Example sentences of "[verb] her father " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is nonetheless scathing of the intellectuals in the Hamburg legal establishment who ‘ did n't raise a finger ’ when the Nazis dismissed her father from his job . |
| 2 | It was postmarked Inverary and bore her father 's handwriting . |
| 3 | At the time she seemed to accept her father 's wish . |
| 4 | He had rendered her almost mindless there and it had all been a cheap trick , not even part of his wish to get her to accept her father . |
| 5 | Violently she shook off his outstretched hand , and the English document announcing her father 's change of name fluttered to the ground . |
| 6 | Already at least three soldiers in her home corps had approached her father to ask about the possibility of marriage . |
| 7 | She put her name forward to the chairman of the local party only to find later that he had approached her father to get his consent then double-checked by asking her husband for his permission too . |
| 8 | Sheila opened her eyes wide and fixed her father with a precisely constructed look of wistful adoration . |
| 9 | Leo , you must tell her that it is Doctor 's Orders that she must not look after her father any more — that it is too much for her — that she need not even see her father until she is quite well enough , and the doctor has himself offered to find a suitable place , so that she will know her father will be well looked after . |
| 10 | Artemis put her heels down , straightened her back and softened her rein , so that by the time she caught her father up , she had Buttons perfectly controlled . |
| 11 | Having dragged the body of her brother-lover from the pyre , she had abandoned him , returning south , Tallis imagined , to find her father again . |
| 12 | She found her father a job — as the internal postman . |
| 13 | Stacey found her father , a 47-year old roofing worker , slouched in an armchair with his legs over the arm . |
| 14 | She was still in Frome , we may hope ; if she had nursed her younger sister and helped her father through his years of loss , she had done well indeed . |
| 15 | In the boathouse , she helped her father tie the boat down to the rock . |
| 16 | I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares . |
| 17 | Generally Felicity visits her father alone . |
| 18 | ‘ The best Caroline 's done , ’ pronounced her father , ‘ is thirteenth for effort . ’ |
| 19 | Helen and Edward now met frequently on the Common , and she visited her father 's grave with him as he tended it with wild flowers . |
| 20 | Sarah , who lived near to the Brompton Hospital , visited her father regularly although Raine 's hostility complicated an already fraught situation . |
| 21 | Artemis frowned to herself once more , as in all her young life she had never heard her father say anything which was meant to be even remotely funny . |
| 22 | Anne had never heard her father swear before . |
| 23 | He reminded her of her concern when she had heard her father had gone out to lunch the day he died , and he put it to her that she had guessed whom he had met . |
| 24 | Did she think her father would bid for him , if he promised to pay Stanley back ? |
| 25 | She was next aware of dimly seeing her father lying face down on the path , his hands bent up behind him and Richard with one knee on his back . |
| 26 | Seeing her father with Mathilde briefly , she was again impressed by how happy they always were together . |
| 27 | But she still had her eyes hidden against seeing her father thrown across the stage . |
| 28 | When his daughter Nannette inverted that action to make her down-striking action , she included the check , completing her father 's piano action as he himself might have done had he seen Gottfried Silbermann 's pianos , or indeed those of Cristofori , rather than those of Johann Heinrich Silbermann . |
| 29 | But now the men managing her money are accusing her father of a bid to take complete control . |
| 30 | Quite deliberately , she summoned the memory of the anguish of six years ago , the job she loved summarily barred to her and her Communications course sacrificed ; and she dwelt especially on the dilemma that had torn at her then , the agonising conflict between her obstinate determination to pursue an uninterrupted career in radio at a time when there were no positions to be had in Johannesburg but possibilities in Durban , and a heart-wrenching reluctance to leave her parents alone when advanced emphysema was shortening her father 's life so cruelly . |