Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of my father " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last I had avenged the ghost of my father . |
| 2 | I had drifted into caddying , much to the disgust of my father who had other ideas about careers for his eldest son and heir whom he had sent to the best public school he could afford ( a slightly philistine , second-division one near Brighton ) and supported through university ( Sussex-by-the-Sea ) . |
| 3 | Let me be a free man — free to travel , free to stop , free to work , free to trade where I choose , free to choose my own teachers , free to follow the religion of my fathers , free to think and talk and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty … |
| 4 | If this alliance no longer exists , it is certainly not the fault of my father " . |
| 5 | ‘ So it was do-it-yourself time , ’ says bill , ‘ and , with the help of my father , we did just that . |
| 6 | I was born in Hampstead at 10.00 pm. on a Tuesday night and my Mother was very glad to see me , because I was her first boy ; she had already produced two girls with the help of my Father and as the years rolled on she gave birth to another two boys . |
| 7 | I sat and tried to hear , waiting for the sound of my father 's key in the lock , when I could emerge from the back , into the front , maybe , the dining-room . |
| 8 | My mother had said to Lili one day that she thought I was marrying Syl because he was so much older than me and would take the place of my father . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with the shock of my father 's death . |
| 10 | It was the first meeting in nine years — for the day of my father 's funeral does n't really count . |
| 11 | I think they should remember the way our Congress , at the behest of my father and my father 's lawyers , agreed from the outset to underwrite all the maintenance and security and everything to do with the physical appearance and upkeep of the National Gallery in Washington . |
| 12 | And that was in my own country , the land of my birth , and the birth of my father and my mother , and their fathers and their mothers . |
| 13 | All I 've ever got out of it are a few funny smells and the tap-tap of my father 's stick . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't have the slightest desire to see the restitution of my father 's property , ’ he added in that 1968 interview , and ‘ I was always in favour of socialism in the sense of nationalisation of major means of production . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , my dear , ’ says the voice of my father , ‘ if you will persist in breast feeding an eight-month-old infant , with three great big teeth — ’ |
| 16 | I came to kill you , my lord , for the killing of my father . ’ |
| 17 | But I feel I should return just a moment to the matter of my father ; for it strikes me I may have given the impression earlier that I treated him rather bluntly over his declining abilities . |
| 18 | This perception was increased by the behavior of my father , who cared nothing tor appearances it this allowed him to save money . |
| 19 | Various jobs followed in sales and marketing , with the shadow of my father always looming , together with his wish that I should work for his company . |
| 20 | When she was pronounced to be the image of my father , I suspected that something belonging to my father must have got inside my mother to the place where the baby was being carried . |
| 21 | I duly promised crossed my heart and — spat which was the custom of small boys at the time — and I never did break that promise to Dad Tam whilst he lived , and to this day I believe in my heart that the figure overlooking Princes Street Gardens is in the image of my father , complete with a handsome Kitchener moustache . |
| 22 | It was the summer of my father 's death . |
| 23 | I thought the world of my father . |
| 24 | There can be no doubt that he was devoted to his father — his first book , published 13 years later , was dedicated ‘ To the memory of my father : Nathan B. Cohen ’ and there are a number of references to him in Leonard 's work . |
| 25 | Obviously the death of my father impacted greatly upon my childhood years . |
| 26 | ‘ To intercede for the soul of my father . |
| 27 | You will understand then something of the climate prevailing around Darlington Hall by the time of my father 's fall in front of the summerhouse — this occurring as it did just two weeks before the first of the conference guests were likely to arrive — and what I mean when I say there was little room for any ‘ beating about the bush ’ . |
| 28 | But being the son of my father , it was his aim to send me out to serve my time as an engineer . |
| 29 | ‘ The pleasure of being top , and nothing else , except the interest of my father , made me do such homework as I did in the evenings … . |