Example sentences of "father [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your father has been at Una to marry Drennan , cajoling her , pleading with her , aye , and threatening her ! |
| 2 | I do n't think Father has been in the kitchen in his life . |
| 3 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 4 | And yet their brands were no different and no better than what could be bought here , because her father had been to Harrods store in London and had a contract with them , and they were very good to deal with , for they gave the lowest prices to orders from clubs , messes , hotels and buyers . |
| 5 | His father had been to the Wesleyan Collegiate Institution at Taunton until the age of sixteen , when he had left and gone into the business . |
| 6 | The submission of the father had been to the effect that the court should leave open the opportunity for him to apply for custody of the children in the divorce proceedings then pending . |
| 7 | As she grew up , her father had been of no account to her . |
| 8 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 9 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 10 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
| 11 | People were cruel , like her father had been before the divorce , like Miss Shaw and Miss Rist were to Miss Malabedeely . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed softly , and wondered if her mother and his father had been among them . |
| 13 | Often the furniture looked lost after he had left a room and because of this Endill soon learnt to tell where his father had been in the house . |
| 14 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 15 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 16 | Denis had had to reveal it when applying to join — they 'd have found out anyway that his father had been in the RIC . |
| 17 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |
| 18 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |
| 19 | Probably his mother and father her mother and father had been in there anyway . |
| 20 | John Baring 's father had been from 1882 senior partner in the merchant bank of Baring Brothers , and he himself joined the firm on leaving Cambridge , served his apprenticeship as a clerk , travelled widely in North and South America , and was made a full partner early in 1890 . |
| 21 | ‘ As a matter of fact your father 's been in touch with us . ’ |