Example sentences of "father was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My father was a flight sergeant caterer and I suppose I just followed in his footsteps . |
| 2 | But her outlook was subtly different , say from that of Edward Heath , whose father was a carpenter in a small town in Kent and who , like Mrs Thatcher , went to a local grammar school rather than the private boarding schools favoured by most Tory leaders . |
| 3 | His father 's father was a Congregational minister who came from Ireland early in life and ministered in various English chapels . |
| 4 | Her father was a magician ; he knew something of the old magic , but he turned it against the little people to whom it belonged , and demanded their money , their livestock and even their children to appease the gods with rivers of blood . |
| 5 | ‘ Your father was a hard man for the women in his day , ’ McQuaid said addressing the two girls . |
| 6 | His father was a steel-worker . |
| 7 | ‘ She was a business woman six days a week and had two children — my sister and me — so she really had to organise her life , ’ says Sue , whose father was a dairy farmer . |
| 8 | She wants to believe my father was a changed man , that no girl was with them , so she 's convinced herself they were alone . |
| 9 | Her father was a high official and had taken her with him on a trip to London and she had returned with her hair in orange stripes . |
| 10 | All of a sudden , Jack saw that his father was a sort of hero — a maddening , eccentric hero but a man whose decency , courage and good humour were as unshakable as his sincere piety . |
| 11 | His father was a dealer and he learnt his first lesson at eight years old . |
| 12 | His father was a rabbi and a biblical text was to create another well known work by the son , ‘ Job 's Illness — Loss , Grief and Integration . ’ |
| 13 | His father was a housemaster at Eton , his mother a lecturer in classics at London University . |
| 14 | Sir William said yesterday : ‘ My father was a good amateur ornithologist and my mother was a little bit of a botanist . |
| 15 | Soane was born in Goring on Thames , where his father was a bricklayer and he began his career as an errand-boy . |
| 16 | His father was a public relations man for Dr Barnardo 's Homes and would chat away and do all that kind of thing , whereas David was very much like his mother in terms of showing affection . |
| 17 | He came from a cricketing family — his father was a leading fast bowler in Antigua — and his great talent was evident very early on , so that he was already popular with the fans as a youngster . |
| 18 | Father was a huge figure bending over him in the dark . |
| 19 | Dana got an allowance from home : his father was a government official ; his mother worked as a teacher — she sent him wads of onion-skin typing paper that were then unobtainable in Europe , and also drugs , bottles of Dexedrine . |
| 20 | I can not think what came over me as I was brought up chapel like you but unfortunately my father was a miner and not a grocer . |
| 21 | The distinction of the Son from the Father was a theme vehemently taken up by the Roman presbyter Hippolytus . |
| 22 | The father was a wild-haired rough-looking young man , very cheerful , and with such a strong local accent that at first I thought he was speaking Gaelic . |
| 23 | In fact , Karajan 's father was a doctor . |
| 24 | My father was a doctor in the local hospital , so he would sometimes be called away during the evening . |
| 25 | It is worth noting how paternal authority overrode differences in occupational status and in income : in this particular case the father was a canteen cook , and Zuwaya generally considered that a lower occupation than one deemed intellectual . |
| 26 | Wanless , the meritocrat whose late father was a storeman in a cement works on Tyneside , is something of a mould-breaker . |
| 27 | His late father was a Kyrgyz who proudly served as a border guard for the KGB in far-flung regions of the former Soviet Union . |
| 28 | Diderot was a provincial , from Langres in Champagne , where his father was a master cutler , who would eventually leave him a comfortable inheritance , a little less than the salary of a professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 29 | Mrs Shephard , 52 , a former inspector of schools and senior education officer , has always joked that nothing could have prepared her more for being thrown into the deep end than leaving Cromer , where her father was a cattle dealer , for St Hilda 's College , Oxford , where she read modern languages . |
| 30 | Brownlow , a Jersey tax exile whose father was a close friend of the Duke of Windsor , originally offered the Abdication papers to the Royal Archives . |