Example sentences of "but [subord] [pos pn] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also found great pleasure in reading , but although my father had brought to Fontanellato a large number of Slovene books , she had soon to resort to reading in Italian , which she inevitably found more difficult . |
| 2 | William could see the village where they lived and the smoke from the fires rising straight up into the air and the dark tower of the church rising above a cluster of stark trees , and because he was nervous he wanted to work his way in that direction , so it would not be so far to run , but because his father was beside him , smiling his reassuring smile , he did n't . |
| 3 | He had n't wanted to , but since his father was holding his hand it was all right . |
| 4 | Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . " |
| 5 | But whereas her father earned the respect of his people by staying in London throughout the Blitz , the Queen has few positive personal achievements to show for her four decades on the throne . |
| 6 | Rachel looked up quickly but before her father could explain further Jennifer intervened , manoeuvring her chair closer to the table . |
| 7 | He inherited a share of the family fortune , including his home in Connaught Place , from his uncle Henry Philip Hope in 1839 , but after his father died , his mother married William Viscount Beresford the Marshal of Portugal and Alexander became his heir . |
| 8 | His three cricketing sons became committed Christians while still at Eton but after his father 's death C. T. lost his fervour , until January 1884 , after he had believed that G. B. was dying . |
| 9 | I enjoyed the work and college life very much , but after my father 's death I stopped doing my work at the college . |
| 10 | Shrimpton 's mother fed them breakfast the next morning , but when her father showed up , he exploded and chased Bailey off the farm . |
| 11 | In June 1785 the family moved to Piercefield Park , near Chepstow , Monmouthshire ; but when her father 's business collapsed after the declaration of war by France ( 1 February 1793 ) , the family and their valuable library were broken up . |
| 12 | But when her father , the widely respected leader of the Welsh radicals in Parliament , died suddenly in 1892 she found to her horror that he had left a crippling burden of debt and that his principal business enterprise , the Dillwyn spelter works at Llansamlet , Swansea , was on the verge of bankruptcy . |
| 13 | Rachel stared at the ground and wished they 'd all go home , but when her father spoke again she looked up in surprise . |
| 14 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 15 | Still the boy did n't speak , but when his father advanced around the table and stood over him , he looked up into his face . |
| 16 | But when your father has been murdered the day you make only the fourth televised maximum break , when you win your first major title and receive a hero 's reception on returning to your native land , even the prospect of meeting Hendry is going to cause no more than a flutter of the eyelid . |
| 17 | Surveys yeah , but I mean from your and my point of view we do n't sit here talking all the time , but when your father gets in then there 's talk |
| 18 | When Dad fed them on the Sunday evening , he was still in the run as usual , but when my father opened up on Monday morning , the bird was missing . |
| 19 | At last I had five pounds — but when my father and I went to buy them we were told that they cost fifteen pounds , a considerable sum of money to an eight-year-old , and way beyond my means . |
| 20 | But when my father took over , when he came back to Galashiels , he started in bicycles and there was quite probably ten bicycle shops in Galashiels at that time and er he gave , well he , he attracted business with his efficient way of repairing bicycles and er it 's funny that after about a number of years , we were between the last , after the last war I should say , the Second World War , er we were about the only people for , for a period the only bicycle shop in Galashiels . |
| 21 | Everybody w looking but when my father and all was there , there was nine then so there was more so we had to go in th in that big room there and eat off the table there then . |
| 22 | ‘ I liked him ’ , one daughter summed up a grandfather who had been orphaned in the Irish potato famine : ‘ he was an old man , and I was only nine when he died , but as our father was at the [ First World ] War , I suppose he was the only man in the house . |