Example sentences of "where [pos pn] father [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The glow from the furnace in the steam-filled room was like the flames of hell licking out to show her the place where her father had gone . |
| 2 | Anthony was now away at the university where his father had taught . |
| 3 | He had , it turned out , travelled in Felicity 's train to Exeter , where his father had met him . |
| 4 | Instead of being educated at Christ 's Hospital in London , where his father had secured a nomination for him , he was admitted to the Asylum for deaf and dumb children in the Old Kent Road , London . |
| 5 | The only question , in fact , was where his father had gone , why he had left him alone . |
| 6 | Dreamer crouched above the place where his father had lost his youngest son . |
| 7 | Shortly afterwards the family moved to Fenny Stratford , where his father had acquired the Bletchley ironworks , manufacturing steam engines and boilers . |
| 8 | In 1907 his family moved to Shrewsbury , where his father had found promotion with the Joint Railways . |
| 9 | He shuffled past well ordered , dusted shelves and racks , and past the little office where his father had sat and schemed for most of his life . |