Example sentences of "his father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another time , Lucy talked about Jeremy , his father 's wastrel shadow ever in the background . |
| 4 | Midges drawn by the smell of their sweat swarmed round their heads and young Angus began to regret his curiosity , but his father 's face was set and dark in a way that froze out complaints , or chatter of any kind . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lyon soon emulated his father 's zestful example . |
| 8 | Because of his father 's incapacity , Leonard grew up with all the advantages of family prestige , and few of its responsibilities . |
| 9 | ( One of his father 's particular delights was found in the Reader 's Digest , perhaps an indication of his limited energies . ) |
| 10 | Additionally , his father 's side of the family were very enthusiastic adherents of the British Empire and in addition to their being ( as Leonard preferred to call them ) ‘ gentlemen of Hebrew persuasion , ’ they were perhaps more British in some respects than the British themselves , recalling what Hugh MacLennan said in his superb novel of the period , The Two Solitudes : ‘ The French are Frencher than France and the English are more British than England ever dared to be . ’ |
| 11 | The genteel and pleasant routine of life which he understood , despite the lengthening shadow of his father 's illness , was convulsed in 1943 , when Nathan Cohen died , and the family was plunged into loss and grief . |
| 12 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 13 | In a moment of youthful inspiration , the day after the funeral , he took one of his father 's bow ties , one reserved for special occasions , and opened up its seams , into which he infiltrated a message — his first poetic utterance , as he told his Spanish biographer , Alberto Manzano — long since forgotten ( or too painful to remember ? ) . |
| 14 | He remembered seeing his father 's face for the last time ; the coffin being lowered into its final resting place — and the hateful wake which followed . |
| 15 | That seems to have been inspired by his father 's excellent library , as well as the spiritual contact with him that such studying brought . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He also recalls his father 's love of Sir Harry Lauder 's songs and those of Gilbert and Sullivan — important aspects of an otherwise sombre man . |
| 18 | He recalled that Ian Duthie , a graduate of Edinburgh University , -was one of his tutors in ‘ English 101 ’ ( a compulsory subject ) , who provided interesting connections with his father 's accent and the general Scottishness of Westmount . |
| 19 | Behind the indecision lay a youth torn in one direction by the family business , not least perhaps his father 's shadow hanging over him ; and the preferences of his mind and ever prolific imagination in the other . |
| 20 | ( The ‘ on decay ’ aspect is significant , encapsulating a cynical view of life , not least in the shattered security resulting from his father 's death . ) |
| 21 | It is always dangerous to draw individual implications from social and psychological survey-work such as this , but it does fit : Leonard 's admission of insomnia , of disturbing dreams and nightmares , his high sensitivity , his creative abilities ; not least his father 's demise and his mother 's need to attend to him during his frequent bouts of sickness before it . |
| 22 | Why was his father 's pain involved ? ’ |
| 23 | Moreover his stark question , ‘ Why was his father 's pain involved ? ’ raises a very different note . |
| 24 | In what ways did he feel it , his father 's pain ? |
| 25 | Leonard has been doubly cheated : of his father 's presence and his rightful position . |
| 26 | For all this he has ever been grateful for his uncles , careful considerations — as his father 's executors — of his family , and especially of their kindness towards him personally . |
| 27 | The dedication was a gesture of pained sorrow at his father 's death as much as an act of filial piety , and the natural way to do it was to reproduce the style and character of his essentially Edwardian father . |
| 28 | The book was offered with a sharp recollection of his own family , not only regarding his father 's absence of many years ( whose duty it was , formally , to say the prayer ) , but in the dedication of the book , another link with the past broken , another mainstay , albeit distant , removed : ‘ This book is dedicated to the memory of my grandmother Mrs Lyon Cohen , and to the memory of my grandfather Rabbi Solomon Klinitsky . ’ |
| 29 | He never seems to take time off : a friend tells of how Joey , Mr Lee 's young son , once protested by scrawling his own name in his father 's diary for an appointment . |
| 30 | FRIDAY Alex Langdon is the fourteen-year-old son of satirical scriptwriter John ( Punch Newsrevue , and Rory Bremner gag writer ) who delivered some of his father 's best lines at this year 's Edinburgh Festival . |