Example sentences of "his family 's " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ For his family 's sake . |
| 32 | Crowninshield sliced through my objections with all the brute force of his family 's fortune . |
| 33 | Having heard of his family 's desire for an heir , she fantasised a little as to whether his wife might be expecting again . |
| 34 | Cheshire Restaurants was formed by David Hughes in 1978 to run his family 's expanding restaurant business . |
| 35 | The meal was finished , his father had returned to the newspaper , rather deflated at his family 's lack of appreciation of his vice-presidency , and his mother had finished her ice cream and was rising from the table . |
| 36 | He was acting as courier for some of his family 's purchases earlier in the year . |
| 37 | His cold and frankly hypocritical accusations against Diana , detailed in TODAY , reveal him to be the perpetrator of his family 's problems . |
| 38 | County homicide chief , Lieutenant John Tenwolde said he could not rule out the possibility that Mr Spiro had also been a victim of his family 's killer . |
| 39 | SPY Ian Spiro took the riddle of his family 's massacre with him to the grave yesterday . |
| 40 | Matthew planned to take the Government to the European Court of Human rights after his family 's civil action against the school failed . |
| 41 | But Fry said his absence was best for all concerned and added : ‘ For his own sake , for his family 's sake , and for football 's sake , he should sell his interest in Barnet Football Club and quit . |
| 42 | PLEASE wear a helmet , summer or winter , for Stuart and for his family 's sake . |
| 43 | BONG : Now Purvis has left his family 's four-bedroom home in Cobham , Surrey . |
| 44 | That was before the statement from 10 Downing Street about his family 's expenses-paid holiday to Marbella with Mrs Bauwens , daughter of a PLO chief . |
| 45 | He died at his family 's Wiltshire home after a short illness . |
| 46 | The arrangements for the expatriate and his family 's passage to and from the UK and for periods of leave during the assignment should be given together with information on the location of airports/ports . |
| 47 | Out of his family 's travails he helped to make a fastness of domestic security — Cis , Ifor and the barricades of brothers , sisters , cousins , aunts , ever-open houses … out of the outwardly unpromising landscape of a war-battered , low-waged steel , coal and chapel culture he took a fine voice , musical knowledge , a skill in many sports , a love for learning : and he never forgot that a few shillings would and did make the difference between dignity and pity , poverty and decent comfort . |
| 48 | Yet , at the same time , he could not bear the feeling that , if the career tides were receding from him , then his family 's response of withdrawing too , into their own remedies and inevitable independence , might leave him quite beached like an old wreck on the shore . |
| 49 | And Raymond of St Gilles attacked the Rouergue immediately on the death of its countess , married to Robert of the Auvergne , rather than allow his family 's claims to her lands to be forgotten . |
| 50 | Having left behind the bigoted Bolivian elite for whom he would always be only a rich cholo , the contemptuous South American term for anyone of mixed blood , Simon Patiño had his family enter a far grander arena through a series of aristocratic matches , and when he left his fortune estimated by some to have reached a billion dollars to Antenor following his death in 1947 ( as well as his taste for all things French ) , he also left behind a legacy of bigotry borne of his wish to improve his family 's social standing . |
| 51 | His son , Hidetada , was an equally able administrator and politician , and by the time of his death in 1632 his family 's position was unchallenged . |
| 52 | Their efforts were observed by John Paston III who , however , was watching events round the king almost entirely with an eye to how they might affect his family 's dispute with the duke of Norfolk , and recorded the flurry of activity without noting its cause . |
| 53 | Moreover , although both men faced the job of rebuilding their followings , Percy had the harder task since his family 's traditional support had fragmented in the previous decade . |
| 54 | The invasion was briefly halted at Ancrum Moor near Jedburgh , where a heavy defeat was inflicted on the English by an army under the command of the sixth Earl of Angus , hitherto one of Henry 's supporters but now a bitter opponent because of the desecration of his family 's graves at Melrose abbey . |
| 55 | But James 's great houses are rarely inhabited by ancestral families : Lord Mark is an exception , and Lord Warburton offers to move from Lockleigh if Isabel ( however mistakenly ) argues damp from its moat ; in any event , his family 's hold on the house is so frail that his sisters seem no more than faded chintz figures among the faded chintz of their drawing-room . |
| 56 | Ex-Conservative Party grandee whose power was derived from his family 's ability to marry well as much as his own commercial acumen . |
| 57 | This was the emotion he had tried to purge himself of by identifying with the snakes that had taken up residence in the ashes of his family 's land . |
| 58 | If Dizzy the prodigal was to be received back onto his family 's old stamping-ground without too much in the way of resentment , her own job would be a lot easier to carry off . |
| 59 | As soon as Reunification came about , Schiller applied for the return of his family 's estates . |
| 60 | The tragic waste of a boy called Danny — and his family 's fight against solvent abuse |