Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] [pron] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been born and spent the first 10 years of his life in pre-war Germany where his father , a German-Jewish lawyer , was head of the legal department of electrical giant AEG ( now part of Telefunken ) . |
| 2 | With her was her brother Charles — who inherited the home and the title Earl Spencer when their father died in March — his wife Victoria and their daughters Kitty , two , and six-month-old twins Eliza and Katya . |
| 3 | She went to her boyfriend 's in Surrey when her father planned to move back . |
| 4 | ‘ I was in the States when my father suffered a stroke , and by the time I got to his side he was paralysed and could n't speak , which made communicating very difficult . |
| 5 | I had gone there from Florida because my father had pleaded with me to go . |
| 6 | According to Hesiod , in the ‘ good old days ’ before the lordship of Zeus when his father Kronos was king , there was a Golden Age . |
| 7 | It had all happened so long ago , and she had found a successful career for herself in radio anyway , despite Luke 's having caused her to be dismissed from that first job back in South Africa and the subsequent need to abandon her Communications course , and as he himself had pointed out — oh , as she herself had always known deep down , hence her long-ago guilt — she had chosen to leave Johannesburg when her father was dying . |
| 8 | His parents moved to Gillingham when his father became a chargeman of engine fitters in Chatham dockyard . |
| 9 | I moved to a school in Herefordshire when my father closed down Avisford and moved to mid Wales . |
| 10 | Theron 's son Thrasydaios , who ruled Himera as his father 's ‘ proclinsul ’ , and the disgruntled Polyzalus , formed a brief alliance against Hiero . |
| 11 | And anyway , I 'll have to go next door to take over from Arthur if my father does n't get back in time . ’ |
| 12 | In January Joe came home on embarkation leave and was more free to see Sarah because his father was so engrossed in the baby . |
| 13 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 14 | The owner of the stall reminisced about old Wadi Halfa where his father had owned a big tea-house on the Corniche . |
| 15 | Was some bastard getting at Colm because his father was English ? |
| 16 | MacGregor was born in Glasgow in 1937 and moved to Shotts when his father became a doctor there . |
| 17 | On the other hand , he clearly looks to God as his Father , and into this Father 's hand he commits his spirit when he dies . |
| 18 | Neither of Jo 's parents had been to Europe since her father returned from the war . |
| 19 | This year 's PFAS Child of Valour award went to Wendy Windsmoor , aged nine , who stood for no less that 17 minutes , reserving a vacant meter spot in Oxford while her father negotiated the one-way system . |
| 20 | He had been serving in Cairo when my father was born , and afterwards the family came to live in England , as my grandfather was posted to the Military Academy at Sandhurst as an instructor . |
| 21 | Born in Dunfermline when his father was still only King of Scotland , he was a sickly child , weak in the joints and with a speech defect . |
| 22 | Things have n't been easy for Nora since your father died . ’ |
| 23 | " Would n't it be better to wait some , Dad ? " yelled Chuck as his father reached a narrow defile between the thorns . |
| 24 | Daryl because her father and mother were coming . |
| 25 | The ex-Orrell player , who won two Great Britain caps against France three seasons ago , qualifies for Wales because his father , Roy , played for Llanelli before signing for Wigan . |
| 26 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |