Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few , if any , suspected the doctor or my father of being involved ; or if they did they did not say so . |
| 2 | ‘ You take us home , ’ Kaptan said stoutly , ‘ or my father will be very angry . ’ |
| 3 | So , although I am genetically related to my mother 's brother 's , or my mother 's siblings ' children or my father 's siblings ' children , the fact is , the siblings of both groups are genetically related to each other . |
| 4 | ‘ Is it after you or my father ? ’ he whispered to Tallis when she came back to him . |
| 5 | If you spot a place you know , or hear the name of a town that 's familiar , you tell me — no one else , mind — not a breath of a word to Garvey or my father — and I 'll sneak you out … |
| 6 | Or my father would sing |
| 7 | Or my father . |
| 8 | The heroine in her scenario is , for example , ‘ often carried away by the anti-hero , but rescued either by her Father or the Hero — often reduced to support herself & her Father by her Talents & work for her Bread ; — continually cheated & defrauded of her hire , worn down to a Skeleton , & now & then starved to death ’ . |
| 9 | Certainly , there was nothing peaceful in the relationships between either the brothers or their father . |
| 10 | All too often women say to me , basically they 've had to fake a sick line themselves because their mother or their father |
| 11 | However , whatever the initial reaction , a significant number of the girls thought that in fact their relationships with either their mother or their father , or both , had actually improved since they had had their baby . |
| 12 | Belinda says : ‘ I remember looking at her clearly for the first time , searching for that visual connection with my family or her father 's , some genetic connection to identify myself with her , but seeing instead that otherness — the look of a stranger . |
| 13 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 14 | She did n't know if the tears were for herself or her father . |
| 15 | Apart from other considerations , many other almost insuperable obstacles , in order to get hold of Mike or her father she would have to go through switchboards and in her father 's case a secretary . |
| 16 | The normal way of classifying a child is by his Or her father 's profession , and this is essentially all we have to go on in this case . |
| 17 | It is not at all clear why a person 's life-style , behaviour ( both linguistic and non-linguistic ) and opportunities should be so radically affected by his or her father 's occupation . |
| 18 | The report concluded that a pupil 's performance was closely related to his or her father 's occupational status : the higher that status , the better a pupil 's performance , not only in leaving school less early but in having a better academic record and , in the headmaster 's judgement , more ‘ promise ’ . |
| 19 | A claimant had a right of settlement in only one parish , originally in his or her father 's place of birth . |
| 20 | That occurred although Lord Morison , the Court of Session judge who issued the new decree , made it absolutely clear after listening to all the evidence , that he did not consider any of the allegations made by Mr Vafa 's former wife , or her father , to have been well founded or substantiated . |
| 21 | And it was her duty to be guided by an intellectual judgement and authority that was superior to hers — in other words , her husband 's or her father 's . |
| 22 | There is no protest from him or his father . |
| 23 | He might be killed in the fight ; or his father might … |
| 24 | Their father 's name was Theunis Krankoor , and it is probable that either he or his father was the first person to take that name too . |
| 25 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 26 | Many of my father 's family had worked for Sir Roger , or Sir Richard before him , or his father before him . |
| 27 | He had never asked about the child , partly from a kind of delicacy but mainly because he preferred not to think of her as a mother , and she had volunteered no information about Timmy or his father . |
| 28 | His mother or his father or one of the group was always with him . |
| 29 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 30 | This enamelled box , made either for Aymer or his father , displays the arms of England , Valence , Brittany ( Dreux ) , Angoulême , Brabant and Lacy . |