Example sentences of "father [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cottage where my mother and father lived was . |
| 2 | I like to think I am broad-minded , but the language my father used was beyond the pale , and all because he could n't have a shave ! |
| 3 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |
| 4 | ‘ When I was young , people used to call me up , messin' with me , tell me my father 'd been killed . |
| 5 | Ian knew perfectly well that his father loathed being called prof , disliked intensely the way the boy went between the bathroom and his room with his towel flung over his shoulder so that he could flaunt his nakedness . |
| 6 | The grounds on which the father relied were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices heard evidence from which they could properly conclude that his costs had been incurred as a result of the actions and omissions of the local authority ; ( 2 ) as there was no machinery for taxation of costs the justices were correct to assess the amount of the costs ; ( 3 ) the father was entitled to his costs incurred in the Family Proceedings court to the extent allowable under the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 and the justices were correct to hold that the actions of the local authority justified making the costs order which included the costs of the hearing on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |
| 7 | The smith 's shop where my father worked was reached through a doorway at the right of the carpenter 's shop . |
| 8 | Yeah the eldest boy when his father died was eighteen |
| 9 | Although she was the dominant parent , she had made no attempt to do so until then ; Robin 's father remembered being circumcised after his father 's death , when he was seven . |
| 10 | The hair which his mother said was too long , and the grease which his father said was too much . |
| 11 | Pinkney 's father had been nearly bankrupted through a failed business venture with Phipps . |
| 12 | As Keith explained , it was not any easier for him to take up employment with the RAF because his father had been a career forces man . |
| 13 | It was later compounded by the fall-out from a family explosion : on Roger Ackerley 's death in 1929 the son discovered that , first , his father had been maintaining a separate menage and that , second , the money had run out . |
| 14 | Domestic life with his father had been the training-school for this distinctively Lewisian vision . |
| 15 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 16 | Their father had been arrested ; their mother was isolated in an area cut off by fighting . |
| 17 | Her father had been an equerry to the Queen and to King George VI before that ; and before her grandfather died in 1975 and her father became the Eighth Earl Spencer and moved to Althorp , the family had lived in a house on the Sandringham Estate . |
| 18 | The article also alleged that the star 's father had been directly involved in rounding-up Jews and homosexuals who were tortured and murdered in Nazi concentration camps , the court was told . |
| 19 | Peter Silverlock , whose father had been a Member of Parliament , acquired it in 1367 . |
| 20 | The buildings were the same kind as where her faceless father had been . |
| 21 | Pablo Merry del Val , whose father had been Spanish Ambassador in London , conducted briefings for the correspondents and censored their dispatches . |
| 22 | Her father had been an invalid from the First World War — some kind of nervous trouble , I believe . |
| 23 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 24 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 25 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 26 | His grandfather and great grandfather had both been long serving District Masters and his father had been an Ulster Volunteer . |
| 27 | In this case , the man 's grandfather had been a well-known bone-setter for his gentle touch , but the father had been a bone-cracking bone-setter . |
| 28 | Kylie 's astute accountant father had been particularly impressed by Blamey 's management of stars like Mark ‘ Jacko ’ Jackson . |
| 29 | Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him . |
| 30 | ‘ Because my father had been absent I immediately wanted him to become my father , but of course he could n't be . ’ |