Example sentences of "her father was a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father was a man of the kirk in Scotland , in Linlithgow : |
| 2 | Her father was a life peer who had held some sort of office under a Labour government . |
| 3 | Her father was a missionary and she felt the call to help him . |
| 4 | Her father was a diplomat at the Embassy in Rio de Janeiro , and as she had no other family she insisted on joining the course at once . |
| 5 | Her father was a master mason and a leading local Methodist . |
| 6 | Her father was a schoolmaster who went to Lyon for a year as part of his training course and came back with Mme Wyatt in tow . |
| 7 | Born in Whitby 's cobbled Church St , where her father was a saddler , Mabel left Whitby in the 1930s to pursue her teaching career on Teesside . |
| 8 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 9 | Her father was a cousin of the Cheshire Bartram-Hyndes , she tells me . |
| 10 | Jennifer informed me her father was a helicopter pilot . |
| 11 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 12 | ‘ Her mother was a very wealthy woman , and her father was a kind of handyman who helped out in the convent , and did a bit of work up at Westlands . |
| 13 | Her father was a lawyer who wrote , he was quite an eminent man , of great intelligence ; erudite . |
| 14 | Her father was a postmaster her mother owns a small dry-cleaning business . |
| 15 | ‘ Her father was a playwright . |
| 16 | Her father was a dealer in second-hand cars and it seemed he did pretty well at it . |
| 17 | Her father was a thoroughbred from the Trakehner stud , founded by William I , King of Prussia in 1732 , and her mother was an Anglo-Arab . |
| 18 | She came from an ordinary background … her father was a railway clerk . |
| 19 | Dalbir , too , tells how her father was a tyrant . |
| 20 | Her father was a ship 's master and wood merchant , and with his two-masted brig , Clytus , traded out of Saltcoats and other Ayrshire harbours , carrying mainly coal and limestone to small ports on the west coast of Scotland and around Ireland . |
| 21 | Her father was an expert on classical Greek art and her mother a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn . |