Example sentences of "father 's [noun] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 2 | The brother-in-law , the girl 's uncle , did not contest the father 's authority but he had had the girl 's company long enough for him to feel he could n't bear his house without her . |
| 3 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 4 | She remembered her father 's words after he 'd blamed Ace for his son 's death ; words she 'd never repeated to anybody . |
| 5 | They were her father 's words and she had never forgotten them . |
| 6 | The assumption is that men live in their father 's family until they have families of their own . |
| 7 | The smell of leather permeated the air and at once Emily was back in her father 's storehouse where he had kept mountains of skins ready to be cut and fashioned into boots and shoes . |