Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she could think of was home , her brothers and her father ; all she longed for was to be back among them , back among the mountains and bays and cliffs that she loved — back in Ballingolin , back in Corcaguiney , back in Ireland . |
| 2 | They say he fought twenty men , including her brothers and her father , to win her . ’ |
| 3 | Neither had " a head for figures " the venture failed within months and my father found a job as a tradesman again . |
| 4 | I pay all the bills and my father has never paid any rent . |
| 5 | He sat in the back garden with it , obscured from the windows of the lounge ( where his parents and our father sat ) by the washing blowing in the breeze ; he lit the ‘ thrower and sprayed our two hutches with flame , incinerating all our beauties . |
| 6 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 7 | still had no prospects of employment and I do n't think er , er my parents had any erm particular ideas and my father who worked for erm Roads and Bridges Department was speaking to the Chief Clerk at that time , that was , er , his name was in fact and erm he was a very sympathetic character and er he said he 'd have a word with erm with somebody in the County Council and erm see if they could find me employment as a typist and erm using the argument of course that the Education Department had up to that time at the R N C erm paid the balance of the fees for my course , erm I could just mention to you that the scholarship was worth forty pounds a year fee . |
| 8 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 9 | She is related to her sister 's children , so she has a genetic self interest in me doing things for my , for , for her er , female , er for her relatives and my father does n't . |
| 10 | The one whose mother owned jellied-eel stalls and whose father was a boxer ? |
| 11 | He still remembered , all these years ; his tears and his father 's scorn : ‘ Bubbling like that , and a lassie by Christ . ’ |
| 12 | I found my mother in tears and my father very angry . |
| 13 | His grandfather and great grandfather had both been long serving District Masters and his father had been an Ulster Volunteer . |
| 14 | Dolores and her father were already at the table , and her two brothers were just washing their hands in the kitchen with young Pablo the fisherman who was Lina 's intended . |
| 15 | My exam results and my father 's comments upon them left me shrivelled . |
| 16 | She surfaced from under the sheets and her father saw that her hair was wound on huge electrically heated rollers . |
| 17 | I suspect that it started when I would read my grandmother 's Sunday School prizes and my father 's Sunday School prizes as a small boy . |
| 18 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 19 | Four other children and their father were asleep upstairs . |
| 20 | Neither of her parents were church-goers and her father had so far lapsed from his native Catholicism as to despise and detest ‘ the whole primitive priestly caboodle ’ , as he called it . |
| 21 | The uncles and my father , jolly and unsuspecting after an evening 's celebrations , blundered in with their sacks of bounty ; the tins and cutlery crashed round their ears as they pushed the door open . |