Example sentences of "[be] her father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Pisani 's informative notes with this set supply a good deal more information , revealing an extraordinary story indeed : Eckhardt-Gramatt é's; maiden name had been Friedman , after her mother 's ex-husband , who may not have been her father . |
| 2 | Being English she knew little about wine — that had been her father 's province . |
| 3 | He looked like a buccaneer of old except that he wore not the wide-sleeved shirts and breeches of the past but the rough working clothes that had been her father 's . |
| 4 | She was at fault for not taking a hand in the business before now , she could have helped him , been her father 's right hand . |
| 5 | She wore no jewellery , except a gold and platinum twisted ring that some friend had given her , and the heavy signet ring , perhaps it had been her father 's , that weighted one hand . |
| 6 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 7 | Jenna had never known if that last advice had come from her mother or if it had been her father 's order . |
| 8 | Terry Rourke had been her father 's chauffeur , a handsome , black-haired Irishman , with a lively , impudent face , quite unlike Dr Neil 's . |
| 9 | He was thankful she was n't wearing boots but her hair had disappeared again under an awful black felt hat that looked as if it might have been her father 's , and when she handed her coat in at the cloakroom she kept the hat on . |
| 10 | To her grandfather , admittedly , a man who must have been old enough to have been her father , but still surely nothing to get in such a stew over . |
| 11 | Nightingale had been her father 's amah for five years , and was younger than Rachel , but was hard-working and loyal , kept the villa as clean as a new pin , and was becoming a part of the family . |
| 12 | Look ’ — he stepped back , at the same time pushing Jessie to the side — ‘ I do n't want to knock you out , seein' as you 're her father , but by God ! |
| 13 | That man , who was old enough to be her father , had ‘ completely destroyed her trust , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ No woman ’ , she had written , ‘ genuinely fancies a man old enough to be her father . |
| 15 | The nearly worst thing that could happen would be her father coming back . |
| 16 | ‘ But you became greedy , Barney , ’ she said , ‘ you became so greedy you were willing to sell your own daughter like a beast at the fair , forcing her to marry a lecherous oul wretch that 's old enough to be her father . |
| 17 | She could almost hear the tick of its works , that and the beat of her heart ; for , if Rab was young enough to be her son , then her husband was old enough to be her father . |
| 18 | He was old enough to be her father , and she convinced herself that she was suffering from too much imagination . |
| 19 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 20 | Maybe she wished it was still the young man who shared her bed instead of a man who-was almost old enough to be her father . |
| 21 | Could it really be her father , gripping her in his arms after seven years ? |
| 22 | Not only was her employer old enough to be her father , but he was a married man , and even if he were not , such a relationship would be totally foreign to her upbringing , if not her very nature . |
| 23 | ‘ Monsieur Verveine must be old enough to be her father ! |
| 24 | Although , she thought with uncharitable spitefulness , he was old enough to be her father . |
| 25 | I watched them leave , paying particular attention to Mathilda and how she held the arm of a grizzle-haired , thickset man who appeared to be her father . |
| 26 | She was scandalised by the very idea , especially since the MD was a delightfully avuncular man , certainly old enough to be her father . |
| 27 | It would never be her father 's face that materialised ; how could it be ? |
| 28 | He was old enough to be her father ! |
| 29 | I wanted to be her father — ’ |
| 30 | It could be her father then . |