Example sentences of "father [be] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am Miss Maine , my father is an officer in the London Fire Service . |
| 2 | ‘ My father is an unpleasant old man and I daresay I shall be . |
| 3 | His father is an important visitor from the United States of America , " Tran Van Hieu told them in French . |
| 4 | My father is an educated man , and he passed a lot of what he already knew on to me , as well as doing a fair bit of study himself into areas he did n't know all that much about just so that he could teach me . |
| 5 | Looking at Filmer again , for Filmer civil society was a natural organism of which the state was an integral part just as a father is an integral part of a family . |
| 6 | I know his father 's an old business acquaintance of Auntie Louise and Uncle Joel . " |
| 7 | ‘ My father was an industrial chemist and he said if you want to go and work for them , go and work for them . ’ |
| 8 | Her father was an eccentric , outspoken critic of the government , who was killed by police in 1985 . |
| 9 | Uderzo 's father was an Italian lute-maker who had moved to France shortly before his son 's birth in 1927 . |
| 10 | Not only was I an only child but my dad 's father was an orphan and my mum 's family had been happy to get out of Kensal Town — which was a little down the road . |
| 11 | To take two able junior ministers at random , no-one could claim that Peter Lilley , the son of a personnel officer , or John Redwood , whose father was an accounts clerk , belonged in the patrician old Tory party . |
| 12 | He went to work in the local cotton mill where his father was an ‘ overlooker ’ . |
| 13 | Here the father was an Irishman , a stableman , drunken and violent , who eventually deserted , leaving the mother with her own parents . |
| 14 | I had only observed that your father was an able under-butler and addressed him accordingly . |
| 15 | His father was an Ulsterman who emigrated to Scotland to work in the mines , where he married a local woman and presided over a strictly protestant household in which both parents were active members of the Orange Lodge . |
| 16 | His father was an instrument maker with the Marconi Company in Chelmsford , before moving to the firm of George Kent in Luton . |
| 17 | Born in 1953 in Fort Benning , Georgia — his father was an Army man — young Robert grew up in Eugene , Oregon , listening to his parent 's jazz , soul and blues records : Sam Cooke , Ray Charles , B.B. King and Miles Davis . |
| 18 | His father was an ex-general who had retired long before the war , and the life he and his wife led was essentially an upper-class thirties one . |
| 19 | His father was an immigrant from British Guyana , his mother a local woman who , according to Turpin 's biographer Jack Birtley , had to withstand the stigma attributed to those making ‘ mixed marriages ’ ( 1976 , p. 13 ) . |
| 20 | He was now a lieutenant in the First Foot Guards , but had been seconded to the Prince 's staff because his father was an old friend of the Baron Rebecque . |
| 21 | It was never like this , and my father was an Old Bastard if you must know . |
| 22 | Well I think my mother did a good job but my father was an alcoholic and that 's , that made a difference , not just to him but to the entire family and I think probably to my own children . |
| 23 | Portia 's father was an ambassador and the family had lived in Nigeria , China and Washington — places where scheming was hardly a novelty . |
| 24 | His father was an engineer and his mother worked for a minor official in the Ministry of Post and Communications . |
| 25 | Suddenly he becomes involved with someone whose father was an active anti-Soviet right up till his death . |
| 26 | Her father was an expert on classical Greek art and her mother a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn . |
| 27 | Father was an old-time Methodist ; sex and the devil were one . |
| 28 | Er we also did general engineering because my father was an engineer er and my grandfather was a blacksmith , my father was an engineer . |
| 29 | Er we also did general engineering because my father was an engineer er and my grandfather was a blacksmith , my father was an engineer . |
| 30 | ‘ My father was an atheist , yet he used to mark a cross on the top of bread before cutting it . |