Example sentences of "from his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 2 | ( The ‘ on decay ’ aspect is significant , encapsulating a cynical view of life , not least in the shattered security resulting from his father 's death . ) |
| 3 | The worst moment , apart from his father 's collapse while being helped to the toilet , had been going on stage on the night of his death , and hearing Lydia Dorinskaya say , ‘ All that lives must die , /Passing through Nature to eternity . ’ |
| 4 | According to the Men 's Movement , second only to the father is the older male who will help teach a young man what it means to be a man and help remove him from his father 's influence . |
| 5 | At 14 he ran away , deciding to seek out help from his father 's family . |
| 6 | Lachlan 's hand fell from his father 's arm . |
| 7 | His choice may be a little different from his father 's present choice . |
| 8 | On his father 's death , Farrar abandoned his professional career content to live off the income from his father 's estate which he managed admirably , and instead concentrated on what was to be his lifetime 's consuming interest — the compilation of literature on deafness . |
| 9 | W. H. Auden once said that he learned to read by taking down the Encyclopaedia Britannica from his father 's densely stocked shelves . |
| 10 | It is no mystery that a child can feel compelled to judge himself from his father 's viewpoint , although it may seem so if one uses Freudian language and starts puzzling about what it could mean for an instinctive egoist to ‘ introject ’ the image of his father . |
| 11 | As incessant rain lashed the town in late July , 1798 , to be followed on the 28th of that month by one of the worst floods in living memory , John 's health can hardly have improved — and who knows what bacteria he was daily picking up from his father 's butchery ? |
| 12 | ‘ We go for that old-style thing , ’ explains James Hendy , 21 , recently third in the Cornish and Open surf contest , and taking the day off from his father 's carpet business in nearby Truro . |
| 13 | The assistant chaplain of Norwich prison , who drove around in an old Maestro , carefully invested cash inherited from his father 's shipping business . |
| 14 | Sparks flew up from the pavement only a fraction of an inch from his father 's head . |
| 15 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 16 | An outstanding papal tenth from his father 's reign was collected in December 1307 ; in 1309 a triennial tenth was ordered and in 1313 a sexennial tenth . |
| 17 | He visited their house in Chiswick once in 1953 , soon after Lousada had inherited paintings from his father 's collection . |
| 18 | Then Monks laughed again about the money Oliver should have got from his father 's will . |
| 19 | When he was nine he read Hamlet , no doubt a copy from his father 's bookshop , and , as he told Mrs Thrale later , when he came to the ghost scene he left the kitchen fireside and stood reading at the street door in Lichfield in order to ‘ have people about ’ . |
| 20 | His move away from the family home and into English affairs resulted from his father 's position as the household knight and dependent of Peter of Savoy , Earl of Richmond [ q.v. ] , uncle of Henry III 's queen , Eleanor [ q.v. ] , and a powerful influence at Henry 's court . |
| 21 | Not only was he an important member of the ministry ( though without a cabinet place ) , he was also , from his father 's death in 1706 , the head of his family and the leader of the Tory interest throughout south Wales . |
| 22 | He began his bookselling activities in about 1770 from his father 's shop , but had moved to 13 Aldgate High Street by the end of 1773 ; it was at this time that his first publications came out , among them the Ladies ' Museum ( 1773–1814 ) , and that he began to explore the possibilities of circulating libraries . |
| 23 | Morrison went from his father 's school to Melbourne University in 1879 to study medicine . |
| 24 | In 1890 Milner published The Art and Practice of Landscape Gardening , with most of the examples drawn from his father 's work . |
| 25 | ‘ Matthew 's different ; there 's a weakness there from his father 's side and his uncle knew it . |
| 26 | It was , therefore , with exaggerated haste that he undid his black tie , pulled the white shirt over his head , substituted a red T-shirt and a pair of old Norfolk drab cords that he 'd salvaged from his father 's wardrobe . |
| 27 | The evidence for the years 838 – 40 scarcely ever allows us to differentiate Charles 's political activity from his father 's . |
| 28 | Thomas seems to have reconsidered his allegiance by 1471 , although it is possible that he actually died on Warwick 's side and that his inclusion among those remembered springs from his father 's later links with Gloucester . |
| 29 | In my own mind I ca n't separate his death from his father 's . ’ |
| 30 | Nicholas 's son had to decide whether and to what extent he was prepared to diverge from his father 's methods . |