Example sentences of "to his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 2 | Coming second , particularly to a course they once owned , is not a little irksome to the amiable Richard Muddle , a former Flat jockey , who allied his vast international racing experience to his father 's business acumen to bring a whole new concept of sound commercial practice to racecourse management in this country . |
| 3 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 4 | His many medals and Order of the Red Star testified to his father 's unwavering faith in the system . |
| 5 | 12 Mozart 's earliest surviving letter , a postscript to his father 's letter of 14 December 1769 . |
| 6 | Wearily he mounted to his father 's room . |
| 7 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 8 | He was educated at a boarding school in Darlington and his family moved many times due to his father 's job in the Royal Air Force . |
| 9 | Yet nothing had changed since , and his worry now was not for the competition , but for what lay beyond , what would happen to Firelight when he left school in the summer and joined the ranks of the unemployed or , with doubtful luck , got on to his father 's building site . |
| 10 | George Borrow was to wander many roads before being invited back to his father 's home county . |
| 11 | His first formal education was received in the reading school kept at Ottery by ‘ Old Dame Key ’ , a relative of Sir Joshua Reynolds , and at six years old he progressed to his father 's grammar school , where he quickly surpassed all his contemporaries . |
| 12 | After his education , he was apprenticed to his father 's coach-building premises , graduating after three years to an office position which he retained until his father retired in 1890 . |
| 13 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 14 | Lāla Bahādur 's desultory grizzling , which for some time had provided a steady accompaniment to his father 's voice , suddenly broke into an urgent heartfelt wail . |
| 15 | He had been to his father 's lawyers , to his father 's banking partners and advisors ; to his stockbrokers at the Bourse ; to his accountants . |
| 16 | He had been to his father 's lawyers , to his father 's banking partners and advisors ; to his stockbrokers at the Bourse ; to his accountants . |
| 17 | Thanks to his father 's pre-war prudence , a fortune was there ; it simply had to be deployed . |
| 18 | He attended private views , and with the help of his Oxford friend , Christian Glendinning , cousin to his former tutor Hugo , he began to buy paintings , and to add to his father 's unrivalled collection of twentieth-century European art . |
| 19 | In addition to his father 's considerable herds , he had built up a sizable flock of his own and dreaded the thought of a harsh winter . |
| 20 | Although so alike physically , she felt sure that Jonna would not stand up to his father 's rage , as George would have done . |
| 21 | Nicu 's political career owed everything to his father 's power . |
| 22 | He was clearly so fearful of the answer to his father 's unasked question that he scarcely dared pose it himself , but then summoned up the courage . |
| 23 | Paul went up with his heavy tread to his father 's room . |
| 24 | We can see how Mill resolves the issue if we turn to his editorial footnote to his father 's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind ( 1869 ) . |
| 25 | Henceforth he supported York until Anselm 's death brought him back to his father 's policy of supporting the unity of the Church under the southern see , By this time , however , it was too late to alter the general swing away from overlordships such as that claimed by Canterbury . |
| 26 | A son belongs to his father 's clan and inherits property and position in his father 's patriline . |
| 27 | After Cromwell 's death in 1658 the republican system of government soon fell apart and in May 1660 Charles II returned peacefully to his father 's throne . |
| 28 | The judgement on the Earl of Rent was annulled , and his son , a minor , was granted the right to succeed to his father 's title and lands . |
| 29 | In December 1330 Edward wrote to David asking him to give effect to his father 's promise and restore Wake and Beaumont to their Scottish lands ; but the Scots prevaricated , and in the autumn of 1331 Edward 's policy towards Scotland hardened , influenced no doubt by the fact that the final payment of Bruce 's indemnity had been received at midsummer . |
| 30 | Togodumnus had succeeded to his father 's kingdom and was also hostile to Rome . |