Example sentences of "[pos pn] father [verb] he " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ So my father took him , and he got off the cart and off he went . |
2 | When the doctor would n't make the night call , saying it could wait till morning , my father said he would shoot him if my mother died . |
3 | I said that we would make the trip to Montparnasse one night and sing around the " Coupole " and the " Dome " for Reggie , my parents and their friends , but my father said he would pay us a lot of money to stay away . |
4 | My father said he 'd never known a season before when chairs and commodes were the best crops . ’ |
5 | ‘ You know , my father thinks he has somehow mastered the situation . |
6 | The jeweller did n't know what it was my father showed him . |
7 | ‘ No , ’ my father told him . |
8 | And when my father came he would n't be the father whom I missed . |
9 | ‘ My father bought him for me , ’ Artemis replied . |
10 | And he , my father reminded him last night and he said yeah he would have them by tomorrow morning . |
11 | My father loved him . |
12 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
13 | Oh it could n't be much longer than that , my father , my father retired he was a publican in the village |
14 | Indeed my father beat him . |
15 | If her father thought he was going to have her living at home , under his thumb , then he could think again . |
16 | He would let her father row him down the lake and dangle out a few lines to see if a tickle of fish would tickle his mood . |
17 | He treats her like this because he wanted to marry Nettie , Celie 's sister , but her father said he would give him a cow as a dowry if he married her instead . |
18 | She said that it was partly because of drink — that all the Stavangers drank , and that her father knew he was drinking too much , but that he never drank at sea . |
19 | He silenced her with more kisses as he tried to remind himself that this young girl was not only innocent but trusted herself to his care ; that her father trusted him , and however uninhibited she might now appear to be , he must not abuse that faith . |
20 | Girl marries nasty man because her father owes him money . |
21 | David handed the statuette to his father telling him he 'd won the contest and his father told him he knew he would succeed in the end . |
22 | The violent scene ended with his father telling him to leave the house , ‘ so decidedly that I actually left the same day . ’ |
23 | Adam phoned home and asked his mother to stop his father bothering him when he was in the middle of exams . |
24 | A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died in hospital after being hit by a car while his father taught him the Green Cross Code . |
25 | His father ignored him and smiled graciously at Madeleine . |
26 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
27 | It was a foregone conclusion , I soon realised , that after univeristy he 'd start up his own firm with some money his father left him . |
28 | Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights . |
29 | Edward learned his lessons quickly , but he was never happy in the various schools to which his father sent him . |
30 | His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis . |