Example sentences of "his [adj -er] son " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually a letter arrived from London in response to Moran 's exasperated inquiries about his elder son . |
| 2 | Cullam shook one of his daughters , cuffed his elder son on the head , and then they all plunged into the showroom . |
| 3 | By the simple expedient of giving Charles control of the military elements of his kingdom , Pepin may have ensured that his elder son would retain greater control . |
| 4 | Two of the pioneers of X-ray diffraction were William Bragg and his elder son , Lawrence . |
| 5 | His elder son Ian is a consultant in Aberdeen . |
| 6 | Well , two days later Mr McNab and his elder son called at my home . |
| 7 | James Edward , 57 that June , had lost his taste for active campaigning , but on 23 December 1743 , a week before his elder son 's twenty-third birthday , James issued a Declaration of Regency , uncompromisingly dated ‘ In the forty-third year of Our Reign ’ , passing on the claimant 's torch to his son . |
| 8 | When , on 1 January 1766 , the Old Pretender died in Rome , aged 77 , his elder son assumed the title of Charles III and six years later he at last married , but his wife bore no children . |
| 9 | Then his example lured his elder son Bertrand to Tripoli in 1112 , and his younger son Alphonse Jourdain there in 1147 . |
| 10 | He was fortunate in having few relatives who could make any serious encroachment on his endowments : he had no brothers ; his uncle Jasper died in 1495 ; and his elder son Arthur died in 1502 , leaving him with only one surviving son for whom provision had to be made . |
| 11 | The revised clause is not exactly a paraphrase of the original one , since it implies something more : the old man was not just insensitive to his elder son 's feelings , but was so insensitive as to be possibly unaware of them . |
| 12 | Nathaniel Sherman chuckled and leaned confidentially towards his elder son 's chair as the Frenchman departed . |
| 13 | The Senator took his elder son by the elbow and , still talking , motioned him to stroll with him along the deck . |
| 14 | " Chuck here is a deadeye , " replied the senator , ruffling the hair of his elder son . |
| 15 | The Senator glanced up inquiringly at his elder son . |
| 16 | " Perhaps you 've figured that one out , Chuck ? " said the senator , turning to his elder son with a self-satisfied smile . |
| 17 | His elder son grinned easily back at him . |
| 18 | His elder son died in 1874 and he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second son , George William ( born 1844 ) . |
| 19 | By taking a peerage he ruined the political career of his elder son , who had become Unionist MP for Plymouth in 1910 and was elevated to the Lords in succession to his father in 1919 , but also created the opportunity for his daughter-in-law , Nancy ( later Viscountess Astor , q.v. ) to win her husband 's seat at a by-election , and thus become the first woman to sit in the House of Commons . |
| 20 | His elder son was created a baronet at the Restoration in 1660 , and the younger entered Parliament for Bletchingley as an exclusionist . |
| 21 | Sir Joshua Van Neck died 6 March 1777 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his elder son Gerard . |
| 22 | He died at his elder son 's house in Wimbledon 17 March 1956 . |
| 23 | His wife Rebecca , daughter of Thomas Thorold , had evidently predeceased him ; the Pitsea estate was entailed on his elder son Samuel , who was made a baronet in 1671 . |
| 24 | By his second wife he had a daughter and two sons ; his elder son was killed aged nineteen in the Guards Armoured division on the Dutch-German border in 1944 . |
| 25 | His elder son had been killed in Mesopotamia in the Great War and with his younger son he had little in common . |
| 26 | He then writes that in the early part of 821/early 1418 , Molla Fenari appointed his younger son , Sinan al-Din Yusuf Bali Celebi ( Yusuf Bali ) , as naib for the kadilik of Bursa and with his elder son , Muhyi " l-Din Muhammad Shah Celebi ( Mehmed Sah Fenari ) , went directly to Egypt where he spent Ramadan at the Zayniyya medrese and awaited the arrival of Seyh Zeyneddin , with whom he subsequently made the pilgrimage in 822 , departing from , and returning to , Jerusalem . |
| 27 | One 's first thought is that this apparent contradiction arises from the confusion of Molla Fenari with his elder son , Mehmed Sah , whose death is assigned in several of the extant chronological lists to the years 840/1436–7 or 839/1435–6 . |
| 28 | A third revolt by Duzme Mustafa in 829/1425–6 led to the replacement of Ibrahim Pasa as Grand Vezir by Molla Fenari 's enemy , Haci Ivaz Pasa , as a result of which Molla Fenari and his elder son , Mehmed Sah , were forced to retire from public life . |
| 29 | Perhaps this was something he had in common with his elder son . |
| 30 | Sarah 's old jealousy had come to the fore — she wanted Isaac to inherit all of Abraham 's wealth and his elder son , Ishmael , to have none . |