Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] my father " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	‘ How long has my father had outstanding bills with the tradespeople ? ’
2	I was often called Hamlet because I so resembled my father 's appearance in his most famous film , the ‘ Coronation ’ Hamlet , so named because it had been released in Coronation year .
3	I suddenly heard my father 's voice telling me that all acting is mere imitation .
4	My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated .
5	Perhaps he did finally but originally it was merely to defeat my father . ’
6	So did my father , he was n't to bother himself with the day-to-day things like washing sheets or buying food , that was her job , she made it plain .
7	I know this is a crime , and so does my father , and I think that sometimes he regrets the decision he made seventeen years ago , in his hippy-anarchist days , or whatever they were .
8	I 've just seen my father = I 'm after seeing my father
9	‘ I 'll just see my father to a taxi and come back for you . ’
10	I never saw anything , I just heard my father telling my mother — ’ She broke off abruptly , one hand rising guiltily to her mouth .
11	I could just imagine my father jumping up and down on this argument , this need for meaning , for faith .
12	" I always obey my father without question as I did today , and all I ask is that you help me to continue to do that . "
13	When I fought against it , the resulting unpleasantness always upset my father .
14	I hardly knew my father . ’
15	I had once asked my father if there were hyenas in England .
16	I always liked my father 's weird parcels —
17	I was still obeying my father when the war came , so it was Hitler who really promoted my release .
18	Although I can recall so clearly seeing my father off to the war , and even more clearly the Zeppelin , the mid-twenties are not so clear .
19	If I could get a home where my kids could grow up with daily fear and where I could also help my father , I could push this hell out of my mind and start afresh with my family .
20	They really hate my father — they 'd do anything to get at him . ’
21	They simply told my father to hurry up and put his jacket on .
22	All this profoundly attracted my father .
23	Yet so well did my father hide his feelings , so professionally did he carry out his duties , that on his departure the General had actually complimented Mr John Silvers on the excellence of his butler and had left an unusually large tip in appreciation — which my father without hesitation asked his employer to donate to a charity .
24	A good War , with all the right ingredients and a more spectacular ending than most ( I even had my father asking me what all the explosions and the fire had been about , when I got back to the house that evening ) , but too long ago .
25	Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born .
26	My mother rarely liked my father 's friends .
27	Kenelm had then sold my father a pair of eighteenth-century cupboards . ’
28	I bought some wiring and bulb fittings when I was about 11 years old — I fitted the electrics as home-made lighting — then gave my father a shock when he touched the aquarium , fused the lights , and set fire to my bedroom .
29	Five or ten minutes by there , and getting introduced to all the old colliers that were in the same manhole , that we called it : I started down then to follow my father ; and I had to follow him like a little dog , all the way .
30	The oddly named My Father 's Vertigo , a near narrative piece bringing out the best in LCDT , set the programme on its right tracks and proved that dance can contain wit .

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