Example sentences of "to his [noun sg] '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 | up to erm to his dad 's wine bar or something |
| 4 | ‘ Uncle ’ Hardy had no direct heir , but left Letheringsett to his sister 's son , who was called William Hardy Cozens . |
| 5 | If he had no children , an emperor might adopt a son from another gens , or he might leave the throne to his sister 's son , who would of course bear the name of another family . |
| 6 | It belongs to his sister 's family . ’ |
| 7 | But Tom did n't respond to his sister 's words . |
| 8 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 9 | I were n't gon na put myself out for them then he got up and stormed out and then he went back to his sister 's took his |
| 10 | Some time later , when the house had settled down to sleep , Lord Charles tiptoed out of his room and slipped along the corridors to his lady 's chamber . |
| 11 | In his Portrait , Joyce offers a development of style corresponding to his hero 's development from the dawning of linguistic consciousness , in childhood , to maturity . |
| 12 | She had deliberately kept out of his way until now , leaving the task of showing him upstairs to his godmother 's room to Mrs Diggory . |
| 13 | The 22-year-old Cockney is so lonely in the Midlands he makes a 300mile round-trip to his mum 's house , a bus ride from Upton Park , immediately after Forest home games . |
| 14 | De Niro is always worth watching and here the mixture of confusion and hurt pride he brings to his character 's plight is very convincing . |
| 15 | Do you think if I , do you think if I gave him a fright , s see the , time he says he 's going off to his granny 's and I say away you go , and my mam says she 's not taking him . |
| 16 | It was , he said , his job to cook and see to his master 's clothes and open the door and go marketing , not to be a spy . |
| 17 | Over a period of time , the dog was moulded to his master 's needs , calling on all the virtues of his ancestors : herding ability , speed , guarding ability , strength and power , but most of all intelligence . |
| 18 | Mr Chester 's valet who , after Chester 's death , ‘ true to his master 's creed , eloped with all the cash and movables he could lay his hands on , and started as a finished gentleman on his own account ’ . |
| 19 | Whatever the bodyservant picks up may be grist to his master 's mill . |
| 20 | She writes that , indeed , when there were balls or fêtes , there was sometimes a queue for the public lavatories , and then a rich bourgeois might pay a nobleman 's servant as much as four louis d'or to be conducted to his master 's privy . |
| 21 | After acceding to his master 's wishes Nine Turning Mirrors would , I am quite sure , make his own arrangements with a view to ensuring that one wanderer would not be allowed to return home bringing , perhaps , the disease of dissatisfaction . |
| 22 | It was all there in the way , in Czech , he called the dog off ; as the dog immediately obeyed , let go of her and went to his master 's side , the man , his charm of yesterday nowhere to be seen , blasted her in English with an angry , ‘ Have n't you any sense ? ’ |
| 23 | The beloved cross-terrier , found sitting next to his master 's dead body on Saturday afternoon in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , was judged to be too ill by animal experts . |
| 24 | In July , Siward , Earl of Northumbria , sent a small embassy north to his kinswoman 's husband Macbeth of Alba , requesting the courtesy of a meeting to discuss matters of moment between them . |
| 25 | Leopold described the visit to his landlord 's wife : |
| 26 | Karelius , who had never disliked the French as much as an Englishman should , felt himself warming to his country 's enemies . |
| 27 | Adam Drabo has since become a folk hero , for the inspiration he has given to his country 's people to rid themselves of corrupt government . |
| 28 | His weight is further forward , but each passenger must suit his style to his driver 's technique . |
| 29 | It was Cizek 's reputation that drew him to Vienna ; it was the spirit of this outstanding man that he brought to his life 's work in Yorkshire . |
| 30 | In 1905 Hammerton was invited to join Harmsworth 's Amalgamated Press , then the largest periodical-publishing empire in the world , and for the next seventeen years his employer 's energetic and ‘ radium-like personality ’ , as described by Hammerton , provided him with the background to his life 's work . |