Example sentences of "[prep] his parent [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , very few Romanians would have recognized Valentin Ceauşescu before his family was exposed to public denunciation after his parents ' fall . |
| 2 | ANGUISHED William McGovern , 12 , hanged himself in Wishaw , Lanarkshire , four days after his parents ' divorce . |
| 3 | Edgar Linton was still in love with her , and thought himself the happiest man on earth when he married her three years after his parents ' death . |
| 4 | The earliest two , student pictures , show his humour and vitality ; the third , The Big Shave , a ( literally ) cutting allegory about America 's self-inflicted wounds in Vietnam , exemplifies his fascination with blood , and also explains why he grew a beard ; the longest , Italianamerican , is a warm but surprisingly static home movie of his parents ' reminiscences . |
| 5 | In 1867 he accepted a timely invitation to return to his former employer , and in the reassuring familiarity of his parents ' home in Bockhampton he was able to assess his career , temporarily rededicating himself to architecture while continuing to hope for success as a writer , if not of poetry , of popular novels . |
| 6 | Herbert 's magnanimity in making do with the smaller bedroom , so that John might have plenty of room for the puppets , made Hanns envious ; the more so , as he had to sleep on a couch in the dining-room of his parents ' boarding-house . |
| 7 | The therapist pointed out the parallels between the two situations : how he had reacted badly to the break-up of his parents ' marriage , and now similarly to the end of his relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 8 | Many Romanians took a prurient pleasure in whispering news of the latest outrage , but many of the alleged crimes of the ‘ Crown Prince ’ were invented by the fertile imagination of his parents ' subjects . |
| 9 | Then he fled to Mexico to live with the family of his parents ' Mexican maid . |
| 10 | It was midnight when he finally eased the Triumph to a stop in front of his parents ' house and swayed gently up the steps . |
| 11 | But 42 days after the crash there was a knock on the door of his parents ' home — and it was Carl . |
| 12 | Despite being a loving child , fond of his parents ' and teacher 's attention , he had serious temper tantrums at both home and school . |
| 13 | PLAYBOY Roderick Newall was arrested on suspicion of his parents ' murder after a ‘ Miss Marple ’ probe by his Auntie Nan . |
| 14 | ‘ Not divorced , ’ James went on , as if the precise terms of his parents ' separation were important . |
| 15 | On his release he had come straight-up to Moila , and by last weekend — it was possibly true enough — had not heard of his parents ' departure , but had thought he could go straight home . |
| 16 | As sprinter Mike MacFarlane said of his parents ' total lack of encouragement : ‘ It was 'cause they had n't got the time to think about it . ’ |
| 17 | Mickey Morris ' continued involvement in spite of his parents ' derision , Carlos Francis ' determination to defy his parents ' ridicule of football as a career , former British and European middleweight boxing champion Bunny Sterling 's refusal ‘ to let on to ’ his parents about his boxing : these are typical examples of black kids cutting themselves away from the strings of their parents and locating the vital , influential figures in their lives elsewhere . |
| 18 | This placement followed the breakup of his parents ' marriage which was acknowledged by his mother , but not his father , as having a serious effect upon Tom 's behaviour . |
| 19 | The plaintiff moneylenders offered a loan to the son on the security of his parents ' property . |
| 20 | The sound of his parents ' calls were muffled and then grew distant and all he could hear was the rough footfall of the man on the rocks and scree and the sound of his breathing … |
| 21 | By the time the towers of his parents ' manor house appeared , the rider leading the way had begun to cough . |
| 22 | They stored the entire contents of his parents ' Middlesbrough home in their warehouse , handing everything over on his marriage in 1966 . |
| 23 | From the age of five he spent hours every day riding moto cross bikes on disused land near his parents ' house . |
| 24 | So , as a kind of protest against his parents ' values , he had joined the police as a constable . |
| 25 | Fanny , his wife , whom he clandestinely marries against his parents ' wishes , being compelled to spend his wedding night ‘ in a back-kitchen chimney ’ at her father 's house . |
| 26 | One night , in a state of despair , he drank several cans of lager with friends from college — and on the way home , expressed years of frustration against his parents ' beliefs ( as well as his deep need for their love ) by throwing stones at the stained glass windows . |
| 27 | Richens and the girl , Sabrina Ngiau , put the body in a trunk and had it driven to Kent where it was buried in a field behind his parents ' house at Borough Green Road , Ightham . |
| 28 | What had Christ 's gospel of renunciation to do with his parents ' comfortable parsonage ? |
| 29 | ‘ I could n't care less , ’ was the reply of Philip , a 16-year-old sprinter from Birchfield , when asked whether he was displeased with his parents ' lack of zeal . |
| 30 | Climbing into his parents ' bed one morning , and establishing himself firmly between them , he declared that when he grew up he was going to marry his mummy . |