Example sentences of "his son 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 2 | Uderzo 's father was an Italian lute-maker who had moved to France shortly before his son 's birth in 1927 . |
| 3 | The next day a father broke his son 's arm . |
| 4 | Moran looked from his son 's face to his wife 's but his own remained expressionless . |
| 5 | Some compensation for these flops was provided by Carol Reed 's The Fallen Idol ( 1947 ) , an adaptation of Graham Green 's short story about a young boy 's loss of innocence , and Anthony Asquith 's The Winslow Boy ( 1948 ) , an adapted stage-play about the struggles of a naval cadet 's father to prove his son 's innocence of theft . |
| 6 | Robert Brooks , a factory worker , fractured his son 's collar bones , legs and an arm , and broke his skull . |
| 7 | Even though Prean senior has chosen to sit out from executive committee meetings discussing his son 's request , there is a favourable attitude towards reform . |
| 8 | He had failed to gain a scholarship to St. Paul 's and one assumes that his father decided that his son 's lack of ambition and apparent aimlessness about a career did not justify the money spent on a schooling that should naturally lead to Oxford or Cambridge , and thereafter to the Civil Service . |
| 9 | The local grammar school had put too much of a gawky human edge on his son 's image . |
| 10 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 11 | He still sounded friendly , like a wise and understanding father , forgiving his son 's immature behaviour . |
| 12 | Now he lifts up his eyes again , and sees the animal that is his son 's salvation , a ram caught in a thicket . |
| 13 | When he said again and again no more of his wages would go to Ellen for his son 's upkeep she concurred , did not challenge the underlying assumption that Oreste was no longer his responsibility . |
| 14 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 15 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 16 | He also had a love for soccer but his father , Harold , steered him away from that as well , fearing that his son 's competitiveness , allied to his lack of inches , might lead to him getting hurt . |
| 17 | Mr Michael Bland , Thomas 's father , said yesterday it was too early to know exactly what bearing the ruling would have on his son 's case , but he said their campaign would continue . |
| 18 | Through the wonders of adoption , Peter Pan has become Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) , a 40-year old wheeler-dealer American lawyer too busy with his mobile phone to turn up at his son 's baseball games or take much heed of his daughter . |
| 19 | Through the wonders of adoption , Peter Pan has become Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) , a 40-year old wheeler-dealer American lawyer too busy with his mobile phone to turn up at his son 's baseball games or take much heed of his daughter . |
| 20 | After his son 's band , joined for the occasion by Minerva , played ‘ Not Out ’ , with Nina handling the vocal , Cameron sat at the piano . |
| 21 | However , about the time of his son 's birth , Richard senior was converted through reading the Bible . |
| 22 | Collinson had been told by John Bartram of his son 's artistic talent : ‘ Botany and drawing are his darling delight … |
| 23 | One Windscale worker who lived in Seascale at the time said he recorded radioactive contamination on his son 's shoes which was almost six times the level used to signify a hazard inside his laboratory . |
| 24 | Moreover , the fact that we know so much about Mozart 's early years is due entirely to Leopold 's desire to record the events in his son 's life . |
| 25 | In February 1772 Leopold wrote to the publisher J. G. I. Breitkopf in Leipzig offering some of his son 's compositions for publication . |
| 26 | So with his son 's reputation now unequivocally established Leopold may have regarded the time as propitious to secure a position for Mozart at the Viennese court . |
| 27 | Mozart finally made plans to travel to Paris in the spring with Johann Baptist Wendling , a flautist at the Mannheim court orchestra , and the oboist Friedrich Ramm , but nevertheless Leopold 's letters show him becoming increasingly exasperated , above all at being in debt as a result of his son 's activities . |
| 28 | He continued on 13 July having received his son 's initial letter : |
| 29 | On 23 November Leopold tried another tack , using his knowledge of his son 's love for Aloysia Weber , who had gone to Munich with the court : |
| 30 | ‘ Did John Knox come to his son 's funeral ? ’ |