Example sentences of "his family 's " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side .
2 He had inherited his family 's respect for learning , and though not a savant himself , he nevertheless brought his children up with a healthy respect for books and the independence they instil .
3 Another connection with his family 's involvement was the presentation of the Lyon Cohen Memorial Medal ( to Mark Bercuvitz ) , and the Lazarus and Fanny Cohen Memorial Medal ( to Lewis Batshaw ) .
4 It is worth looking at , for from it sprang his fund of knowledge along with the all-important Jewish scriptures and his family 's experiences with them in eastern Europe .
5 But Leonard himself was smitten , he says , by his family 's past , by its name and meaning .
6 ( It was Lawrence who ‘ blew my cover , ’ he said , on finding that Leonard was failing to attend Law School lectures , which was all the more concerning as he had no scholarship to go there , only his family 's financial backing . )
7 He had clearly learned a thing or two from his family 's entrepreneurship , and was not willing to be confined to any form of anonymity such as overtook some would-be poets .
8 Dog squadron instructor Keith Waugh was born to be in the RAF and , after 11 satisfying years , he 's happy to say his family 's links with the force have gone to the dogs
9 In 1950 , he was Swiss sculls champion and finished third in the European championships before moving to Manila to work for his family 's private multinational company , Eduard Keller Ltd , for four years .
10 Enraged when supporters of a visiting Congress ( I ) chief minister tore down one of his family 's red and yellow standards , the Rajah rammed the visitor 's helicopter with his Jeep .
11 Robert Maxwell , the Daily Mirror publisher who once offered to buy Edwards 's shares , was rumoured yesterday to be still interested , but his family 's interest in other football League clubs — Derby and Oxford — would face problems from the Football League 's limitations on club ownership .
12 This left a mere 6 pudy for his family 's consumption and to provide seed .
13 Though the college was very Anglican , he retained all his family 's loyalty to the Congregationalist tradition and way of worship .
14 No wonder he ca n't bring himself to show much emotion at the news of his family 's demise .
15 Born 53 years ago in Eisenach , now East Germany , the son of a haberdasher who fought in the war and died shortly after it , his family 's lack of money meant he had to win scholarships to schools and university .
16 Tom is convinced that Kirsty , his family 's Border Terrier who died in 1983 aged 14 , has a spirit .
17 He slept on a sofa-bed in his family 's living room , surrounded by homework and books .
18 Weatherill , 71 , sold out of his family 's firm in 1970 when he decided to further his career in politics but will return once the election is over .
19 Flanked by his wife , Jeanne , and Mayor David Dinkins of New York , he said he had kept his illness secret since 1988 to protect his family 's privacy but had been forced to come forward after a press inquiry .
20 Mr Maxwell is asked to provide detailed information about the trusts and his family 's relationship with them , and whether any reimbursement was made in respect of the payments .
21 His family 's golfing association continued through his son Tom and grandson John , the present ( third ) generation , although he only plays occasionally .
22 Modi , cut off from his family 's allowance by the war , needed the money .
23 When he had kicked over the traces , after Cambridge — joined the City police as a flat-foot , instead of following his family 's military tradition — they had volunteered to come to London with him .
24 The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland .
25 The old blue suitcase which he carried out of Palestine in 1948 was still stuffed with his files and documents , all neatly labelled and dated — land deeds , deeds of sale , taxes , rents and maps of allotments — together with correspondence with the United Nations about the ownership of his family 's land .
26 Accordingly , Barth plays with multiple notions of plot : love intrigue ; a character trying to find the historical pattern in his family 's lives ; and textual ordering .
27 His family 's small plot of land was stolen by the Russians .
28 He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka .
29 The founder of aromatherapy as we know it was René Gattefossé , a French chemist who worked in his family 's perfumery business in the 1920s .
30 In his valley the ploughing 's started and , because his family 's small , no one could be spared to come with him to help him fetch his wood and water — and although the water 's nearby , the firewood 's half a day away .
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