Example sentences of "father [unc] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled that Ian Duthie , a graduate of Edinburgh University , -was one of his tutors in ‘ English 101 ’ ( a compulsory subject ) , who provided interesting connections with his father 's accent and the general Scottishness of Westmount . |
| 2 | Jacob 's taking advantage of his father 's blindness and frailty , and his deceiving him at one of the most solemn moments of his life , are reminiscent of the shame and humiliation brought to Noah by his son Ham . |
| 3 | The Prince of the Asturias was in contact with this aristocratic opposition , publishing caricatures distributed in taverns in order to discredit his father 's court and the favourite around which it centred . |
| 4 | Jackie Nicklaus carries the burden of his father 's name and knows it does not hit golf balls for him . |
| 5 | Jackie Nicklaus carries the burden of his father 's name and knows it does not hit golf balls for him . |
| 6 | The stark , blank space in the column listing ‘ father 's name and occupation ’ on his birth certificate was to haunt him all his life . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | His father 's name and occupation are unknown . |
| 9 | The information recorded is date , precise place of marriage and form of ceremony and , for both parties , name , age , marital status , occupation , residence and father 's name and occupation . |
| 10 | How important could you from this work of making known this father 's name and kingdom , he said to his disciples my food is for me to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work why did Jesus consider God 's work to be as important as school ? |
| 11 | This was her father 's invention and he was very proud of it . |
| 12 | Fifteen years earlier Philip 's troops had attacked his father 's village and razed it to the ground , wiping out in one night Eudo 's brothers and sisters , as well as his young wife and child . |
| 13 | Determination surged afresh through Emily 's consciousness , she would rebuild her father 's reputation and his business , she would show the world that Emily Grenfell was no weak-kneed lady of leisure , but as strong as any man when it came to business . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She thought about her fiancé Jonathan , Jonathan Whalley , who worked intermittently in his father 's firm and spent the rest of the time playing hard . |
| 16 | In December 1330 Edward wrote to David asking him to give effect to his father 's promise and restore Wake and Beaumont to their Scottish lands ; but the Scots prevaricated , and in the autumn of 1331 Edward 's policy towards Scotland hardened , influenced no doubt by the fact that the final payment of Bruce 's indemnity had been received at midsummer . |
| 17 | There was certainly a note of concern in my father 's voice but it was overlaid with annoyance , as if I 'd let him down by finding a dead body . |
| 18 | Paul detected a faint note of weariness in his father 's voice and for a fleeting instant his mask of grim detachment had seemed to soften . |
| 19 | The earlier court had convicted him on Sept. 16 , 1990 , of aggravated murder , after finding that he had ordered troops to fire on demonstrators during the December 1989 riots which led to his father 's overthrow and death [ see p. 37725 ] . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |
| 21 | Joyce has now learned to honour her father 's memory and to see his worth . |
| 22 | He knew the business depended completely on his father 's skill and instinct . |
| 23 | Leonard has been doubly cheated : of his father 's presence and his rightful position . |
| 24 | The poor little rich girl who got into the FBI through her father 's influence and who would now be married to some rich Miami socialite had it not been for the timely intervention of Colonel Philpott , who was pressed into giving her a job with UNACO . |
| 25 | The contrast between the political and social reality of his father 's existence and the political and social reality of his own existence was dramatically brought into focus from the moment that he entered the Ecole Normale Superieure . |
| 26 | At last I knew the truth about my father 's betrayal and death . |
| 27 | He then rebuilt and re-erected the beam engine at his father 's mill and invented the weft fork , later adopted universally , which enabled looms to be worked at high speed . |
| 28 | Then , we remind ourselves of the supreme example of Christ , who placed his trust in his father 's love and ascended the hill of Calvary for our redemption . |
| 29 | Certainly the Office states that he became a hermit " without his father 's knowledge and against his will … because he loved God more than his father in the flesh " . |
| 30 | Then they made a bonfire of his father 's music and his collection of imported Deutsche Gramophon records . |