Example sentences of "from [pron] father 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher , who was a friend of my father 's , had the kiln brought here from my father 's workplace miles away , and said he 'd buy whatever I produced . |
| 2 | My mother would answer inaudibly , but it would be evident from my father 's all-too-audible answering tirade that she had been gently remonstrating . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't expect this treatment from my father 's oldest friend , ’ said Monks angrily , sitting down with a frown on his face . |
| 4 | Sir George agreed that the place was very different now from my father 's time . |
| 5 | I had a little money from my father 's will , administered by his British solicitors . |
| 6 | It is well I should marry again from my father 's house . |
| 7 | A postcard from my father 's childhood — |
| 8 | I played outside , running around in a pair of shorts and — I imagine-quite happy to have the whole pregnancy thing going on because it gave me more freedom to do as I liked about the house and garden , free from my father 's supervision . |
| 9 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 10 | A lovely fire was glowing in the grate , and the dark oil-paintings — cherished but valueless heirlooms from their father 's family — were gaily decorated . |
| 11 | Henry Crabb Robinson equally perceived a party spirit at work but , noting the younger Wilberforces ' drift away from their father 's associates , defined it differently . |
| 12 | It was , said Fry J. , at p. 196 , ‘ plain that the plaintiffs , at the time when they executed the deed , had not been entirely emancipated from their father 's control … |
| 13 | On Joseph Freame 's death in 1770 , the Barclay interest in the bank continued through his sister Priscilla 's two sons by David Barclay , David and John , who progressively withdrew from their father 's linens trade because of the American war , which they strongly opposed . |
| 14 | She was able to make herself a pottery workshop by joining two old telephone engineers ' caravans together , and now works from her father 's market garden near Livingston . |
| 15 | The old woman sat silently gathering the strands : the young girl who had known the pain of longing ; the rich , beautiful and ambitious young woman who , despite two suitable marriages , continued to be pursued by longing ; and the older woman , who found happiness with a poor drunken sot from her father 's stables at Tjele . |
| 16 | The voice of Bess of Hardwick can be heard ordering her household in Derby shire at the end of the sixteenth century , but less well-known women also make their appearance , including Mary-Ann , the dairymaid at Uppark in Sussex who captured the heart of Sir Harry Fetherstonhaugh , and Carolyn Workman , whose transfer from her father 's parsonage in Norfolk to the grandeur of The Vyne in Hampshire bears more than a passing resemblance to Fanny Price 's story in Jane Austen 's Mansfield Park . |
| 17 | I was intrigued to find that Shanti picked out all the cucumber from my meal , preferred my chicken to her rather mushy dish , pointed at the pickle and selected an onion from her father 's plate . |
| 18 | This can apply only to the property which has been received by the daughter from her father 's estate . |
| 19 | Cook had been moved by Sarah 's grief when she got back from her father 's funeral , and when she heard how Maggie had given birth on the very same day she had taken pity . |
| 20 | I am absolutely delighted about that , we all are , ’ she said from her father 's elegant Madrid penthouse . |
| 21 | In that she exercised the power of appointment and appointed her husband ( provided that he survived her by 30 days ) to receive the income from her father 's estate . |
| 22 | In 1979 she made a new will ; after making changes to some specific bequests , she again appointed her husband to receive the income from her father 's estate . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the 1989 will was drafted and signed without making any appointment of the income from her father 's estate . |
| 24 | A SIX-day-old baby escaped with just scratches after being plucked from her father 's arms by a tornado and carried off into the night . |
| 25 | The first , whereby she claimed reproduction rights on the works from her father 's collection and demanded the confiscation of the 40,000 catalogues published by the Pompidou Centre , was rejected by the court on 5 March . |
| 26 | Sometimes the woman gets vegetables from her father 's garden . |
| 27 | She became the elfin presence , the luck charm , the sweet pet of the forest : and when she was sixteen , she met William , four years her senior , a carpenter just out of his apprenticeship in Lorton — the next village on from Buttermere — who came every week to make the first selection of wood from her father 's stock . |
| 28 | Independent income from her father 's estate . |
| 29 | Betty was quite alone reading a book called Yams of an Old Shellback that Lydia had brought from her father 's house . |
| 30 | Jehana recovered her girdle from her father 's hand and reclasped it without comment . |