Example sentences of "father [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your father asked me to — to keep an eye out for you . |
| 2 | Before I went , my father asked me : ‘ Are you going to marry Elizabeth , or do you love another woman ? |
| 3 | My father asked me why I said these awful things . |
| 4 | Your father asked me to try and talk you out of this engagement , to try and find out what you felt about this boy . |
| 5 | My father made me attend evening lectures for a time on sound , light , and heat — with no effect . ’ |
| 6 | Er every night they used to play cards and when I was eighteen my father made me learn cards . |
| 7 | My father made me a pair of wooden clappers and I used to rattle these and call out : |
| 8 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 9 | TWO YEARS after the dramatic and mysterious death of pretty blonde tourist Julie Ward in a Kenyan game reserve , her father visited me . |
| 10 | I 'll beat you , just as my father beat me . |
| 11 | The last time I cut my hair my father beat me up very badly , and threw his weightlifting equipment at me . |
| 12 | The father drew me aside and we exchanged names , Nicholas and Gonzalo . |
| 13 | In 1238 Alexander III 's father promised me the crown but then he married again and begat Alexander , the third of that name , and the up was dashed from my lips . |
| 14 | I did n't want your father to know I was back , for fear he 'd want to hold me . ’ |
| 15 | Jesus said I love you just as the Father loves me , remain in my love . |
| 16 | Keep one end dry and the other end wet , my father advised me , and that was about the measure of it . |
| 17 | ‘ My father says I 'm mad practically every time I see him . |
| 18 | Your father says I should carve it again . |
| 19 | ‘ My father told me that a woman 's body odour was the sexiest smell in the world . ’ |
| 20 | But most was not at such a high level , was concentrated within the last six or seven generations which ( as Peters notably argues ) was the limit of what a contemporary grandfather could tell as ‘ what my grandfather told me ’ , or ‘ what my father told me about his grandfather ’ ( Peters , 1970 ) . |
| 21 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 22 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 23 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 24 | My father told me that when Darwin 's Beagle appeared in their island channels , the Tierra del Fuegans did not even notice it because their imaginations could not grasp so vast a ship . |
| 25 | ‘ But my father told me that he had sold his interest in the business ! |
| 26 | I have never forgotten that near the end of his life my Father told me that in his loneliness Basil was the one of his five children who had given him most sympathy and understanding . |
| 27 | " With education , the world is your oyster , " my father told me . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh , Father told me you 'd opened the new girls ’ school , so I simply had to come to meet the new schoolteacher . |
| 29 | ‘ Your father told me he 'd gone to Australia and Aunt Pamela had joined him there , ’ Harry replied . |
| 30 | Janina 's father told me he had no faith in God . |