Example sentences of "[prep] his family 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew planned to take the Government to the European Court of Human rights after his family 's civil action against the school failed . |
| 2 | Enraged when supporters of a visiting Congress ( I ) chief minister tore down one of his family 's red and yellow standards , the Rajah rammed the visitor 's helicopter with his Jeep . |
| 3 | No wonder he ca n't bring himself to show much emotion at the news of his family 's demise . |
| 4 | Weatherill , 71 , sold out of his family 's firm in 1970 when he decided to further his career in politics but will return once the election is over . |
| 5 | The old blue suitcase which he carried out of Palestine in 1948 was still stuffed with his files and documents , all neatly labelled and dated — land deeds , deeds of sale , taxes , rents and maps of allotments — together with correspondence with the United Nations about the ownership of his family 's land . |
| 6 | Crowninshield sliced through my objections with all the brute force of his family 's fortune . |
| 7 | Having heard of his family 's desire for an heir , she fantasised a little as to whether his wife might be expecting again . |
| 8 | He was acting as courier for some of his family 's purchases earlier in the year . |
| 9 | His cold and frankly hypocritical accusations against Diana , detailed in TODAY , reveal him to be the perpetrator of his family 's problems . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | SPY Ian Spiro took the riddle of his family 's massacre with him to the grave yesterday . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As soon as Reunification came about , Schiller applied for the return of his family 's estates . |
| 16 | What had led Massingham to choose the police service instead of his family 's usual career of the Army as an outlet for his natural combativeness and unfashionable patriotism Dalgliesh had not enquired , partly because he was a respecter of other men 's privacy , and partly because he was n't sure that he wanted to hear the answer . |
| 17 | In 1787–9 , in circumstances that are unclear , he got into financial difficulties , losing not only his own money but some of his family 's : it became a matter of pride to make good those losses . |
| 18 | Babur looked forward to this feeling many times while he was studying , waiting to leave the narrow circle of his family 's imagination . |
| 19 | Mitsotakis 's sensitivity on the issue of his family 's political involvement was seen to reflect his desire to avoid charges of unethical conduct by his government , the issue which had effectively brought down his ( socialist ) predecessor Andreas Papandreou . |
| 20 | Craig Cook was playing in the back garden of his family 's council home a year ago when the brick wall of a shed collapsed on top of him . |
| 21 | The fun-loving teenager of his family 's memory is gone . |
| 22 | In his ‘ Thought for the day ’ , on Radio Scotland , on 29th April , our Minister told of his family 's ‘ drawer ’ , where cherished things were kept , such as ‘ old football programmes , an envelope postmarked on the first day of the Queen 's reign , the autograph of Sir William Smith , founder of the B.B. ’ He explained that such things , if given to us , could be sold to feed the world 's hungry people . |
| 23 | So far , rather surprisingly in view of his family 's origins , he says very little , but he obviously understand much of what is said to him . |
| 24 | Finally , he allows himself to marry one of inferior rank and connections , against his family 's wishes , because he is in love . |
| 25 | Another connection with his family 's involvement was the presentation of the Lyon Cohen Memorial Medal ( to Mark Bercuvitz ) , and the Lazarus and Fanny Cohen Memorial Medal ( to Lewis Batshaw ) . |
| 26 | The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland . |
| 27 | Of Puritan stock , and imbued with his family 's sober piety , Philipps grew up a wholly devout Anglican , anxious above all for the survival and renewal of a Church beset , as he saw it , by spreading laxity and licentiousness . |
| 28 | Peter has been delivering yarn to Elderslie since 1946 when he worked with his family 's haulage business before joining Douglas Reyburn . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He slept on a sofa-bed in his family 's living room , surrounded by homework and books . |