Example sentences of "[pos pn] father be be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My father 's being released and I 'm the last to know ! |
| 2 | When her father was being stern with her , and she hid her face from the camera in the pillow on the morning before her wedding , he thought of all the arguments that he would have used to persuade her to get up and face the situation . |
| 3 | Yet her father was being stupid , bragging about the business . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , ’ Nellie said , glancing quickly at Carrie as if to signal that her father was being secretive about his work again . |
| 5 | His father is being comforted by relatives . |
| 6 | She had even left a photograph of Joseph Hegarty in the boy 's room lest he should think that his father was being banished from his memory on top of everything else . |
| 7 | So he had thankfully devoured his second breakfast , simply pleased that his father was being so attentive to him and not connecting this in any way with his own outburst of the night before . |
| 8 | ‘ Your father 's being released from hospital at lunchtime , ’ Damian drawled . |