Example sentences of "father 's [noun] [conj] [pron] was " in BNC.

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1 This was her father 's invention and he was very proud of it .
2 There was certainly a note of concern in my father 's voice but it was overlaid with annoyance , as if I 'd let him down by finding a dead body .
3 Blindly she had accepted her father 's word that he was dead .
4 Mozart , then between 14 and 17 , was still very much under his father 's thumb and it was to be another eight years before he broke free from Salzburg , settled in Vienna and married Constanze Weber .
5 He told Mr Richard Sturt , the Canterbury and Dover coroner , that Mr Heddle 's daughter , Caroline , a 23-year-old veterinary nurse , had identified her 48-year-old father 's body after it was found in the car in a chalkpit at Chartham , near Canterbury .
6 A black undertow dogged Eardley 's life , perhaps partly attributed to her father 's suicide when she was seven .
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