Example sentences of "[pos pn] father [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that was one of the reasons which prompted my father to teach me to read , and so divert me from my inexorable pursuit of my mother . |
| 2 | At the miracle of my birth , I came forth when my father summoned me . |
| 3 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 4 | ‘ My father raised me . |
| 5 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 6 | ‘ My father says I 'm mad practically every time I see him . |
| 7 | ‘ But my father says you would love me best if you were my wife , so that would be better . ’ |
| 8 | Maybe it wo n't , and my father says it 'll be over in six months anyway , so none of them will have to go . ’ |
| 9 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 10 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 11 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 12 | ‘ So my father took him , and he got off the cart and off he went . |
| 13 | My father took her on his knee and soothed her … . |
| 14 | This place was big until my father took it over and he kept the places going and we still have the two places . |
| 15 | My father made me attend evening lectures for a time on sound , light , and heat — with no effect . ’ |
| 16 | Er every night they used to play cards and when I was eighteen my father made me learn cards . |
| 17 | My father made me a pair of wooden clappers and I used to rattle these and call out : |
| 18 | When the doctor would n't make the night call , saying it could wait till morning , my father said he would shoot him if my mother died . |
| 19 | I said that we would make the trip to Montparnasse one night and sing around the " Coupole " and the " Dome " for Reggie , my parents and their friends , but my father said he would pay us a lot of money to stay away . |
| 20 | My father said he 'd never known a season before when chairs and commodes were the best crops . ’ |
| 21 | My father said I could . |
| 22 | Enid : My father said I would be sent away if I told her . |
| 23 | My father said I could not be received . |
| 24 | My father said I 'd got to leave school at fourteen . |
| 25 | My father had it and his father and his father . |
| 26 | My father thinks they should be in curved lines . |
| 27 | My father thinks she 's far too forward for a Romany girl , but that 's merely her way of doing things . |
| 28 | ‘ You know , my father thinks he has somehow mastered the situation . |
| 29 | But my father kept it . |
| 30 | They felt very alone — my father tells me that . |