9 | Although so alike physically , she felt sure that Jonna would not stand up to his father 's rage , as George would have done . |
| 10 | The Young King failed to live up to his father 's hopes . |
| 11 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 12 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 13 | The ‘ he ’ is Shoeless Joe Jackson ( Ray Liotta ) , a disgraced member of the Chicago team who threw the World Series back in his father 's time . |
| 14 | He was relying on the hope that he might , at least , become a servant back in his father 's house . |
| 15 | George Borrow was to wander many roads before being invited back to his father 's home county . |
| 16 | Henceforth he supported York until Anselm 's death brought him back to his father 's policy of supporting the unity of the Church under the southern see , By this time , however , it was too late to alter the general swing away from overlordships such as that claimed by Canterbury . |
| 17 | ‘ Never , ’ Harrison said , lying , for his whole purpose was to get back to his father 's farm to work out when he could return and what he could offer Mary . |
| 18 | The young man with the terrible toothache — Harrison — had sought her out and , clumsily but resolutely , he had told her that he intended to leave the quarries , go back to his father 's farm , assess what his prospects were there and then come back and … his resolution had run out at that point but the aim was clear . |
| 19 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |