Example sentences of "father 's [adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bomb Circle , my dad 's leg and his stick , his reluctance to get me a motorbike perhaps , the candles in the skull , the legions of dead mice and hamsters — they 're all the fault of Agnes , my father 's second wife and my mother . |
| 2 | I attended my father 's prep school where I was one of the worst-behaved pupils , constantly talking after lights-out and fooling around in class . |
| 3 | He was clearly so fearful of the answer to his father 's unasked question that he scarcely dared pose it himself , but then summoned up the courage . |
| 4 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 5 | He has inherited his Father 's good looks and his Grandmother 's good nature and easygoing outlook , which is usually too easygoing for his Father 's liking . |
| 6 | Ian was very upset by his father 's intransigent attitude but he knew what he wanted to do and that was to pursue his studies by every means possible , although by now doubts were beginning to cloud his mind . |
| 7 | It had been unnecessary , of course , for her to mention that the silver was one of my father 's main responsibilities and one he took great pride in . |
| 8 | See , mibbe Heathcliffe was Kathy 's father 's illegitimate son that he brought back to be brung up with his Respectable Family . |
| 9 | After his father 's death in 1885 the cable companies persuaded him to set up his own manufacturing business , Muirhead & Company , which was so successful that in 1894 he was able to take over his father 's old firm when it was finally wound up . |
| 10 | But Louisa , who had been brought up with her father 's constant comment that she was ‘ the prettiest girl in the world ’ , grew up with a very unreal need to feel praised and fêted for her looks , and when as a teenager she did n't get the same kind of compliments from other people , she not surprisingly felt unloved and unattractive as a result . |