Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [prep] his father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Clarke 's son , David literally following in his father 's footsteps . |
| 2 | DUNCAN Bond , the 13-year-old son of Springfields site visits officer , Eric , is still competing with his father for possession of a coloured sticker representing the flight of the Atlantis space shuttle . |
| 3 | Mynne 's son and heir , also George , who died three or four years later , left cash legacies largely in the form of sums still owing by his father 's debtors . |
| 4 | He imagined bone-wrenching exercises and an accelerated real-food diet , such as had been distinctly lacking since his father 's shaming . |
| 5 | His chin is almost resting on his father 's shoulder . |
| 6 | He also mobilised the resources of Christian ritual ( again following in his father 's footsteps but going far beyond him ) in the royal and imperial consecrations staged not only for himself and his son but for Ermentrude and Richildis ; in the development of royal funerary cult at St-Denis and in the lavish endowment of liturgical commemorations of himself , his family and friends , at a number of churches ; and in the use of spiritual kinship , especially the godparental bond , in political dealings with neighbouring princes as a paradigm of beneficent authority . |