Example sentences of "[pron] son 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 2 | Not that Masha was unable to enjoy herself — she had a fine sense of humour and loved to sing , which she could do well , serenading the songs of her homeland — lullabies and airs which still resonate in her son 's head to this day . |
| 3 | A mother is blaming her son 's addiction to computer games for triggering his epileptic fits . |
| 4 | As he stowed the edenwort and the kohlrabi at the back of the cupboard , he saw his mother 's strained , pale face as she boasted , unconvincingly , of her son 's prowess to a neighbour . |
| 5 | Indeed , as the price of Valois support Isabella may have offered to renounce her son 's claim to the French crown . |
| 6 | Sula was by birth a Manghutt princess , and she had lived under sentence of banishment until her son 's accession to the Dragon Throne for her part in her family 's attempt to install him as Kha-Khan while his grandfather Arjun yet ruled . |
| 7 | It 's believed the Duke had hoped his son 's marriage to Becky Few Brown would be the making of the Marquis , a former drug addict who 's twice been to prison . |
| 8 | The same election provides a further example of bribery , once again involving a Buchanan laird , Moses Buchanan of Glins , whose price for supporting Ardkinglas was the consent of government to his son 's succession to John McCure 's office of keeper of the register of sasines of Renfrew . |
| 9 | Moran looked from his son 's face to his wife 's but his own remained expressionless . |
| 10 | Negus Mikael , Lij Yasu 's father , being now a devout Christian , had condemned his son 's affiliation to Islam , but when he heard that Lij Yasu had been deposed family pride was outraged . |
| 11 | This report about your son 's adjustment to group life in camp has been compiled by the members of our staff who have been working with Leonard . |
| 12 | ‘ Your son 's relationship to the Exalted — ’ Grigoriev paused delicately , ‘ — is it close ? ’ |