Example sentences of "by his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 2 | That seems to have been inspired by his father 's excellent library , as well as the spiritual contact with him that such studying brought . |
| 3 | This underlines perhaps the damage done to him by his father 's death , which appears to have robbed him of the memory of many of the normal sensations . |
| 4 | Anglo-Amalgamated , for example , enabled Michael Powell to make an astonishing , if short-lived , comeback with Peeping Tom ( 1959 ) , which was scripted by Hammer hand Leo Marks and follows the murderous career of a seemingly gentle young focus-puller who has been psychologically damaged by his father 's pain experiments and gets his kicks from filming women in their death agonies , inflicted by the bayonet at the end of his tripod . |
| 5 | He got them when he was run over by his father 's new Grand Am . |
| 6 | He was the son of Joshua Green ( b. 1725 ) by his father 's first wife Catherine Simpson , whom he had married on 22nd February 1756 , and who died on 5th September 1760 in her 27th year , just eleven days after giving birth to her son William on the 25th August . |
| 7 | Jonna opened his mouth to speak but was stopped by his father 's upraised hand . |
| 8 | His view of the Queen was obscured by his father 's back . |
| 9 | Ian was very upset by his father 's intransigent attitude but he knew what he wanted to do and that was to pursue his studies by every means possible , although by now doubts were beginning to cloud his mind . |
| 10 | In 1779 he began work on a German Singspiel , Zaïde , to a text by his father 's old friend , Herr Schachtner . |
| 11 | Dickie had just taken the entrance examination required by his father 's old public school . |
| 12 | Edward V was in his hands , and so probably by this date was Clarence 's son , Edward earl of Warwick , who was barred by his father 's attainder , but whose title was otherwise better than Richard 's own . |
| 13 | When Henry , who had not been present at the death-bed , arrived for the funeral , he at first refused to take the oath but eventually , confronted by his father 's decomposing body , he agreed to do so . |
| 14 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 15 | Roscarrock could ill afford it , but short of putting the child out in the street he had little alternative ; so they struck hands on it , and that evening , when the money had been paid over and a receipt obtained , Tristram returned home in the company of Jennifer Gristy to be greeted by his father 's stinging sarcasm . |
| 16 | Stung by his father 's words , Chuck dashed forward across the clearing . |
| 17 | ‘ No , no , ’ says Howard , smiling to himself , but touched by his father 's concern . |
| 18 | Mynne 's son and heir , also George , who died three or four years later , left cash legacies largely in the form of sums still owing by his father 's debtors . |
| 19 | He had two brothers and two more sisters by his father 's third wife . |
| 20 | and flavoured by his father 's inveterate storytelling and relish for magic tricks . |
| 21 | Inspired perhaps by his father 's early photographic inventions , he took a special interest in colour photography . |
| 22 | There were two sons by his father 's second marriage . |
| 23 | Though eclipsed by his elder brother , Thomas ( later first Marquis of Wharton , q.v. ) , and cutting less of a dash than his two other brothers , William ( by his father 's third marriage ) , the wit and gallant , slain in a duel , and Henry , the soldier politician who died young while campaigning in Ireland , Goodwin Wharton nevertheless played no small part in post-1688 Whig politics . |
| 24 | Li Yuan had looked down ; now he looked up again , surprised by his father 's words . |
| 25 | Yuan answered softly , touched to the core by his father 's words . |
| 26 | Before his death , the late Earl himself revealed how he suspected the estate was haunted by his father 's spirit . |
| 27 | Pippin too now had new hopes in Francia which seemed to be threatened by his father 's rapprochement with Lothar . |
| 28 | The bales under Paul moved , but he was kept from slipping by his father 's hand , firm on his good arm . |
| 29 | Edward V was in his hands , and so probably by this date was Clarence 's son , Edward earl of Warwick , who was barred by his father 's attainder , but whose title was otherwise better than Richard 's own . |
| 30 | Ken was momentarily saddened by his father 's death . |