Example sentences of "his grandfather 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ knows ‘ Some vague recollection of tranquillity from his grandfather 's scrapbook . ’ |
| 2 | ( The biography of Evan published in Welsh in 1987 appeared under the title Llyfr Rhodyn ei Daid — ‘ His grandfather 's fern book ’ . ) |
| 3 | His grandfather had been a master baker and , in one of the many family stories Mark had heard at his grandfather 's knee , he had been told of how his great-grandfather had served Benjamin Disraeli with a standing daily order of twelve French loaves , burnt and rasped . |
| 4 | A man explained that he was called Ibrahim to keep alive the name of his grandfather 's brother , killed without issue perhaps at the battle of Yellow Hill , or at Kawz , or at Hawaria ; and the same patterns appeared in other genealogies : the names of men without descendants , killed in battle , are recalled for use in a collateral line in later generations . |
| 5 | The Dickensian flavour in his memoir is strong , and also conscious , for he wrote that his grandfather 's shop ‘ outvied the Old Curiosity Shop . ’ |
| 6 | Hector struck out , and his blind fist hit his grandfather 's throat . |
| 7 | It seemed to be heading from the far side of his grandfather 's bed towards the door . |
| 8 | Hector was laughing on his stool beside his grandfather 's chair . |
| 9 | Kleinwort recalls the values his grandfather 's generation espoused . |
| 10 | His mind ran stuff ; heirlooms , his grandfather 's gold watch , untraceable treasures he might claim . |
| 11 | He remembered his uncle rushing in to borrow his grandfather 's gun , but the police fortunately intervened before a riot ensued . |
| 12 | When the Chilaw kachcheri queried a sale voucher counterfoil submitted by a headman , it was explained that the seller had branded the animal with his grandfather 's name , Nicholas , because he believed it a lucky name in cattle breeding . |
| 13 | But he says that when his grandfather and his grandfather 's brother were starting the Store and stayed late every night to do the office work , they used to hear sounds in the walls and they used to tell each other there were little Store people . |
| 14 | He told me , some time after we were married , that when he was at school he used to show round a photograph one of his mother 's lovers had taken of part of Versailles , and say it was his grandfather 's rectory in Ireland . |
| 15 | After the service , when everyone had gone to the reception at his father 's house , Duncan had returned to the fresh brown earth mound and prayed for his grandfather 's soul . |
| 16 | As he looked towards the Iconostasis , the wall that is filled with important and unique icons , he tried to re-create his grandfather 's torment , his inner pain and despair . |
| 17 | The bishop had asked whether Huxley would prefer to think of himself descended from an ape on his grandfather 's or his grandmother 's side , thereby touching the sensitive nerve of female ancestry . |
| 18 | My father , old but gritty , glamorous in the eyes of the class of '68 , a South London wide boy with an authentic background , described his grandfather 's funeral , about 1912 , when a whole other family , wife , children , grandchildren , turned up out of the blue from somewhere further down the line where they 'd been established on the navvy 's journey north . |
| 19 | During 1336–7 , faced by two interrelated problems and by an aggressive and ambitious French king , Edward , in moves reminiscent of his grandfather 's strategy , recruited allies all round France 's borders : the count of Guelders , the marquis of Juliers , the count of Hainault , the duke of Brabant and Limburg , but chief of all , Lewis of Bavaria , emperor . |
| 20 | Almost half of Edward 's sede vacante presentations were retrospective , some dating back to his grandfather 's reign , and most being based on fictitious entitlement ; considerable temptations were open to unscrupulous candidates , armed with dubious history , to challenge the rights of sitting tenants . |
| 21 | Yeah I think that 's very important that one because he understands he sees the loneliness that his grandfather 's feeling . |
| 22 | Jacob nudged Judith ; this was one of his grandfather 's chestnuts — he told it at least once a year , unfailingly on his birthday . |
| 23 | Robert , my stepson , is not to be given his grandfather 's inheritance until he is thirty . |
| 24 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 25 | His family had owned considerable estates in the East , lost after the First World War when raging inflation destroyed his grandfather 's estate . |
| 26 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 27 | It had been a debate in the House of Lords on juvenile delinquency , a subject on which His Lordship considered himself an expert since he had , indubitably , once been a boy and had , briefly , helped organise a youth club on his grandfather 's estate . |
| 28 | His enemies refused him Christian burial at first , but he was later interred in his grandfather 's kirk at Birsay . |
| 29 | , Stan ( 1890–1965 ) , comic , was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson at his grandfather 's house in Ulverston , Lancashire , 16 June 1890 , the second son in the family of four sons and one daughter of Arthur Jefferson , known as ‘ A.J. ’ , of Bishop Auckland , theatre manager , and his wife Margaret ( ‘ Madge ’ ) Metcalfe , actress , of Ulverston . |
| 30 | , James ( 1876–1947 ) , Irish labour leader and nationalist , was born in Toxteth 21 January 1876 , the second son among six children ( there was at least one daughter and one of the children did not survive infancy ) of James Larkin and his wife Mary Anne McNulty , impoverished immigrants from Ulster , and spent his early childhood in Newry at his grandfather 's house . |