Example sentences of "my father [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 2 | Once when Hugh Dalton , the local MP and a Cabinet Minister , was about to open a factory by snipping the red tape with a pair of ornamental scissors , my father stepped out of the crowd , took the scissors and demanded a house as a disabled ex-serviceman . |
| 3 | So my father went over on the Monday evening and after such a a young man paid such interest in the garden and paying so much compliments , Well you ca n't go home without coming in for a cup of tea . |
| 4 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 5 | My father went off to the park . |
| 6 | ‘ My father came back with the cross ; his friend , Major Hope , paid for my mother 's treatment . |
| 7 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 8 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |