Example sentences of "[subord] his father [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One indication that Richard was still maintaining a more aggressive attitude than his father lies in the fact that when the constable of Gisors killed a French knight in a skirmish which occurred after the truce had been made he thought it wiser to take refuge with Richard . |
| 2 | On April 17 , however , Lester Bird stated that he would boycott further Cabinet meetings until his father agreed to a full judicial inquiry — armed with legal powers to subpoena witnesses and evidence — into the armaments affair . |
| 3 | February 1811 , the Prince Regent assumed the royal prerogative until his father died in January 1820 and the Prince Regent became King George IV . |
| 4 | After his education , he was apprenticed to his father 's coach-building premises , graduating after three years to an office position which he retained until his father retired in 1890 . |
| 5 | When he asked if he could take part , the gentlemen archers looked at him and at his bow and , thinking it doubtful he could hit anything at 100 yards , gave their permission if his father looked after him . |
| 6 | But that day his mother had suddenly flown a warning flight , while his father rose into the air and swooped into the valley and back beneath the cliff edge , and suddenly a man was there with something green in his hand which rose into the sky above him and came down towards him . |
| 7 | Michael told the Old Bailey he had tried to defend his brother Lee , 13 , before his father turned on him . |
| 8 | Three years ago Mike Phelan , now with Manchester United , was injured and Robert Fleck was given compassionate leave after his father died on the eve of the game . |
| 9 | Lord Bath , who inherited the title after his father died in June , said from his Paris home it was ‘ wonderful news ’ . |
| 10 | After his father died in 1835 , leaving the business to him , he remained in Liverpool until 1841 , when he moved to Manchester and at the same time entered into partnership with another Liverpool optician under the name Abraham & Dancer . |
| 11 | After his father died in 1859 he was sent to a Huguenot school in Friedrichsdorf . |
| 12 | When his father remonstrated with him and refused to believe that the respectable staff of the Sunday School had put any such nonsense in his head , the wee boy protested : ‘ But if I told you what we did learn about Moses and the Red Sea , you 'd never believe me . ’ |
| 13 | The Crown Prince was just six years old when his father came to the Imperial Throne , and from that moment on all communication — even the most personal — between himself and the Kaiser took place through the formal intermediary of the Chief of the Military Cabinet . |
| 14 | Still the boy did n't speak , but when his father advanced around the table and stood over him , he looked up into his face . |
| 15 | He inherited his title when his father died in 1968 . |
| 16 | When his father died in April 1617 he was living in Braintree , Essex , probably working in the shop of John Lawrence , grocer and apothecary , and one of the leading townsmen , whose daughter Mary he married at about this time . |
| 17 | When his father died in 1846 he had to support the family , but his career took on a dramatic new turn when he was asked to undertake a contract to build a bridge over the River Severn near his home . |
| 18 | When his father died in June 1747 , Jeremiah took over a thriving business and the premises at the corner of Beaufort Buildings , Strand . |
| 19 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 20 | She was to leave behind three of the youngest children , the last a ‘ sickly babe ’ born less than six months before their departure ; they were to take with them only their eldest son , John Henry , who was by then seven years old , and Mrs Gould 's nephew , Henry Coxen , whom the couple had taken on when his father died in 1825 . |
| 21 | When his father died in 1955 , young John was only 12-years-old . |
| 22 | When his father died in 1974 , Jochen became the Principal of the College , the administration of which he combines with his medical career . |
| 23 | However , when his father confided in him that he too was a Communist , the interest in the cause dwindled , and the boy soon exchanged the party button for a series of buttons with obscene words … |
| 24 | He made no comment , however , as his father glanced over the parapet of the bridge . |
| 25 | Li Yuan stood at his father 's side , scanning each sheet as his father finished with it . |