Example sentences of "[was/were] her father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clothes were all very well , they were her father 's life and she knew that all the privileges she enjoyed were hers because of clothes and the stupendous success they had brought him , but she could n't care about them . |
| 2 | ‘ It is said of her grandmother that the only members of the cabinet who were not her lovers were those who had reason to believe they were her father , ’ Society Wag , Darling |
| 3 | ‘ I never realised you were her father . ’ |
| 4 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 5 | They were her father 's words and she had never forgotten them . |
| 6 | So good were her father 's hints and tips that she was appointed official yearbook photographer at high school and from there she went on to study applied photography at college . |
| 7 | Perhaps they were her father 's , perhaps not , but she was not going to ask . |
| 8 | Her exemplar was her father , a local patriarch and evidently an apostle of Samuel Smiles-type individualism : she omitted reference to her mother in Who 's Who . |
| 9 | Ari sat across from the man she 'd been told was her father , appraising him with a critical eye . |
| 10 | Maggie gazed at the twenty-foot-long boat that was her father 's main source of livelihood . |
| 11 | Victoria knew her Uncle Donald was something to do with the Queen 's castle , and that Aunt Rose was her father 's sister . |
| 12 | Her favourite partner was her father ; neither of them could serve to save their lives and most of the balls ended up scattered on the lawn , but they made a handsome couple on the court . |
| 13 | She turned now as she heard footsteps coming through the store-room , and there was her father standing by her side . |
| 14 | It did open , at seven minutes past , but it was her father who entered the kitchen . |
| 15 | Nancy always proclaimed that the only man in her life was her father , who wrote to her faithfully every Sunday , ‘ My best boy friend ’ , she called him . |
| 16 | No , it was her father 's attitude that had shocked her . |
| 17 | Was her father home yet ? she wondered . |
| 18 | Her mother had filled her early childhood with wonderful memories of picnics and riding ponies and of a stream of smiling schoolfriends who were always made welcome , but it was her father to whom she 'd felt closest . |
| 19 | The one person it did n't seem eccentric to , because he did n't notice it , was her father . |
| 20 | ‘ Who was her father ? ’ |
| 21 | I feel more that it was her father . |
| 22 | And when Sam was snapped topless in Majorca , it was her father who struggled with a photographer to try to save her honour . |
| 23 | Yet he was her father , and she was aware , in this instant , that she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone on earth except herself ; more than husband , far more than children . |
| 24 | The boarding school was her father John 's idea after a spell at Grianan Training Centre — a school for girls with behavioural problems run by nuns under a strict regime — had failed to quell her rebellious attitude . |
| 25 | Jenny , aged 4 years , was her father 's favourite . |
| 26 | There was her father , bleeding from the throat . |
| 27 | Because you see that was her father 's name , and she did n't get on with her father . |
| 28 | So why was it and how come that Madame was claiming that the opposite was true and that it was her father who was the person out of favour ? |
| 29 | ‘ Why you ? ’ was her father 's first question , echoing Ellie 's own bewilderment . |
| 30 | The only place she could think of was her father 's . |