Example sentences of "by her father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything that has happened to her over the past year has been genuine , from breaking her thumb to the operation , not to mention all the hassle she has had from standing by her father . |
| 2 | She is little more than her blue eyes and green shawl , the blue and the green undismayed by the yellows and reds of the book , as the girl is by her father . |
| 3 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 4 | He questioned the evidence given by Professor Austin Gresham , a Home Office pathologist and Professor of Morbid Anatomy at Cambridge University , who conducted a second post-mortem examination on Miss Ward 's remains after they had been flown to Britain by her father , John Ward . |
| 5 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 6 | She ran the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , founded by her father in 1912 , of which the Prince is patron . |
| 7 | Gwendolen is a Jamaican girl who is sexually abused first by an ‘ uncle ’ in Jamaica and then , when she joins her parents in London , by her father . |
| 8 | She will be accompanied by her father , who will continue as coach , with her mother looking after her studies . |
| 9 | After the first three days she takes a purificatory bath , and then is given a complete mini-bridal trousseau by her father or , in his absence , her brother . |
| 10 | Mrs Boesky , who was left a fortune by her father Ben Silverstein , who owned a string of properties including Hollywood 's Beverly Hills Hotel , has also been seeking the repossession of her husband 's property in Honolulu . |
| 11 | Following her husband 's death , she is said to have been given Weston Hall as a Valentine present by her father [ Sitwell , 5 ] . |
| 12 | Mehetabel Wright was instructed by her father Samuel Wesley and is said to have understood Greek by the age of eight . |
| 13 | In her poem ‘ The Cruel Parent ’ , she describes the suffering of a young woman who is starved by her father . |
| 14 | There are two very brief references in her poetry to servants who though employed by her father were also under her control . |
| 15 | She was also interested in literature , subjected at home to a diet of Plotinus , the third-century Greek philosopher , and especially Pascal , read to her by her father whilst she and her mother peeled potatoes . |
| 16 | In this novel , the genteel young heroine from the south of England , Margaret , is compelled by her father 's reduced circumstances to take up residence in a city called Milton , closely based on Manchester , and comes into social contact with a local mill-owner called Thornton . |
| 17 | Jo caught her mother 's eye and saw that she , too , was amused by her father 's instant expertise in their business . |
| 18 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 19 | Of course , they liked large buyers , but the manager there must have been impressed by her father years ago , probably because although his orders were n't all that large they were regular . |
| 20 | And when Jessie saw this man that she loved slide down the wall , then drop onto his side , she screamed ; but her screaming was soon checked by her father who , staggering towards her , put his hand over her mouth then twisted one of her arms behind her and thrust her towards the staircase door . |
| 21 | He knew Una O'Malley would never marry him unless she was forced to do so by her father . |
| 22 | It was not difficult for Anne since she had been encouraged by her father to practise her clog dancing on the kitchen hearth . |
| 23 | There are some situations where the relationship between parent and daughter would make intimate care impossible to give , for example where a daughter had been abused by her father as a child . |
| 24 | The bride , who was given away by her father , wore an Elizabethan-style dress , in cream silk , with a train with tiny pearls edging the dress and decorating the sleeves . |
| 25 | Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson and spent a deprived childhood during the Depression in a home , deserted by her father shortly before she was born . |
| 26 | Sitting alone at her kitchen table , Kelly read the last words ever written by her father . |
| 27 | She came in fourth this time , riding a horse bred by her father , who is doing his bit for tradition by breeding both the horses and the riders ! |
| 28 | Anne and her husband Alan , who was wearing a costume made by her grandmother which had also been worn by her father , told me how the village was changing . |
| 29 | Bellowed on by her father , Tabitha scored three goals and East Cotchester won the Handley Cross . |
| 30 | The wedding is being conducted in the garden of her family home by her father , the Very Rev David Cairns . |