Example sentences of "be father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite that , while I 'm looking forward to this Father 's Day , most days are father 's day with Thomas . |
| 2 | They had been father and daughter , and sworn enemies , for a long time now ; they understood each other too well for comfort . |
| 3 | The wish had to be father to the belief , the belief to the conviction . |
| 4 | Now Daniel was difficult , telling her not to come to the hospital , where he was to be Father Christmas in the children 's ward . |
| 5 | ‘ The truth about chaps who want to be father figures , ’ remarked Lili , ‘ is that they actually want a mummy figure themselves . |
| 6 | Ah it must be Father 's Day then . |
| 7 | Rosenblum that day in the queue at Camisi 's : What did the good Lord create us for if not to be fathers ? |
| 8 | Examples are Father Thomas in Ashton 's La Fille Mal Gardée and Bottom in The Dream . |
| 9 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 10 | The appellants were father and daughter . |
| 11 | ‘ They were Father 's , and they 're all I have of his . |
| 12 | Oh just depends er sometimes he 'd they they brought them little you see so they were father would separate the the big ones from the little ones and |
| 13 | Whether they were father and son |
| 14 | Of course , some young fathers are fascinated by their babies and enjoy cohabiting co-operatively , finding more " meaning in being fathers than their own fathers did . |
| 15 | MEN love being fathers . |
| 16 | These were children tending the men and old men to whom they were fathers . |
| 17 | They end up by behaving not ‘ as if ’ they were fathers but as fathers , for instance . |
| 18 | At Sutton Bridge there were fathers and relatives waiting on the platform to greet us … |
| 19 | To put it simply , the family metaphor is : there are fathers and sons and one day the sons will inherit . |
| 20 | Forty-three per cent are fathers ( not necessarily living with their children ) , and 52% currently live in households which do not include children . |
| 21 | Even if you are fathers , you are also mothers … |
| 22 | The majority of absent parents er presently are fathers , so I 'm going to ask you given the current er , emphasis on er in , well in in in the media perhaps , rather tha , more than in real life on women going it alone , whether by necessity or indeed by choice . |
| 23 | Are fathers , obviously they 're necessary at the well of course , they 're not necessary at the point of conception any more but |
| 24 | All the men he knows are fathers or grandfathers and it is in that capacity that he knows them . |
| 25 | And the victory is even sweeter as his opponent , Don McGloghlin Snr , is father of the judge responsible for the bulk of the $30 million fines levied against the union . |
| 26 | My uncle in the evening had read aloud something where the line was quoted The child is father to the man and these words insinuated themselves not into the stony ground and thistles of my mind but into the dark rich soil that brings forth a hundred fold . |
| 27 | ‘ The child is father to the man ’ said one of the tenders of cradles in a pause in his song . |
| 28 | The words ‘ The child is father to the man ’ , had haunted me all the morning . |
| 29 | They say the child is father to the man ; yet looking back , across those immensities , those aeons , separating myself now from myself then , I can see almost nothing that I owe to him , almost nothing we have in common . |
| 30 | The Child Is Father of the Man |