Example sentences of "father 's [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jackie Nicklaus carries the burden of his father 's name and knows it does not hit golf balls for him . |
| 2 | Jackie Nicklaus carries the burden of his father 's name and knows it does not hit golf balls for him . |
| 3 | Fifteen years earlier Philip 's troops had attacked his father 's village and razed it to the ground , wiping out in one night Eudo 's brothers and sisters , as well as his young wife and child . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |
| 5 | In its origin [ Christianity ] presents to man and woman a glorious picture of sexual integrity : the Son of God who has become man and flesh , knowing from inside his Father 's work and perfecting it in the total self-giving of himself , not only of his spiritual but precisely also of his physical powers , giving not only to one individual but to all . |
| 6 | ‘ He said he knew my father 's family and had I ever seen them . |
| 7 | I pressed my father 's hand and told him that I would protect his grave with my life . |
| 8 | Jehana recovered her girdle from her father 's hand and reclasped it without comment . |
| 9 | Katherine took her father 's hand and pulled him towards her room . |
| 10 | When Cora-Beth heard the news , she threw her arms round her father 's neck and hugged him . |
| 11 | Against all his father 's advice and pleading he then proceeded to Mannheim . |
| 12 | When at last the joss stick on the altar burned down , their mother ushered them to their father 's study and arranged them in a line before his writing-table on which the bamboo cane had already been laid out . |
| 13 | Some moment when she , as a child , was on the verge of doing something wrong , and he could have fulfilled a father 's role and made her do it . |