Example sentences of "[prep] his son 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after his son 's arrival at his camp did Henry II rouse himself from the passivity of the last month . |
| 2 | But he was now in his fifties and , despite his son 's boast , there was no means by which he could be financially independent for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | However , about the time of his son 's birth , Richard senior was converted through reading the Bible . |
| 4 | Collinson had been told by John Bartram of his son 's artistic talent : ‘ Botany and drawing are his darling delight … |
| 5 | In February 1772 Leopold wrote to the publisher J. G. I. Breitkopf in Leipzig offering some of his son 's compositions for publication . |
| 6 | Mozart finally made plans to travel to Paris in the spring with Johann Baptist Wendling , a flautist at the Mannheim court orchestra , and the oboist Friedrich Ramm , but nevertheless Leopold 's letters show him becoming increasingly exasperated , above all at being in debt as a result of his son 's activities . |
| 7 | On 23 November Leopold tried another tack , using his knowledge of his son 's love for Aloysia Weber , who had gone to Munich with the court : |
| 8 | His father 's jaw dropped at the sight of his son 's face . |
| 9 | ‘ The wife of one of the guys who lives in Lowestoft had sent out a video of his son 's birthday party which also had a bit of my Help programme for Anglia TV on it . |
| 10 | His father chose that moment to deliver an early reminder of his son 's extraordinary position in life . |
| 11 | Crossing the hospital courtyard which divided the maternity wing from the general wards and administration building , hearing over and over in his head the words they had gently but coldly told him , the announcement of his son 's death , leaving Lili asleep , carefully sedated , he had lifted his eyes and seen Rufus Fletcher . |
| 12 | Boyd was surprised at the name of his son 's book , but , unlike his wife , he had not read any of it , and he supposed that Hank had deliberately chosen a titillating title to help sales . |
| 13 | He stood at the side of his son 's darkened room , watching Chrissie striking the boy 's forehead . |
| 14 | Poor Leopold at home was clearly pining for his son : in a touching letter he confessed that he felt sad at times , being unable to hear Wolfgang playing the piano and violin , and each time he approached his home he half expected to hear the familiar sound of his son 's fiddle . |
| 15 | In a desperate appeal to his son 's conscience he reminded him of all his own personal sacrifices for the furtherance of his son 's career . |
| 16 | In a letter to Nannerl ( by then married and living in St Gilgen ) he wrote in wide-eyed appreciation of Wolfgang 's fine apartment ‘ with all the right furniture ’ — the Mozarts had moved the previous autumn to a fashionable address in the Schulerstrasse — and he attended a series of six of his son 's Lenten subscription concerts . |
| 17 | Antonio 's father , Pedro ( Biro ) Custodio , was informed of his son 's death while reporting his kidnapping to the military barracks the next morning . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes he 's like a grown up man , sometimes like a teenager , ’ said Srdjan of his son 's passionate nature . |
| 19 | He gutted the four sheets of his son 's writing . |
| 20 | Basquiat père was shocked at the depiction of his son 's drug addiction in press accounts of the artist 's death , and the elder Basquiat 's lawyer says the estate may sue to stop the film , invoking laws in at least thirteen American states that enable an estate to stop the showing of a film because of objections to the exploitation of a physical likeness on the screen . |
| 21 | In October 1259 Henry sealed a peace treaty with Louis IX ( St Louis ) of France whereby , in spite of his son 's objections , he renounced his claim to Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine and Poitou , while the French king , recognising Henry as his vassal in Aquitaine and other territories in the south-west , created him a peer of France . |
| 22 | Inflation , the extravagance of Henry VIII , and the greed of his son 's councillors combined to push up expenditure . |
| 23 | Few who lived when the aristocratic rule of taste prevailed would have questioned Sir Henry Wotton 's definition in the previous century of ‘ Every Man 's proper Mansion House and Home ’ as ‘ the Theatre of his Hospitality , the Seat of Self Fruition , the comfortablest Part of his own Life , the noblest of his Son 's Inheritance , a kind of private Princedom ; nay , to the Possessors thereof , an Epitomy of the whole World ’ , although , on occasions , this was not of course the reality . |
| 24 | Rostov was suddenly sure about the purpose of his son 's remarks . |
| 25 | Rostov 's lips twitched at the new interpretation of his son 's name . |
| 26 | If things had been otherwise , perhaps that 's how he would have liked to hear of his son 's death . |
| 27 | As a result of his son 's status , that householder automatically gets the 25 per cent . |
| 28 | The Director of Studies then produced a folder of his son 's Art ( from another school ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Whenever I get the blues , I look at this , ’ Jack murmured , his finger tracing the contours of his son 's face . |
| 30 | As he told the press of his son 's death , Mr Parry spoke with remarkable composure but he fought to hold back tears when asked if he felt anger for the IRA . |