Example sentences of "with my father 's " in BNC.

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1 I am six years old and eat pickled herring with my father 's mother Miriam Leah , who has changed her name to Mary .
2 I fed it kindly with my Father 's Hay ,
3 Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth .
4 Such overcrowded conditions , together with my father 's low salary as a teacher , were probably as important factors as my own abilities in my being considered a suitable case for rescue .
5 I live just off Wassail Square , there 's a sign over the workshop with my father 's name and trade on it , Dewi Morgan , boot and shoemaker , you ca n't miss it . ’
6 ‘ I am here to plead my case with my father 's creditors and to sell the family jewels , I suppose it is selfish of me to be concerned with such trifles when you have such pressing concerns like where you shall live , in the London home or at Summer Lodge . ’
7 I would n't have changed places with my father 's new children who , although they were five and seven , still seemed to smell of damp nappies and regurgitated milk , but I used sometimes to wonder what I would have been like if he had devoted similar time to me and not left me entirely to the women .
8 So we 're just going to have a plain headstone , with my father 's names and dates .
9 But I , my mother used to send me and er with my father 's suit and er she used to say er , now you 're going t to pawnshop , take your dad 's suit .
10 The night was filled with my father 's delirium .
11 His ghost was seen as a negative force which might have something to do with my father 's illness .
12 I could have been married many times , as everyone knows , but I was always so involved with my father 's business and then my own , life was always so full , that I let the opportunities slip by .
13 ‘ In view of your imminent involvement with my father 's company . ’
14 ‘ What do you want with my father 's burial-place ? ’ he said thickly through the gall that scalded his mouth .
15 I knew Granpa wanted me to stay on at school and improve my readin' and writin' , but on the last Friday of term in December 1913 I walked out of the gates of Jubilee Street Elementary , with my father 's blessing .
16 And when it came to those Trumpers I could only agree with my father 's judgment .
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