Example sentences of "father and his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Borjon 's Traité de la musette establishes that a father and his two sons , whom I have shown to be Jean I and his sons , Martin and Jean fils aîń , worked together in instrument making . |
| 2 | Lucas 's mother refused to see him after he decided to move in with his father and his new wife at the beginning of 1992 . |
| 3 | They would come sometimes for my birthday , or at Christmas , and my mother , whose material circumstances were very much more comfortable than those of my father and his new family , would patronise them and condole with my stepmother on my father 's drinking habits and the undisciplined weeping of her little boy . |
| 4 | He felt estranged from his father and his new family , and for the next few years was back and forth between Cairo and Alexandria living with his uncles and attending different schools . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding the making of the care order on 15 May 1991 and the implications of that order , the local authority , in my view , continued to have in mind the possibility of placing the children within their natural family , and specifically with the father and his new partner . |
| 6 | So was his position as heir presumptive , a necessary acknowledgement in order to remove any doubt created by the fact that he was the son of a divorced father and his second wife . |
| 7 | Curwen 's estates lay on the west Cumberland coalfield , and he took a particular interest in the collieries inherited from his father and his second wife , as well as others which he purchased and leased in the area . |
| 8 | He intended to join the Indian Civil Service , but while he was at Oxford his father and his only brother died , and he inherited the family estate , which provided him with an income for the rest of his life . |
| 9 | Factors which emerged related to the dependent relationship between the father and his elderly mother , and to the long-standing unsatisfactory state of the couple 's marriage . |
| 10 | A FATHER and his nine-year-old son died in an avoidable tragedy while repairing a neighbour 's car . |
| 11 | Anyway , my father and his theatrical consortium have always been great fans of Trumpton . |
| 12 | Similarly , Richard , Olivier 's son by his third and last wife , Joan Plowright , has decided to talk about his unusual relationship with his father and his own involvement with the Men 's Movement , which uses dance , drumming and storytelling to try to compensate for absent fathers . |
| 13 | But even that last saving grace of their relationship had begun to collapse when she had had to spend so much of her time down in Devon , looking after her father and his chaotic affairs . |