Example sentences of "that [pron] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband gave me the news that my father had died back in the village . |
| 2 | It was after we left them that my father opened his own bank account . |
| 3 | ‘ You think it impossible that my father would drive his wife and mistress together to London ? |
| 4 | I see that my father and mother are gone already beyond the brook . |
| 5 | It was while we were sitting there that my father must have died of a heart attack in Bath . |
| 6 | It simply said that my father had died : it asked me to come home . |
| 7 | Furthermore , it must be remembered that my father was a butler of an earlier generation who began his career at a time when such attributes were not considered proper , let alone desirable in a butler . |
| 8 | They demanded angrily that my father turn the car immediately so that the villages could be visited ‘ in the correct order ’ . |
| 9 | But a hundred things should have indicated to you that my father is a figure of unusual distinction from whom you may learn a wealth of things were you prepared to be more observant . ’ |
| 10 | It was in the vicinity of these steps that my father fell , scattering the load on his tray — teapot , cups , saucers , sandwiches , cakes — across the area of grass at the top of the steps . |
| 11 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 12 | By the time Dr Meredith arrived , he had revived considerably and the doctor soon left again making only vague statements to the effect that my father had perhaps been ‘ over-working ’ . |
| 13 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 14 | Rumour had it that my father and mother met in a Methodist Chapel where both were in the choir . |
| 15 | I remember being glad that my father had a job which did not need him to climb ladders . |
| 16 | Mr. Sutton was a nice old gentleman — looked distinguished with his white hair and small white beard , a stickler for accuracy and forever telling me that my father had been one of his pupils . |
| 17 | She had heard that my father was preparing now to go to Somerset to be with the other Hastings folk . |
| 18 | In any case , my father was obviously a bit of an embarrassment to his brother : Harold Swan pressed home the point that my father might have a fit during a performance . |
| 19 | ‘ Only that my father 's dead , my stepmother 's ill , and I 'm worried sick about my grandfather ! |
| 20 | I , the only one of his children who had not gone on to the stage , had inherited the famous Breakspear eyes , the Breakspear height , the Breakspear cheekbones , the brooding Breakspear presence that my father had used to break the hearts of unnumbered women . |
| 21 | At the next station , I told him I was leaving and , as he rose to follow me , I mentioned that my father was meeting me . |
| 22 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |
| 23 | What had happened , because his holidays coincided with mine , was that my father had become my mother as well as my father , in the sense that it was he and not she who was always at home . |
| 24 | Even more extreme was Olympic decathlete Daley Thompson , who straightforwardly stated that he wanted nothing to do with blacks : ‘ I 've never let the fact that my father was Nigerian [ his mother was Scottish ] interfere with me . |
| 25 | When they asked him where it was that my father had wanted to build the gallery , he said something like , ‘ Well , you know , it 's that place near the pond between the pond and the obelisk ’ , meaning the Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool . |
| 26 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 27 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 28 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 29 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 30 | So that my father could come down and live with me . |