Example sentences of "[prep] his mother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity was there : when he became prime minister after his mother 's assassination by Sikh extremists , he carried with him the goodwill and sympathy of both parliament and public . |
| 2 | After his mother 's assassination , in 1984 , some 3,000 Sikhs were killed in Delhi . |
| 3 | That decision exposed the party 's bankruptcy : with no leader of stature to replace Mr Gandhi , they turned to a woman whose only political asset was her name , which , the party hoped , would bring in the sympathy vote that swung Rajiv into power after his mother 's death in 1984 . |
| 4 | In 1962 , three years after his mother 's death , he sold the Castlewellan estate to the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 5 | The monastery of the Poor Clares knew him well as a loyal altar server after his mother 's early death . |
| 6 | It is a one-storey place with a small balcony overlooking the street , exactly as described in l'Etranger when Meursault while away the Sunday after his mother 's funeral . |
| 7 | The infant James himself was , breaking with all tradition , given a hurried coronation in Stirling 's medieval Church of the Holy Rude after his mother 's forced abdication . |
| 8 | He was illegitimate , and was christened Richard Denemy after his mother 's maiden name . |
| 9 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 10 | As he grew older his own life began to have more centre to it and he gave up yearning so hungrily after his mother 's attention . |
| 11 | After his mother 's death , Crawford parted company with his stepfather for ever and moved in with his maternal grandmother , Edith Pike . |
| 12 | The Scottish nobles set up a Regency Council with control of Margaret 's baby sons , one of whom , Alexander , Duke of Ross , dies soon after his mother 's sudden departure for England . |
| 13 | Despite his mother 's Catholicism , James had received an impeccably Protestant upbringing in Calvinist Scotland , and was personally extremely interested in religious issues . |
| 14 | Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother 's eyebrows which he learnt to dislike in the nursery and let him think how he dislikes it . |
| 15 | It took a lot to faze a talented one like that , who had been a successful soloist for two years , managing with having a sick father and about one tenth of his mother 's attention . |
| 16 | The blood of circumcision , just like the blood of animal sacrifice , could also be viewed as cleansing the boy of his mother 's blood and acting as a rite of separation , differentiating him from the female , and allying him with the male community . |
| 17 | In the book , his mother dies , and his cousin Andrew with his wife Susan descend on Lewis for the funeral : ‘ Lewis 's rage sprang from Susan 's occupancy of his mother 's chair , and , by extension , spread to cover the whole of her existence . |
| 18 | He went to bed and fell straight to sleep , dreaming of his mother 's soup . |
| 19 | His cot pulses gently too with a rhythm matched to that of his mother 's average pulse rate during pregnancy . |
| 20 | If the first were correct , surely a house full of children and servants would have heard poor William 's pleas and , even if they had been too frightened of his mother 's retribution to release him , surely they would have passed him food . |
| 21 | At the time of his mother 's death in 1582 he had drifted to France to join other exiled English Catholics at Douai . |
| 22 | One man , who appeared to have understood and accepted the fact of his mother 's death , still got ready to visit her in hospital that evening . |
| 23 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 24 | So , much against my better judgement , I put my own shopping bag on top of his mother 's trolley and picked him up . |
| 25 | Jack thought of his mother 's anguish and his stepfather 's injuries and anger rose in him like a demon . |
| 26 | He was very firm now and his growing reaction reminded Jack of his mother 's . |
| 27 | He reinvested in his father 's stud in Ireland , and brought in Jack Dwyer , the best trainer in the country , poaching him from the stables of his mother 's old friend , Hugh Westminster , without a qualm . |
| 28 | He had decided to investigate for himself the question of his mother 's land investments in Texas , the holdings her Wall Street advisers seemed so anxious she should sell — so anxious that Edouard was a little suspicious . |
| 29 | Thrusting his hands in his pocket , he felt the crumpled envelope of his mother 's last letter . |
| 30 | While they were alone and could not be overheard by those inside the house , she once more broached the subject of his mother 's continued presence at the Manor . |