Example sentences of "son had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Her three eldest sons had all died of disease , and the fourth had not yet been born . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One parent was told by a consultant , ‘ We all have to go sometime , ’ after her 16-year-old son had just died of leukaemia . |
| 8 | His son had just stood there , staring at them , until they left . |
| 9 | as if the time would make any difference to a woman whose only son had just been killed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was the Glasgow woman with serious marriage problems , whose son had just committed suicide in prison . |
| 12 | Coun. Mrs Toward said her son had also waited an hour for an ambulance after being injured in a car crash . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was evident that the ever-present shadow which fell across the lives of Mme Guérigny and her son had never been darker . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Her son had better stay within the ranks , she thinks . |
| 20 | Your son had better things to do had he ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | My formerly loving and truthful son had now become such a plausible liar . |
| 23 | ‘ My formerly loving and truthful son had now become such a plausible liar ’ |
| 24 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |
| 25 | In all the desperate , toiling years she had been in Canada , neither her husband nor her son had ever made themselves a meal , except on one or two occasions when illness had confined her to bed . |
| 26 | It was not going to be possible to keep from Olga the information that her son had suddenly become quite a well-to-do youngster , though he had warned Hank on no account to tell her how much he had made out of his book . |