Example sentences of "[pos pn] father [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one evening when I happened to be valeting him , Mr Charles told me he had come across my father some years earlier while a guest at Loughborough House — the home of Mr John Silvers , the industrialist , where my father served for fifteen years at the height of his career . |
| 2 | ‘ Harry , what does my father hope for from this marriage of his ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My father worked for them . |
| 4 | My father looks for another . |
| 5 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 6 | And , even though it 's none of your business , for your information , my father paid for it . ’ |
| 7 | In autumn my father watched for boys who climbed in to steal his apples but was stumped by their shamelessness even when caught red-handed . |
| 8 | We were glad of the good fish my father brought for us to celebrate with . |
| 9 | ‘ Then you must also realize that for me to do what the Brigadier suggests would be a betrayal of everything my father stood for and gave his life for . ’ |
| 10 | Stan Johnson , the chap my father works for , has a finger in all sorts of pies , including housing . |
| 11 | My father works for an oil company and last summer he was seconded to their Texas headquarters for five years . |
| 12 | I mean I can remember the nineteen twenty , I I were n't sure whether it was the twenty one or the twenty six strike , and my father was erm on strike , you see , but the ponies had to be thus cared for in the field an I do n't think he received any pay and I remember very well erm going to the , my father applying for relief , and er we had to go and face the erm Court of Referees . |
| 13 | We lived in a large farmhouse , that belonged to the farm my father worked for . |
| 14 | Now it sounds like my father paid for it , but that 's not true because David took care of all the stuff for the wedding . |
| 15 | Her father thought for a moment . |
| 16 | When her father reached for a cigarette , Miranda intercepted his hand as it searched for his lighter , and touched the flame to the tip to make contact with him . |
| 17 | Her father reached for the tea pot . |
| 18 | She was a babe when her father left for Jerusalem . |
| 19 | Of course he needs to know the obvious data like her starsign , blood-type , favourite foods and what her father does for a living . |
| 20 | Her father feared for her reason , and left the boat telling to his fellow fishermen he would remain at home that day . |
| 21 | Juliet cooked them both a meal for which she had no appetite , and watched her father leave for the hospital in his blue Cavalier . |
| 22 | But Sophie loved Felix very much , so she took some money and escaped from her father to search for Felix . |
| 23 | Another girl , placed in a children 's home at 13 after her mother had a nervous breakdown and her father left for another woman , described her shock at finding it was also a place of ‘ correction ’ for young offenders . |
| 24 | Eileen wrote first to her father asking for his blessing . |
| 25 | Her father stayed for five years , during which time he became doubly incontinent and increasingly senile . |
| 26 | To Lan 's astonishment her father signalled for her to approach the altar next ; as she was the youngest she had expected to go last , but her father was clearly singling Kim out for special treatment by allowing her to precede him . |
| 27 | So it could be said that Michael Palin 's whose career went against what his father wished for him — All the more unforgivable because , unlike his father , he has followed ‘ my natural inclination ’ — and succeeded . |
| 28 | Well why ca n't his father pay for a computer ? |
| 29 | There 's a bleak line in the book when , his parents divorcing , his father leaving for Europe , Rock quotes himself , aged 11 , saying ‘ I 'll be OK , Dad , I wo n't need Mom so long as I can have the limo . ’ |
| 30 | They stood huddled beside the small stove and his father waited for his tears to subside . |