Example sentences of "in his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never seems to take time off : a friend tells of how Joey , Mr Lee 's young son , once protested by scrawling his own name in his father 's diary for an appointment . |
| 2 | Jack fell quickly into the routine of looking out for the absurdities in his father 's speech to put into a P'dayta-Pie for Warnie ; but he had no heart for it . |
| 3 | The ‘ he ’ is Shoeless Joe Jackson ( Ray Liotta ) , a disgraced member of the Chicago team who threw the World Series back in his father 's time . |
| 4 | There follows an account of Edward 's slight involvement in his father 's political activities , especially his schoolboy advocacy during the Home Rule election when his ‘ enthusiasm pleased my father ’ . |
| 5 | As his own prose essays on ‘ Nature ’ were being admired by the adolescent girls in the Young People 's Guild at the Unitarian chapel , and approved by the minister , by his father and by Ashcroft Noble , and eventually published in sectarian and national journals , Edward discovered the English poets , first slowly under imposition and then , in a rush , in his father 's wide-ranging library . |
| 6 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 7 | Dressed in his father 's shirt , his mop of black hair savagely pruned and his skin scrubbed and glowing , he looked like a thin bewildered stranger trapped within the glass . |
| 8 | In response to a petition by the ‘ prelates , earls , barons and commonalty of the realm ’ , Edward II was compelled to agree that the Forest perambulations made in his father 's reign should be enforced in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Forest , provided that : |
| 9 | Pepin directed campaigns against the Slavs in Bohemia ; Louis conducted campaigns in southern Italy , though he was by no means a military leader by nature ; and Charles the Younger led forces against the Saxons in his father 's name . |
| 10 | The other side of this leaf contains Mozart 's earliest surviving compositions , again in his father 's hand . |
| 11 | After working in his father 's wire rope works at Halifax , Holroyd Smith struck off on his own , no doubt evoking a sigh of parental relief as he could not stop inventing and improving everything around him , from furnaces to ladies ' corsets . |
| 12 | Tony felt that one important factor had been the change in his father 's attitude so that he now seemed to understand how he felt . |
| 13 | He joined the aircraft firm of Hewlett and Blondeau at Leagrave on the outskirts of Luton before following in his father 's footsteps to George Kent 's . |
| 14 | Born in Hamburg of Dutch parents , his family moved to Dresden where he played the violin in his father 's string quartet and the King of Saxony 's orchestra . |
| 15 | Becoming a man in his father 's mould offers the boy an identity for the future , and one that will receive encouragement from family friends and relatives . |
| 16 | He thought of the dinners , for eighteen , twenty , thirty people ; he thought of the dances , and the whisper of music from the ballroom ; of the quiet afternoons he had sometimes spent in his father 's study . |
| 17 | He reinvested in his father 's stud in Ireland , and brought in Jack Dwyer , the best trainer in the country , poaching him from the stables of his mother 's old friend , Hugh Westminster , without a qualm . |
| 18 | Despite his youth he had travelled alone , sleeping in barns along the route , with which he had been familiar through previous trips in his father 's company . |
| 19 | Then he was made redundant and started an apprenticeship in his father 's trade of toolmaking — until he got fed up with it . |
| 20 | The medals , expected to make £2,000 at Sotheby 's next month , were never on show in his father 's house , he said . |
| 21 | Then , we remind ourselves of the supreme example of Christ , who placed his trust in his father 's love and ascended the hill of Calvary for our redemption . |
| 22 | He had spent four unwilling years as an articled clerk in his father 's law office , before being able to enrol as a student . |
| 23 | From the age of four , Davis had been on the stage , starting out as a novelty turn in his father 's vaudeville dance routine . |
| 24 | But the vivid memory , the unforgettable picture , is of the tall son carried in his father 's arms , carried so easily , so gently . |
| 25 | The Second Son did indeed meet me as always , but this time I stayed once again in his bedroom in his father 's Abu Dhabi villa , and this time I ate my meals with the Sheikh , his men and his two eldest sons . |
| 26 | Poor little sweet , he thought , splashing in the hot water in his father 's bathroom . |
| 27 | Louis was quite sobered by that , as all his kerb drill and road-sense instructions came back to him in his father 's stern voice . |
| 28 | He was relying on the hope that he might , at least , become a servant back in his father 's house . |
| 29 | Whelan has played in only three North Region events and six pro-ams this year , spending the rest of the time working in his father 's restaurant and glassware gift shop to earn the £1,200 he needed to get to the School . |
| 30 | Hamdi worked in his father 's car-components business in Selly Oak . |