Example sentences of "that [pron] son " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of your memoir is a quotation from a letter by John Adams to his wife : ‘ I must study politics and war , that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy . |
| 2 | Now that my sons are becoming more independent , I have time for myself and confidence in middle age that I lacked as a youngster . |
| 3 | It was n't so much as how to achieve a new social order , but how can I ensure that my son or daughter gets a better job than I did . |
| 4 | It was n't so much as how to achieve a new social order , but how can I ensure that my son or daughter gets a better job than I did . |
| 5 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 6 | A trust can not be claimed on the basis of the words ‘ See that you look after the fields , and so it will come about that my son may give you your sons . ’ |
| 7 | But she was , of course , unable or unwilling to tell me much more than that my son was dead , and that there were certain wounds . |
| 8 | I have no reason to believe that my son was contemplating ending his life and he had to my knowledge no enemies . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Please ask those who sent you to do their utmost to see that my son gets this letter as quickly as is humanly possible . ’ |
| 10 | I took my parents when I , my son was two and a half , and I can honestly say that my son , I was n't able to devote as much time as I would have wanted to give . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I do not deny that my son was homosexual , nor that he and Wolfgang Klein were lovers . |
| 12 | The old Emperor said : ‘ Blessed be God that my son still remembers me . ’ |
| 13 | Now that my son Subhash is grown up , he also comes and mans the stall for a few hours . |
| 14 | I thought that my son was doing it , changing the totem because of the way he was reaching towards me . |
| 15 | Children are n't that stupid if you 're implying that my son would do that . |
| 16 | ca n't you go and say I volunteer that my son has homework |
| 17 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 18 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 19 | She has never abused her position while appearing determined that her sons will be brought up in the sensitive , caring manner denied to their father . |
| 20 | Now that her sons were off her hands , and Olivia , at twelve , the only one of the children whose education was not completed , Dinah felt able to dismiss the tutor and his wife , with a warmly written reference for long and faithful service . |
| 21 | Over the years she had forced these thoughts from her mind , telling herself that her sons were the product of their father . |
| 22 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 23 | It turned out that her son was a great friend of the paraquat-wielding monk I had seen at the monastery farm near Roscrea . |
| 24 | Bronwen explained that her son had been difficult from day one , crying most of the day and night , demanding constant attention . |
| 25 | She may fear Aids for her son ; she may fear violence from her husband ; she may fear that her son will have to move out of the family home and fear her own loneliness . |
| 26 | Part of her annoyance was brought about by the fact that she had never met nor heard of Mary Brown but part of it was fuelled by the fact that her son had broken with the faith . |
| 27 | On 11 April 1986 Minnie Keenan was listening to the radio in her east Belfast home when she heard the news that her son Brian had been taken hostage in Beirut . |
| 28 | We watched with admiration as Alice our skater , now recovering from her ordeal and the fact that her son was a girl , began to unpack the beautiful Swiss lace gowns she had brought with her . |
| 29 | Yet Kate 's near-demented insistence that her son is not dead has a logic and awareness that , unknown to the others , is holding the family together . |
| 30 | Kate throws herself into her delusion that her son will come back ; Joe heartily espouses being realistic and burying the dead . |