Example sentences of "him by his father " in BNC.
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| 1 | This underlines perhaps the damage done to him by his father 's death , which appears to have robbed him of the memory of many of the normal sensations . |
| 2 | They swam rivers to avoid heavily guarded bridges and doubtless George used the fieldcraft taught to him by his father Sam to live off the land . |
| 3 | One of his sons , Noel , a retired university lecturer , decided to sort out and study all the documents , including the stories which had been confided to him by his father , to whom he was very close . |
| 4 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 5 | He still had the jewelled dagger hidden in a barrel on board his ketch , and he had put the sack with the money belt in an old sea chest left to him by his father . |
| 6 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 7 | Throughout his reign he trod , where day-to-day rule was concerned , in paths already marked out for him by his father , to whom the Enlightenment had meant nothing . |
| 8 | The villages , hamlets and the red-tile-roofed manors boasted their peace and prosperity for Henry was still living on the treasure bequeathed to him by his father . |
| 9 | Rory , who had been told to trust him by his father , never pressed him . |
| 10 | I can hardly forget the story about Devil 's Bridge at Acklam ( Echo March 26 ) which was told to me by my father and handed down to him by his father . |