Example sentences of "that [pron] father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only that my father 's dead , my stepmother 's ill , and I 'm worried sick about my grandfather ! |
| 2 | ‘ The lawyers wrote that my father 's new family would contest . |
| 3 | Her movements then are equally purposeful but they are constricted and withdrawn , so that her father 's contemptuous rejection of her pleas and his throwing her to the floor seem the proper outcome of what in his eyes is sheer disobedience . |
| 4 | The will also showed that her father 's lifetime savings , which fortunately were still safely in the bank , had also been left to her . |
| 5 | It could n't be true that her father 's leather business was failing , could it , and yet had n't he urged caution on several occasions lately ? |
| 6 | Had Miss Fergusson realized , or at least decided , that her father 's soul was lost , cast out , condemned ? |
| 7 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 8 | She was an only child , and well aware that her father 's dearest wish was to have grandsons . |
| 9 | He must n't ever know that her father 's faith in her capabilities was less than rock-solid , because he would doubtless use that as one more negotiating ploy in his campaign to buy the club . |
| 10 | It was also a shock to discover that their father 's investments only yielded an income of some £190 per annum net , considerably less than Warnie ( desperate to leave the Army and live on his pension ) had been hoping . |
| 11 | Wealth was not to be flaunted , although as the children grew older they became aware that their father 's circumstances were not the same as those of brother officers who lived only on their Navy pay . |
| 12 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 13 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 14 | Marnham records the unusual theory put forward by Simenon 's son John that his father 's sexual appetite ‘ may have been a consequence of the family 's acute sense of smell ’ — the latter being essential apparently , in order to feel sexual desire . |
| 15 | However , it does seem likely that his father 's views influenced him even so early . |
| 16 | It was plain for all to see that his father 's ultimatum had come as a shock to Jonna . |
| 17 | Jack knew that his father 's head was buried as deeply in the world of rugby as the world of medicine . |
| 18 | The news of the fall of Le Mans had convinced him that his father 's ship was sinking . |
| 19 | What the girls had to understand , he whispered , was that his father 's father had used the Lodge for very wicked purposes , things so wicked that he had gone quite mad and died in a madhouse . |
| 20 | To-night he must make the shortest time of it he could to Strata Marcella , reassure himself that his father 's grave had not been desecrated , and warn the prior of Isambard 's malignant interest in it . |
| 21 | It 's just that your father 's letter … it seems almost to suggest — ’ At which point the spill I was holding burnt my fingers . |