Example sentences of "son had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Hincmar 's silence here was tactful , since Charles the Bald 's sons had not distinguished themselves in the traditional roles . |
| 2 | A spear , too spent to hurt , struck his own shield and found no room to fall to the ground , for by then men and shields were packed close around and behind him , and the three wedges had formed the svinfylkja , the pig 's snout , the secret of Odin that he hoped fur-traders ' sons had not been instructed about . |
| 3 | His two sons had already been educated at Pocklington when Yarm opened as a result of efforts by a handful of parents whose enterprise he describes as ‘ the boldest thing I have ever known . ’ |
| 4 | To tradition and instinct , de Castelnau could add personal reasons for wanting to hit hard at the enemy ; three of his sons had already laid down their lives for France . |
| 5 | Wordsworth was the guest in Bristol of a wealthy sugar merchant , John Pretor Pinney , whose sons had recently befriended the poet , and it may have been at the Pinney town house in Great George Street that the meeting with Coleridge took place . |
| 6 | Charles now placed himself on a par with Lothar and Louis the German ( whose teenage sons had recently begun to play an active political role themselves ) . |
| 7 | Her three eldest sons had all died of disease , and the fourth had not yet been born . |
| 8 | The ill-fated Mannheim-Paris trip of 1778 , which Mozart undertook with his mother , not with Leopold , marked the end of the close , trusting relationship that father and son had formerly enjoyed . |
| 9 | One parent was told by a consultant , ‘ We all have to go sometime , ’ after her 16-year-old son had just died of leukaemia . |
| 10 | His son had just stood there , staring at them , until they left . |
| 11 | as if the time would make any difference to a woman whose only son had just been killed . |
| 12 | Leith felt sick to her stomach when Mr Ardis , either not believing that his son had just pounced unencouraged on her , or perhaps covering up for his son 's weaknesses , told her that a month 's severance pay would be sent to her , and dismissed her on the spot . |
| 13 | There was the Glasgow woman with serious marriage problems , whose son had just committed suicide in prison . |
| 14 | Coun. Mrs Toward said her son had also waited an hour for an ambulance after being injured in a car crash . |
| 15 | Despite his flair and populism , he was a cautious man who took great comfort from the fact that his son had not become a footballer but was securely settled in the middle class as a solicitor . |
| 16 | She recognised that her son had not always been as attentive as expected towards his wife or the children and that he spent too much time with friends like Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 17 | And faced with the fact that their son had not only absconded , breaking his apprentice 's bond , but was earning his living by fraud — a bogus worker of miracles — his family would be forced to open their doors , obliged to beggar themselves in harbouring the Miracle Pageant right through the winter . |
| 18 | The father and son had not spoken about the assault yesterday but John Norrie was clearly shaken by his son 's facial injuries . |
| 19 | If her son had n't got a name , at least she was going to see that he had a proper lining to his stomach . |
| 20 | Old Mr. Lorrimer phoned to say that his son had n't slept in his bed , so she went tip to see if Lorrimer were here . |
| 21 | As Miss Easterbrook has pointed out , no-one could rely on his going early to bed last night and not realising until after the Lab opened this morning that his son had n't come home . |
| 22 | ‘ When the son returned to his father , he was not rebuked , for the father knew that the son had already learned what was necessary now to trust the father . |
| 23 | Following the death , on 29 June 1523 , of Thomas Spring of Lavenham , ‘ the rich clothier ’ , his commercial empire had been dismantled , and his immense fortune , £3,200 net , dispersed among his heirs , most of it to his widow and daughter ; his son had already chosen to live as a gentleman and was duly taxed on £20 from lands in 1524 , and the firm ceased trading . |
| 24 | Pat was sitting with his arm about Terry 's shoulders as though he wanted to reassure himself that his son had really returned , but even his low-voiced conversation with Terry was interrupted by Frank . |
| 25 | He closed his own eyes to give a silent prayer of relief that his own son had never wanted to ride a machine like this . |
| 26 | It was evident that the ever-present shadow which fell across the lives of Mme Guérigny and her son had never been darker . |
| 27 | He demanded that as his son had never stood trial or been convicted of the robbery , police had no right to seize the money from him . |
| 28 | Her son had better stay within the ranks , she thinks . |
| 29 | Your son had better things to do had he ? |
| 30 | Although our son had only one more year to spend at Liphook Junior School , we decided that it would be in his best interests to send him to another state school in Haslemere . |