Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] [pos pn] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millie would have been fiddling awkwardly with the thick brush of ginger hair coarser than her father 's , and even redder — that sprang away all round her face , while her cello case , which I had carried back for her , was no doubt propped up against one of the crumbling and gateless brick pillars in front of their house , like a portly little old man too out of breath to speak . |
| 2 | Two whole sizes bigger than his father Northern Dancer , Nijinsky has matched him at stud . |
| 3 | Their mother , Maud , was eighteen years younger than their father , and although , as a boy , Bernard constantly sought his Mother 's love and affection , he did not succeed and possibly because of that , he failed to shine academically — but he was very keen on all forms of sport . |
| 4 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 5 | Was she younger than your father . |
| 6 | Scrope was much more the courtier than his father had been : a participant in court masques and festivities , and notorious as a gamester , burdened with large gambling debts . |
| 7 | Whatever happened , I thought , Dorothy was not going to get better while her father was with them . |
| 8 | Childhood memories are always best , of course , and everything was so much better when my father was alive . |
| 9 | He was an old man , older than her father , with a shock of white hair and long drooping moustaches which sat incongruously with his very correct pin-striped suit . |
| 10 | The agent was older than her father , but Hyacinth had been well brought up , and at least it was an escape from the national chairman ; prettily she agreed to dance with him . |
| 11 | ‘ God 's life , you arrogant imp , ’ cried Isambard between laughter and exasperation , ‘ do you presume to be prouder than your father ? |
| 12 | He 's worse than your father ai n't he . |
| 13 | Then her vision cleared further , and she saw that the man looking down on her was much thinner than her father had been , with a more skull-like face and thinner-hair . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope he will grow to be finer than his father , may God bless him . ’ |
| 15 | Finer than his father ? |