Example sentences of "father 's [noun] [conj] [pron] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had his father 's looks and his mother 's brains , Lucille liked to say , Henri-Patrick should be well blessed . |
| 2 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 3 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the great-grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 4 | When we use the term ‘ uncle ’ for example , the listener can not tell from this whether we mean our father 's brother or our mother 's brother . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And as a child his own household included not only his father 's father but his mother 's grandmother , who spent most of her days hidden away ‘ in her own cabin ’ , but who would emerge on Sundays , always knitting a long stocking . |