Example sentences of "and [noun] [pron] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | and Melford my father 's er mother 's people were the . |
| 2 | In the one in which the client 's objective was rejected the clients were a brother and sister whose father had died . |
| 3 | As they drove out of town , along the quiet roads to the country , it became clear to Juliet that the brandy and soda her father had given him had n't been Nigel 's first drink of the evening . |
| 4 | I think in any marriage or in any family the father and the mother both play different parts , and in my own life I can remember things my mother did and things my father did and together it made for a happy home . |
| 5 | We always had a tree at home , and the family congregated — my two uncles and their wives and their one-son-apiece , and Addy my father 's unmarried aunt , darling strict Addy , who had helped to bring me up . |
| 6 | In these circumstances it was inevitable that for Richard and his brothers and sisters their father was a distant figure , always in a hurry . |
| 7 | Controls whose mother had died ( two ) or was unavailable because of ill health ( one ) and controls whose father could not be identified ( eight ) were also considered ineligible . |