Example sentences of "[to-vb] his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He leaned over to catch his father 's sleeve and hissed , ‘ No feckin' need to come back at all ! ’ |
| 2 | He got to thinking how disappointed his parents would be if he did n't go back to Fyn in time to meet his father 's cousin . ’ |
| 3 | Ratso takes Buck to visit his father 's grave , and a series of frenetic flashbacks and nightmares reveal Buck 's past in a superficial attempt to explain his character . |
| 4 | In 1796 he began to replace his father 's classical mansion , which he detested , with a grandiose creation , Fonthill Abbey ( Fig. 5 ) , whose tower was intended to rival his neighbour , Salisbury Cathedral . |
| 5 | His condition deteriorated so rapidly that Brian was unable to reach his father 's bedside in New York before he died . |
| 6 | A short-term goal aimed at improving her relationship with him was set and she was encouraged to talk to him regularly and to discuss his father 's condition . |
| 7 | He said his lawyer had persuaded him to contest his father 's will and that he 'd regretted it ever since . |
| 8 | Encouraged initially by his father in the belief that the acquisition and mastery of the culture dispensed in the state educational system was a necessary prerequisite to self-advancement , and spurred on by the conviction that to avoid his father 's fate he must acquire the one element that his father lacked , Nizan proceeded systematically and relatively uncritically between 1917 and 1924 to immerse himself in bourgeois culture . |
| 9 | Jeremy 's natural joy in the festivities found fulfilment at the Youngs ' house , where a children 's party and innumerable presents helped to put his father 's tragedy into the background . |
| 10 | It hence took time to recreate his father 's empire . |
| 11 | He returned only in death when his son begged permission to build his father 's tomb in the waste land to the southwest of Shahjehanabad . |
| 12 | He shut the castle door behind us , to keep his father 's friends in . |
| 13 | He then began to convert his father 's quiet business into something much more ambitious , integrating backwards into slitting mills , forges , and ultimately furnaces . |
| 14 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 15 | ‘ I congratulate the deceased 's son who acted with commendable promptness and courage and did everything possible to try to save his father 's life . ’ |
| 16 | While living in London in 1927 or 1928 he warned that younger son not to mention his father 's American nationality outside the house . |
| 17 | Now little Panos stands to inherit his father 's empire of holiday apartments and villas . |
| 18 | Er , Wi Wilson , er , did not seem to allow his father 's wit and criticism to get him as much as Freud had er , suggested . |
| 19 | But in order not to repeat his father 's duplicity he uses self-consciousness and temporal manipulation to keep the artificiality of this procedure in view . |
| 20 | The druggist , a bird-like little man in his fifties who longed to repeat his father 's reputation as town matchmaker , but had so little chance since the youngsters who had n't moved out permanently were commuting to bigger towns , was delighted to see two mature strangers getting together over coffee . |
| 21 | However Mozart was able to allay his father 's fears : |
| 22 | Since Soissons was part of Belgica Secunda it is argued that Clovis could not have been in a position to claim his father 's authority over that province until Syagrius and his kingdom had been destroyed . |
| 23 | He had been added to confirm his father 's hold on power : if the Congress would passively accept such a nomination then there could be no threat to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's authority from within , or so it must have seemed . |
| 24 | ‘ Actually , ’ Doone said calmly , ‘ he is known to be able to drive his father 's jeep on the Downs expertly , and my men have discovered he was out of school last Wednesday afternoon on a field trip to Windsor Safari Park . |
| 25 | light four-wheeled open two-horse carriage , named after a figure in Greek mythology , the son of Helios , the sun , who tried , disastrously , to drive his father 's chariot . |
| 26 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 27 | Towards the end of 1182 Richard was summoned from his war in the Angoumois to attend his father 's Christmas court at Caen . |
| 28 | Prince Edward was keen to promote his father 's scheme . |
| 29 | The sisters , who had all married well , were unconcerned that Angel , with only 200 acres of grazing land in the middle of his rich cousins ' estates , had been left to pay his father 's debts . |
| 30 | Unable to locate his father 's murderers , he killed four other Salmon River settlers against whom the Nez Perce nursed particular grievances . |