Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he did n't say was that during his father 's last days in 1958 Tony gave him marijuana to ease the pain . |
| 2 | The son 's reward had been a comfortable living in England , both before and after his father 's death . |
| 3 | Wolski survived because his brother Avram put a hand to his back and despite his father 's protests pushed him forward from the line when the Germans said they wanted shoemakers and tailors . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | He was reminded of his childhood and of his father 's farm ; they too had kept a couple of goats . |
| 6 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 7 | Charles and Judith had been in Louis 's thoughts as he lay dying : he had left Charles a share of his treasure , and despatched crown , sword and sceptre to Lothar " to have on condition that he should keep his faith to Charles and Judith , and guarantee to Charles the whole share of the realm which with God and the leading men of the palace as witnesses , Lothar with his father , and in his father 's presence , had assigned to Charles " . |
| 8 | He could already see over the rue Victorie at the front and over his father 's garden at the back . |
| 9 | At the age of twenty-two he returned to Ireland and on his father 's advice sought admission to the National Deaf Mute College in America for a degree course . |
| 10 | The upshot was that Lothar was sent to Italy , " never to leave it unless on his father 's orders " . |
| 11 | Because of his father 's incapacity , Leonard grew up with all the advantages of family prestige , and few of its responsibilities . |
| 12 | It is odd , and neatly illustrative of the contradiction in Spartan attitudes , that Herodotus can say of the Spartan-led Greeks in the same period that Samos ‘ seemed to them as far away as the Rock of Gibraltar ’ , while telling elsewhere in his book of a Spartan , son of Archias , who was called Samios because of his father 's Samian links ( viii . |