Example sentences of "in his family 's [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the miller unleashes this stallion to plunge straight off after the wild mares in the fen ( 4057 – 66 ) he unwittingly unleashes the whole course of events that will lead to the " swyvinges " in his family 's bedchamber that night . |
| 3 | Active in his family 's business , he visited China in 1927 and there resolved to devote his life to Chinese connoisseurship . |
| 4 | Abel Smith II also became a partner in his family 's bank in Nottingham , whose management he took over on his father 's death in 1757 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He slept on a sofa-bed in his family 's living room , surrounded by homework and books . |
| 7 | BARNSLEY midfielder John Gregg must count his lucky stars that he can follow in his family 's football tradition . |
| 8 | This is made clear from the start by the tale which Beatrice tells Catherine of a boy who betrayed his uncle — illegally hidden in his family 's house — and who was dragged by his feet down flights of stairs and spat on in the street by his father and brothers as a result . |
| 9 | Or rather , Alan bobbed back , to float again at that level from which ( in his family 's eyes at least ) Carolyn had dragged him down . |