Example sentences of "of his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of his father 's incapacity , Leonard grew up with all the advantages of family prestige , and few of its responsibilities . |
| 2 | ( One of his father 's particular delights was found in the Reader 's Digest , perhaps an indication of his limited energies . ) |
| 3 | The genteel and pleasant routine of life which he understood , despite the lengthening shadow of his father 's illness , was convulsed in 1943 , when Nathan Cohen died , and the family was plunged into loss and grief . |
| 4 | In a moment of youthful inspiration , the day after the funeral , he took one of his father 's bow ties , one reserved for special occasions , and opened up its seams , into which he infiltrated a message — his first poetic utterance , as he told his Spanish biographer , Alberto Manzano — long since forgotten ( or too painful to remember ? ) . |
| 5 | Leonard has been doubly cheated : of his father 's presence and his rightful position . |
| 6 | FRIDAY Alex Langdon is the fourteen-year-old son of satirical scriptwriter John ( Punch Newsrevue , and Rory Bremner gag writer ) who delivered some of his father 's best lines at this year 's Edinburgh Festival . |
| 7 | So of his falling in love with Mrs Moore we are merely informed that ‘ even if I were free to tell the story , I doubt if it has much to do with the subject of this book , ’ and of his father 's death in the late summer of 1929 that this ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 8 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 9 | Jackie Nicklaus carries the burden of his father 's name and knows it does not hit golf balls for him . |
| 10 | Jackie Nicklaus carries the burden of his father 's name and knows it does not hit golf balls for him . |
| 11 | The qualities of independence , singularity of viewpoint , and readiness to move far afield in pursuit of his inner wishes ( a characteristic of his father 's early career ) were beginning to appear in the son . |
| 12 | Probably he resented and resisted the thrust of his father 's ambition for all his sons , but especially for Edwy , the eldest , so obviously gift ed with the academic ability for professional or ‘ establishment ’ success . |
| 13 | Then he caught glimpses of the freer way of life of his father 's bachelor brother and , as he explored and fished along the canal , got to know Dad Uzzell who remained a surrogate father-figure for the rest of Edward 's life . |
| 14 | ‘ Why until now , Dad ? ’ enquired Andrew , unaware of his father 's predicament . |
| 15 | Insistence on instant cause and effect was particularly prevalent among sects such as Plymouth Brethren , and Edmund Gosse , in recording his early life , has given revealing examples of his father 's inflexible thinking . |
| 16 | If the auguries for Branwell Bronte were , at best , uncertain , the same could not have been said of the last leave-taking of one of his father 's predecessors at Haworth , the Rev. William Grimshaw ( 1508–63 ) , of whom John Wesley wrote : |
| 17 | Children can react in a very matter-of-fact way , like the little boy who , in the aftermath of his father 's death , climbs into his mother 's bed in the mornings . |
| 18 | Jacob 's taking advantage of his father 's blindness and frailty , and his deceiving him at one of the most solemn moments of his life , are reminiscent of the shame and humiliation brought to Noah by his son Ham . |
| 19 | After a while , he took out one of his father 's old police notebooks and started to draw aeroplanes . |
| 20 | Even Dmitri 's sorrow had been mostly used up by the fading of his father 's life , remorselessly , year by year . |
| 21 | For the last 18 months of his father 's life , partly for professional reasons , Richard returned to England with his Canadian-born wife Shelley , a holistic health consultant , and cared for his father , weaning him off drugs through homoeopathic remedies , acupuncture and massage . |
| 22 | Van Leer inherited some of his father 's acumen but none of his money and certainly none of his love for money . |
| 23 | Young Joseph , soon to assume the burden of his father 's chieftainship , also inherited his father 's dignity and wisdom . |
| 24 | Beyond the Prospect of his Father 's Grove . |
| 25 | Clive Knox was then a teenager on the family farm right next to the construction site ; some of his father 's land was taken for the development . |
| 26 | Hearing of his father 's recovery , Lachlan leapt up the stair to visit him , but was turned from his door . |
| 27 | If this has to be done it must be ( for technical reasons ) within three years of his father 's death — by 30 May 1977 . |
| 28 | John , as a child , loved dressing up ; he and his friends played with old clothes kept in a big trunk , and his cousin Petrie writes that the costumes of his father 's club gave him opportunities to indulge in this game . |
| 29 | He had gone to stay during the school holidays with the children of a farmer who was one of his father 's clients . |
| 30 | His interest in them , foreshadowed by the pipe-cleaner dancers on their cardboard stages , was provoked by the gift of a puppet theatre from a friend of his father 's . |