Example sentences of "father [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yong and his father were the first people we had met who had actually been to Aru . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | She said one of her most memorable times was in 1924 , when Malcolm Muggeridge 's father was the candidate in her constituency . |
| 4 | He did not find it awkward that his own father was the tutor of the college and so responsible in a double sense for his pastoral care . |
| 5 | The title of the holding company was The British Cocoa and Chocolate Company and my father was the chairman . |
| 6 | Arty 's father was the first to speak . |
| 7 | There was the son of a Dallas police officer who held a press conference last autumn to ‘ confess ’ that his dead father was the ‘ second gunman ’ some believe fired at the president from a grassy knoll . |
| 8 | His father was the royal agent at Sandringham . |
| 9 | The General 's father was the Rev. Henry Montgomery , the vicar of St. Mark 's Church , Kennington , when Bernard was born , but two years later he was appointed Bishop of Tasmania , to whence the family moved returning to England some twelve years later , when Bernard was fourteen years of age , and in January 1902 , the family moved into a Victorian house , 19 , Bolton Road , Chiswick , quite close to the River Thames and open sports grounds . |
| 10 | Thus , while marrying the father was the most likely outcome of an extra-marital conception in 1970 ; by 1988 , single women were more likely to terminate the pregnancy or give birth to the child without marrying the father ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 11 | Pamela 's father was the chairman of a large retailing group which included one of the most exclusive stores in Mayfair . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My father was the last managing director . |
| 15 | Mary 's father was the Bessy , the part her son had taken in the revival of the Bellerby play . |
| 16 | This time , the stories were of sexual abuse , and again the father was the perpetrator . |
| 17 | Within the family , John 's father was the only one to express reservations , ‘ and not because Kathie is white , but because she is a committed career woman . ’ |
| 18 | near Bonsam , and Margaret 's father was the Rector there . |
| 19 | My father was the Earl of Holden s younger son , she said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ My father was the driest comedian you ever heard , and my mother had a wonderful singing voice — much better than mine , ’ Lynne says . |
| 23 | Annabel 's father was the manager of Crane-Boulder 's Cotton Mill . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His father was the god Lug , and his mother Deichtire , a mortal . |
| 26 | The atonement with the father was the more complete because ‘ the sacrifice was accompanied by a total renunciation of the women on whose account the rebellion against the father was started ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ My father was the government . |
| 29 | My adoptive father was the son of a South Shields shipyard worker ; he had managed to get a job as an office boy . |
| 30 | His father was the laibon at the time and he had five brothers . |