Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] my father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he told me to wait for him after I had visited my father , and said that he would try to think of a way to help me without arousing any suspicion . |
| 2 | I had adored my father and I took ages to get over it . |
| 3 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 4 | In the end , though , I had to use my father 's Brylcreem . |
| 5 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 6 | But the weekly half-hour I liked best was devoted to the old music hall songs of the ‘ gay nineties ’ , many of which I had heard my father sing . |
| 7 | ‘ Sorry , Angus , ’ he was saying , ‘ my lad from Ballinluig never turned up , I had to get my father to blow the bellows — ouch ! some of them are still hot — that bag has charred , spread them out to cool , or keep them for tomorrow . |
| 8 | I also made documentaries on the battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz , with both of which , as the reader may recall , I had had distant brushes , and the battlecruiser or fast battleship Scharnhorst which had sunk my father 's Rawalpindi . |
| 9 | I had to wheedle the information out of him , but Capron said he was the senior case officer on the investigation into Mills , and could confirm absolutely that it was Mills who was the Soviet agent who had betrayed my father . |
| 10 | ‘ I had done it , ’ Marek crowed , ‘ I had killed the man who had betrayed my father , and I was exhilarated . |
| 11 | And the other was , who had denounced my father ? |
| 12 | If you had observed my father who arrived in this house a week after you did , you will have seen that his house knowledge is perfect and was so almost from the time he set foot in Darlington Hall . ’ |
| 13 | Would think that you had killed my father . |
| 14 | After cycling to various different parts of the village pretending to look for him , therefore , I returned and told the Germans that no one had seen my father ; he was probably out in the country on his bicycle but I had no idea where . |
| 15 | The idea of heroic sacrifice had contaminated her , as it had contaminated my father . |
| 16 | After he had seen my father , he had dinner with my mother , then stayed to smoke his pipe . |
| 17 | He had known my father for many years . |
| 18 | We were also lucky enough to find Goutama , whom I remembered as a young syce in the Legation stables when I was a boy ; he had accompanied my father on his long trek to Nairobi in 1914 . |