Example sentences of "with his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled that Ian Duthie , a graduate of Edinburgh University , -was one of his tutors in ‘ English 101 ’ ( a compulsory subject ) , who provided interesting connections with his father 's accent and the general Scottishness of Westmount . |
| 2 | He built up Dixons , with sales last year of over £1.7 billion , after starting work at the age of 16 with his father 's portrait photography business . |
| 3 | A few hasty notes in July show that he continued to visit 6 Patten Road , and occasionally to have dinner there , until their separation became a reality , when Helen took up a resident post as governess with the Wards , at 33 Bath Road , Bedford and Edward spent August with his father 's relations at 17 Woodville Street , Pontardulais , while his younger brothers became pupils at a small denominational school in Ammanford . |
| 4 | It was the same dream as before , only this time Frankie had entered the room with his father 's long-handled axe held high above his head . |
| 5 | ‘ OK , ’ he said with his father 's brand of practical acceptance . |
| 6 | In his teens , with his father 's health deteriorating , Richard was taken to Hollywood to be his ‘ personal assistant ’ . |
| 7 | In 1907 he joined Straker Squires in Bristol and four years later teamed up with his father 's engineering firm . |
| 8 | Pancks ‘ like a journeyman Hamlet in conversation with his father 's spirit ’ , LD ii 13 . |
| 9 | Around the same time , he took his mother 's many dancing and music medals , together with his father 's accordion , and presented them to the pawnbroker . |
| 10 | This left plenty of free time during the day which he spent with his father 's horses ; he gradually became an expert at training and managing them . |
| 11 | At the age of seven , he was sent away to boarding-school and this event more or less coincided with his father 's remarriage . |
| 12 | With his father 's employees he was generous but firm . |
| 13 | With his father 's help , Victor began slowly exercising his limbs , but doctors have said that he needs controlled therapy in the city hospital — something the family will never be able to afford . |
| 14 | Jonesy was still struggling to get out of the grave , and this he managed only with his father 's help , after falling back in once . |
| 15 | He Wilby , of Barnsley , South Yorks , provided the bank with his father 's pay slips as proof of identity , magistrates in Barnsley , South Yorks , were told yesterday . |
| 16 | By the time he was five , he had , with his father 's help , composed a couple of short keyboard pieces himself . |
| 17 | Their emphasis on the responsibility of the theologian towards the Bible , and on the need for a disciplined hermeneutic which will allow the Bible itself to speak , will be found again , albeit much modified , in the thought of Karl Barth ; as too will Archibald Hodge 's principle that ‘ Christ and his work is the centre around which all Christian theology is brought into order , ’ as he put it on page 16 of the 1878 edition of his Outlines of Theology , which was first published in 1860 , and , together with his father 's Systematic Theology ( 1871 ) , is a classic textbook of the Princeton method . |
| 18 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 19 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 20 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 21 | After gaining experience with his father 's railway and with Peto , Brassey & Betts at Birkenhead , he worked under Samuel Waite Johnson at the Cowlairs ( Glasgow ) works of the Edinburgh and Glasgow ( later North British ) Railway . |
| 22 | Breaking with his father 's strong Quaker commitments , Crowley had become an Anglican by the time of his marriage in March 1682 to Mary , daughter of Charles Owen , a Londoner from a Shropshire gentry family . |
| 23 | In World War I he served first with the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry and then with his father 's regiment , the Scots Guards . |
| 24 | Oliver was playing with his father 's present , a wooden model of a tea clipper with full rigging and sails . |
| 25 | Pippin 's grievances had , unsurprisingly , nothing to do with Alemannia but a lot to do with his father 's interference in and around Aquitaine which had once , of course , been Louis 's own realm ( he had ruled it as sub-king from 781 to 814 ) . |
| 26 | But after reading reports magistrates were told the youth had had difficulty coming to terms with his father 's recent death . |