Example sentences of "[vb past] to [pos pn] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | They proposed to my father that he make a list of all our properties in Palestine so that they could buy them . |
| 2 | ‘ It does n't look like much yet , ’ Belinda reported to her father two hours later . |
| 3 | Quite the contrary , ’ I told him , then put the phone just a little away from my mouth and shouted to my father : ‘ It 's only Jamie again , Dad ! ’ |
| 4 | Then one night the child fell onto the bass drum , plummeting ten feet into the orchestra pit without seeming to harbour a grudge , and it occurred to his father to try bouncing him . |
| 5 | I came to my father 's cousins in England and went to live in Wolverhampton . |
| 6 | Wearily he mounted to his father 's room . |
| 7 | George Felix was surely in a rage , but he was also enjoying being angry , and that was something that never happened to her father , whose rages had made anger such a familiar monster . |
| 8 | Had n't much the same thing happened to her father , hints and innuendoes that had ruined his life ? |
| 9 | I just … . it 's just that I wanted to tell her how sorry I am about … about what happened to your father and brother but , not knowing her , I did n't want to say it in a way that might upset her . |
| 10 | I meant what 's worrying you as well as the awful thing that happened to your father … ’ |
| 11 | The same thing happened to my father . |
| 12 | ROBBIE What happened to my father ? |
| 13 | ‘ I reckon he would have pined to death — that 's what happened to his father . |
| 14 | Sara turned to her father . |
| 15 | I turned to my father . |
| 16 | He sighed deeply — Elizabeth 's fury joined her mother 's — and turned to his father glowering beside them . |
| 17 | Ho turned to his father . |
| 18 | He turned to his father : " What do we do with her ? |
| 19 | One of the young men , the son Osbern , glared and turned to his father . |
| 20 | On a sudden impulse she declared to her father that she was going out . |
| 21 | Hawk nodded to his father , the man who had tutored him as a Dreamwalker , and was not acknowledged . |
| 22 | The Youngest Son walked to his father 's Mercedes with the Sheikh on one side and the uncle on the other . |
| 23 | Saving only the fealty which he owed to his father he swore allegiance to Philip against all men . |
| 24 | ‘ I could n't live as close to other folk as they do , ’ he remarked to his father . |
| 25 | ‘ When the son returned to his father , he was not rebuked , for the father knew that the son had already learned what was necessary now to trust the father . |
| 26 | Something similar came from our gospel reading ; when Jesus promised the gift of the Holy Spirit , before he returned to His Father , He told His disciples : |
| 27 | She lied to her father on the day of her escape when Lancelot says to her of the escape — Act 2 , Scene 5 , line 39–41 : |
| 28 | Guessing that they had been overlooked , Murray senior tore up the one addressed to his father ; Richard 's he opened and read . |
| 29 | Some donors might have great works of art which they 've lost interest in , or that belonged to their father or their grandfather . |
| 30 | ‘ It belonged to your father , ’ the old man said at last . |