Example sentences of "his dad 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's this man and woman walking by with lots of shopping bags and a little boy hanging on to his Dad 's belt . |
| 2 | He looks scared of me , and hangs even tighter on to his Dad 's belt . |
| 3 | He crawled out of the hide and laid the wire , the plan that he 'd drawn and his Dad 's wire-cutters on the ground . |
| 4 | But he had n't dared bring his Dad 's saw . |
| 5 | Lee stood there on the other side of the branch , holding Caspar with the lead made with his Dad 's wire . |
| 6 | He 'd most likely nick his Dad 's wire and cutters too . |
| 7 | His Mum went to the drawer in his Dad 's bureau and took out some papers , leafing through them . |
| 8 | Somehow he 'd have to get up to the wood today to fetch down his Dad 's clippers and wire . |
| 9 | Philip saw him staring at his Dad 's swimming trophies . |
| 10 | He picked up one of his Dad 's cups and read the inscription . |
| 11 | She moved some of the parcels off his Dad 's chair . |
| 12 | He kept thinking of Lee out in the shed fiddling with his Dad 's tools , nicking nails , messing with his bike . |
| 13 | Philip saw her catch his Dad 's eye . |
| 14 | Then he took it out to the back and burnt every bit of paper in his Dad 's incinerator . |
| 15 | Philip straightened his Dad 's trophies where Lee had moved them . |
| 16 | Bart ( anagram : Brat ) , a kid with a spiky flat-top , is perpetually in trouble : he enjoys taking snapshots of his own butt , and loses his dad 's job for him . |
| 17 | Dressing up as a 50 's teenager is encouraged but by no means compulsory and any man dusting off his dad 's winkle pickers gets an award for merit ! |
| 18 | If his dad 's insane , Vern 's probably fairly insane himself . |
| 19 | Yes , and Harold is still doing the job today , having outstripped his dad 's term of office , still going strong with 42 not out : 82 years ' service between the two of them . |
| 20 | Andrew has been prompted to make a model car like his dad 's . |
| 21 | A natural follow-up would be for him to make a model van , perhaps like one of his dad 's . |
| 22 | Ideas of speed might be introduced ; his dad 's van goes faster than the toy van in the garage . |
| 23 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 24 | The much-maligned Forest 'keeper literally let two points slip away when he handed Andy Clarke a 12th-minute equaliser after Nigel Clough had got his dad 's team off to a flying start . |
| 25 | ‘ Aye , he used to look out for his dad 's cart on a Saturday at about 4.45 and he 'd wait for it to come across the line there . |
| 26 | A SCHOOLBOY was robbed of his mountain bike as he pedalled down the hard shoulder of a motorway to get help after his dad 's car broke down . |
| 27 | LITTLE Christopher Cunliffe was shot in the eye by his dad 's best mate — after the family friend joked he would ‘ quieten him down ’ by pointing an air rifle at him . |
| 28 | There he followed his dad 's philosophy ; he kept his head down and worked hard . |
| 29 | His earnings will fall well short of his dad 's . |
| 30 | Police are probing allegations that Sage , 16 , hatched a bizarre plan to kill his dad 's handyman . |