Example sentences of "[pos pn] father was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard has admitted to a general feeling in the family that Horace was somewhat ‘ arrogant ’ , this son that now wore the mantle : ‘ My father was the eldest but his health and nature ( an interesting , significant addition ) prevented him taking over . ’ |
| 2 | The title of the holding company was The British Cocoa and Chocolate Company and my father was the chairman . |
| 3 | My father was the last managing director . |
| 4 | My father was the Earl of Holden s younger son , she said . |
| 5 | My father was the village schoolmaster and I , like my sisters , Helen and Pat , was born in the schoolhouse , a solid , stone-built structure incorporating two large classrooms as well as the usual living quarters . |
| 6 | ‘ My father was the driest comedian you ever heard , and my mother had a wonderful singing voice — much better than mine , ’ Lynne says . |
| 7 | My father was the sweetest man in the world and there was nothing I could fight him for , or do against him , or he against me , because nothing was said that I did n't agree with , or he did n't agree with , because I was a very easy child . |
| 8 | ‘ My father was the government . |
| 9 | My father was the only one of her relations who dared to tell her that this man should not be trusted . |
| 10 | My father was the head waiter at The Savoy , my mother opened one of the first milk bars in Soho , and my grandmother was a vegetable cook at London 's Park Lane Hotel . |
| 11 | My father was the grandson of Lord Chelmsford , the Lord Chancellor , and was the third son of General Lord Chelmsford . |
| 12 | My father was the other sort , a romantic dreamer . |
| 13 | My father never glorified war , but we were always aware of the traditions of service and the military traditions of the family and in his generation my father was the exemplar . |
| 14 | and my father was the sexton of the church . |
| 15 | Their father was the inimitable Sandy Greig , then a colleague on my newspaper group and a wonderful companion in the Press-box whether at cricket or rugby . |
| 16 | But of the two , her father was the more proficient at acting out his part , for he could play the jolly man , the thoughtful husband , and the caring parent . |
| 17 | Her father was the greatest actor-manager since Irving ; she was proud to be taught by him , would as proudly appear in a part which left him , the great Asshe , with no other place for himself than that of Lord Capulet . |
| 18 | Her father was the kinsman , friend , and protégé of Thomas Wentworth ( later first Earl of Strafford , q.v. ) , and she spent her childhood as the pampered daughter of a prospering family : ‘ I enjoyed great easiness and comfort during my honoured father 's life , having the fortunate opportunity … of the best education that kingdom could afford . ’ |
| 19 | Her father was the only member of the family to reject Koresh 's teaching and the only one still alive . |
| 20 | She was a prim and proper little Fraulein , although her father was the villain , and Carruthers loved her , but dared not speak to her without a chaperone . |
| 21 | His father was the royal agent at Sandringham . |
| 22 | Their father 's name was Theunis Krankoor , and it is probable that either he or his father was the first person to take that name too . |
| 23 | His father was the god Lug , and his mother Deichtire , a mortal . |
| 24 | His father was the laibon at the time and he had five brothers . |
| 25 | Thereafter it appears that Haycock himself rather than his father was the main architect member of the firm , although , in partnership with his brother Robert , he continued to engage in building as well as architecture until c .1845 , after which he practised as an architect only . |
| 26 | Or sixty two rather but his father lived until he was eighty six and his father was the District Goods and Passenger Manager at Cambridge and er later on , of course , er when he was old enough , he , he was in the same office as his father was but not the same position , you see , but he was a clerk , a railway clerk , and his brother was Stationmaster of Colchester and his grandfather was also a Stationmaster and that would be in Queen Victoria 's reign when , when railways first began and then again , you see , in those first days , you see , when there were highwaymen and that sort of thing erm signalmen , signalmen were issued with a truncheon for their own safety , you see , and I 've got one . |
| 27 | ( His father was the count of Turenne . ) |
| 28 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 29 | He said your father was the Earl of Kinmuire but he did n't know who your mother was . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Your father was the one who struck the deals ; all I did was choose the animals . ’ |