Example sentences of "[vb past] to my father " in BNC.
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| 1 | They proposed to my father that he make a list of all our properties in Palestine so that they could buy them . |
| 2 | Quite the contrary , ’ I told him , then put the phone just a little away from my mouth and shouted to my father : ‘ It 's only Jamie again , Dad ! ’ |
| 3 | I came to my father 's cousins in England and went to live in Wolverhampton . |
| 4 | The same thing happened to my father . |
| 5 | ROBBIE What happened to my father ? |
| 6 | I turned to my father . |
| 7 | At that time the house belonged to my father 's youngest sister . |
| 8 | ‘ It is money which belonged to my father . |
| 9 | It seemed , in fact , that Cecil 's house belonged to my father , who made a cave for himself out of its damp and its wood , the sweet musk of its corners . |
| 10 | And I see no point in reverting to my maiden name since that belonged to my father . |
| 11 | And now I 've given way to my emotions when I swore to my father I never would . |
| 12 | Although I called to my father , he took no notice , appearing totally absorbed in his conversation with the white-faced man . |
| 13 | I went to my father and releasing his hands from their grip on the edge of the trolley , eased him down on to the carpet . |
| 14 | Mena 's everyday face is just stubborn , you could call it proud — she 's a countrywoman from a good province as they say — but Anna took to it , she did take to people — her infatuations Constanza says — she took to my father when he was a very young man and he was n't so good-looking either . |
| 15 | ‘ I spoke to my father last night , and he confirmed what I suspected . |
| 16 | I was going shopping twenty years later with my parents and my own little girl Sara in her push-chair , when my mother said to my father , ‘ Are you going to nip into the Post Office ? ’ |
| 17 | Oh yes , ’ she said to my father , ‘ why do n't you go to the house and bring us something to drink ? ’ |
| 18 | I said to my father . |
| 19 | Some time after he retired ( he worked until he was seventy-five or seventy-six : he shod his own pony a month before he died ) he said to my father : |
| 20 | Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job . |
| 21 | Yes , there was one pilot down there , his name was George and er , my father was in one Sunday and he said to my father , he said he say you only think you know the river . |
| 22 | Cos he 'd report there was a there were n't enough water inside the place , so he said to my father , say to him , he 'd say er do n't you tell me all thick he 'd say , I dredge the bloody river , he say . |
| 23 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 24 | I have read some of the letters he wrote to my father . |
| 25 | One day I suggested to my father that he buy me a pair of binoculars . |