Example sentences of "[prep] his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother had driven their secondhand Jaguar into a concrete wall six weeks after his father 's death . |
| 2 | Although she was the dominant parent , she had made no attempt to do so until then ; Robin 's father remembered being circumcised after his father 's death , when he was seven . |
| 3 | Peter the Great had a particular liking for Scots , probably influenced by his mother who had been reared by a Scotswoman , and by his own guardian after his father 's death having been a General Menzies . |
| 4 | For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed . |
| 5 | Thibaut IV of Champagne , the son of Thibaut III and Blanche of Navarre , was born after his father 's death at Troyes in 1201 . |
| 6 | Benjamin 's mother was lying paralysed in Shoreditch Workhouse even as the portrait was being executed , and he himself had only been saved from abject poverty after his father 's premature death by the generous good offices of his uncle , Samuel Hasted . |
| 7 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |
| 8 | A bit correct for a small boy , a little formal , but they had been his proxy parents for school terms after his father 's death , and after his mother had taken off with Herbie . |
| 9 | He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley , in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming , as it did , soon after his father 's death in March 1743 , was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him . |
| 10 | Only after his father 's return to England in July do we possess any report of activity on his part . |
| 11 | Arkwright 's son built ‘ a very elegant seat ’ , after his father 's death in 1792 , commanding a view of his works , precisely as Josiah Wedgwood had built Etruria Hall within two hundred yards of his new pottery near Burslem . |
| 12 | It was also widely believed that he would have become the laibon after his father 's death . |
| 13 | They were married in 1949 ; Marc Bischof was born in 1950 , Daniel in 1954 , nine days after his father 's death . |
| 14 | Then Monks said that he had all Oliver 's money safely now , but how funny it would be if the boy went to prison for stealing , after his father 's unfair will . ’ |
| 15 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |
| 16 | After his father 's death in 1900 , Pearse became head of his family and , along with his brother , tried and failed to keep the family firm prosperous . |
| 17 | He became king after his father 's death in February 670 . |
| 18 | Among his commissions after his father 's death were Victoria Park , Glossop ( 1887–8 ) ; Yeatton Peverey , Shropshire ( 1890 ) ; and Keszthely , Hungary ( 1885 ) , for Count Festetics . |
| 19 | After his father 's sudden death in 1820 , his mother and elder brother Henry moved to Italy , where Edward was to join them in about 1825 after leaving the army . |
| 20 | After his father 's early death , he was brought up by his mother and educated locally and at Glasgow University . |
| 21 | For many years after his father 's early death Mitchell supported his mother and her seven younger children . |
| 22 | They had three sons and six daughters ; the eldest son , John Wesley Hackworth ( 1820–1891 ) carried on the business after his father 's death , 7 July 1850 , at his home in Shildon , county Durham . |
| 23 | The day after his father 's funeral , his grandmother , Mrs Yaxlee , told him to go and ask his lordship for a job . |
| 24 | The son 's reward had been a comfortable living in England , both before and after his father 's death . |
| 25 | The fact remains that he was murdered on the night after his father 's funeral and if the two are unconnected we are back in the funny coincidences department . |
| 26 | It is possible that Chilperic 's actions immediately after his father 's death were intended to ensure that he was not excluded from the succession by his half-brothers . |
| 27 | Thus in 1506 the Spanish representative in Venice was succeeded by his son , who presented to the doge on the day after his father 's death credentials prepared in advance ; and when about the same time a French ambassador to Hungary died , his duties immediately passed to his nephew , who completed the work of the embassy . |
| 28 | Dr Scorgie 's late father was a GP in Birmingham where the young Richard grew up , moving to Darlington after his father 's death in 1961 . |
| 29 | Jonna , who , despite his father 's efforts to hide the fact , had always been his favourite , had followed the road first trodden by Joseph , his eldest son and then by Tamar . |
| 30 | Wolski survived because his brother Avram put a hand to his back and despite his father 's protests pushed him forward from the line when the Germans said they wanted shoemakers and tailors . |