Example sentences of "his child ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |
| 2 | ‘ West Indies 790 for 3 declared , ’ I would insist as I delivered him his child 's dinner on a tray . |
| 3 | Then , at moments , he could also manifest his child 's natural sweetness . |
| 4 | Spielberg 's last attempt at an adult theme was the nave , saccharine spirituality of Always ; and yet , paradoxically , his children 's Neverland lacks innocence . |
| 5 | Spielberg 's last attempt at an adult theme was the nave , saccharine spirituality of Always ; and yet , paradoxically , his children 's Neverland lacks innocence . |
| 6 | It seems likely that , if Prince Charles had n't made it famous through his children 's book The Old Man of Lochnagar , nobody might have known that , by 1984 , only 13 trout survived in this highly acidified loch . |
| 7 | When colleges of education in the 1960s were clamouring to employ Brian Way as their external examiner and his children 's theatre companies were a household name throughout the country 's education authorities , Dorothy Heathcote was relatively unknown in spite of having held her university post since the early 1950s . |
| 8 | There is , then , no grounds to believe that he is wilful in his disposition of his children 's affective lives [ see Landry , p. 103 ] ; indeed , his most important act is essentially to defend Terentia 's freedom . |
| 9 | He was so deeply moved by this double loss that he was still able to describe his children 's last illnesses over thirty-five years later ( Aubrey De Vere , Essays , vol. ii ) . |
| 10 | Recently he went to his children 's school nativity play . |
| 11 | Grieving father Garry Tomlins said at his Cork home that he could not accept that his children 's deaths were a ‘ freak , million-to-one ’ accident . |
| 12 | He is given the land of Canaan as his children 's inheritance . |
| 13 | And every evening , when Frith has done his day 's work and lies calm and easy in the red sky , El-ahrairah and his children and his children 's children come out of their holes and feed and play in his sight , for they are his friends and he has promised them that they can never be destroyed . " |
| 14 | Not long was left his children 's fate to tell ; |
| 15 | Indeed he treated his children 's holidays and an uninterrupted period of married life as a stern duty for which he was prepared to make the supreme sacrifice . |
| 16 | In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud . |
| 17 | Confucius , which remind us of our daily obligations towards our parents , our ancestors , our emperor and all those set in authority over us , " he said , speaking in a firm voice that carried clearly to his children 's ears . |
| 18 | Warm scents rose from a honeysuckle hedge at Monboddo , the much-changed home of a man who , according to Sir Walter Scott , went out at night with a candle to inspect his turnips growing in the fields ; who , hating to sit behind a horse 's backside , would not travel in a carriage and therefore — he was in his eighties — rode to London on horseback ; who took a cold bath every day and damaged his children 's health by insisting they did the same ; and who , when in residence at Edinburgh , gave dinner parties at which his wine-flagons were wreathed in garlands of roses . |
| 19 | A natural Tory , he abhorred the postwar Labour government and in 1947 , after a surprise windfall of £15,000 when his children 's book , Mistress Masham 's Repose ( 1947 ) , was chosen as the book of the month in the USA , exiled himself in the Channel Islands . |
| 20 | In 1875 he next married his children 's governess , Ethel Jane ( died 1910 ) , daughter of William Sanderson Wyman , a Kettering physician . |
| 21 | In the summer of 1888 he took his family on holiday to Bournemouth and there died of a heart attack , 30 August 1888 , frustrating his desire to retire to Kirchhosbach when his children 's education was complete . |
| 22 | And his children 's children cry to him alone . |
| 23 | Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place . |
| 24 | On the wall of Santos ' house hang his children 's primary-school leaving certificates . |
| 25 | According to one author , James II 's abdication involved no abdication of his children 's right , and therefore Anne inherited the Crown " as Queen of the Royal Succession , and not of the Revolution " . |
| 26 | A court has ordered that an estranged father of two should pay just five pence a year towards his children 's welfare . |
| 27 | Derek , 39 , said he wanted to be near his children 's school . |
| 28 | It is said that the vicar fell out with the church when , some years after his children 's deaths , he was denied permission to erect a monument in the churchyard . |
| 29 | Threats have been made against Bishop Laszlo Tokes , including the confiscation of his official residence , the fouling of his house , circulation of false rumours that he harboured King Michael , letters predicting the deaths of him and his relations , threatening his children 's teacher , and his doctors . |