Example sentences of "[pron] father have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 2 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 3 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 4 | As she grew up , her father had been of no account to her . |
| 5 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |
| 6 | People were cruel , like her father had been before the divorce , like Miss Shaw and Miss Rist were to Miss Malabedeely . |
| 7 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 8 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
| 9 | His father had been to the Wesleyan Collegiate Institution at Taunton until the age of sixteen , when he had left and gone into the business . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed softly , and wondered if her mother and his father had been among them . |
| 11 | Often the furniture looked lost after he had left a room and because of this Endill soon learnt to tell where his father had been in the house . |
| 12 | Denis had had to reveal it when applying to join — they 'd have found out anyway that his father had been in the RIC . |
| 13 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |
| 14 | Your father has been at Una to marry Drennan , cajoling her , pleading with her , aye , and threatening her ! |
| 15 | ‘ As a matter of fact your father 's been in touch with us . ’ |