Example sentences of "father [was/were] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 2 | My father was a professional soldier and I was conscious of his excellence and knew I would never achieve that excellence . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , my father was a professional pick-pocket , was n't ‘ e ? |
| 4 | Her father was a retired Suez Canal pilot . |
| 5 | I was never thin like that and your father was a great big man , his legs were like the trunk of a tree . ’ |
| 6 | The only Fontanellato events recorded in the local paper were the bicycle race , the 25-kilometre race , and the bowling competition , of which my father was a great supporter . |
| 7 | ‘ My father was a great reader , ’ I explained , as I have a million times . |
| 8 | My father was a great friend of her father . |
| 9 | Oh father was a great rabbit catcher , yes . |
| 10 | My father was a gentle person , wanting peace at any price . |
| 11 | Brownlow , a Jersey tax exile whose father was a close friend of the Duke of Windsor , originally offered the Abdication papers to the Royal Archives . |
| 12 | Even though my father was a regular and popular customer , discretion was often the best part of valour ( so it is said ) . |
| 13 | You could n't cut them that day cos they were hot , you see , the day you killed them the , cos father was a rare man he , when we got , we got two fridges , we used to kill a week in hand , you see , one lot was in one fridge , that was in there a week before we touched it yeah . |
| 14 | Her father was a Presbyterian and when she confronted him with her decision , doing it as pugnaciously as usual in spite of her nerves , they had a furious and ridiculous quarrel : a man of fifty for some reason threatened by the vast religious longings of a fifteen-year-old . |
| 15 | His father was a Seventh Day Adventist and used to go round the streets carrying a placard with ‘ Prepare to meet thy God ’ on one side and ‘ Sin is Death ’ on the other . ’ |
| 16 | The father was a wild-haired rough-looking young man , very cheerful , and with such a strong local accent that at first I thought he was speaking Gaelic . |
| 17 | Sir William said yesterday : ‘ My father was a good amateur ornithologist and my mother was a little bit of a botanist . |
| 18 | Her father was a good man , and always paid his way , but he was an upholsterer . |
| 19 | ‘ Your father was a good man , ’ Maggie said . |
| 20 | Our father was a good designer , but he had no business sense . ’ |
| 21 | Yeah I think your father was a good looking man |
| 22 | Now his father was a mere Tabulator to the Ducas clan , clients of Lord Spinoza — charged with inspecting the activities of even lesser sub-contractors . |
| 23 | But his background is more mundane than the rags-to-riches story , recounted in numerous tabloid hagiographies , suggests : his circus-artist father was a small businessman by the time Major was born and both his parents were Conservative voters . |
| 24 | His father was a small Nottinghamshire landlord who was glad for one of his sons to be quartered on the Church . |
| 25 | Iris Murdoch 's father was a civil servant , Amis 's an export clerk , Larkin 's a provincial city treasurer , and John Wain 's a dentist and an alderman . |
| 26 | In these circumstances it was inevitable that for Richard and his brothers and sisters their father was a distant figure , always in a hurry . |
| 27 | The father was a tall , straight-backed man , obviously proud of his suffering son . |
| 28 | His father was a powerful and dominant figure . |
| 29 | The Newmarket man says : ‘ His father was a late developer and Bonny Scot has pro-gressed the same way . ’ |
| 30 | Her father was a rich and respected solicitor — not quite the right breeding , socially speaking , in County Westcommon , but Lalage 's charm and silly looks guaranteed her welcome in many houses to which her mother had never been invited : she and Nicandra had been " best friends " at their English school . |