Example sentences of "[pron] father 's [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I came across the letter that had been enclosed with the money when I was going through my father 's papers after he died . |
| 2 | So after completing my National Service , I did all the things that everybody does when they 're trying to break into show business , urged on by my father 's insistence that I found employment of some sort — ‘ Get a job , any job , just get one ! |
| 3 | It was a tradition that Edwin should frame all my father 's work but his death made that impossible in this instance so Francis returned the picture . ’ |
| 4 | This was generally considered to be brilliant , although it seems to me that it was as much my father 's achievement as my own , and probably perceived unconsciously by him as such . |
| 5 | There was certainly a note of concern in my father 's voice but it was overlaid with annoyance , as if I 'd let him down by finding a dead body . |
| 6 | Robert Burns called John Tennant , ‘ a worthy , intelligent farmer , my father 's friend and my own ’ and his regard is borne out by the fact that when he was offered tenancy of Ellisland Farm , Dumfries , it was to John Tennant he turned for advice ; they travelled together to the farm and after an inspection , the older man recommended it to his young friend . |
| 7 | ‘ And was it part of my father 's plan that you make love to me to convince me that marriage to Jonathan was the wrong thing ? ’ she said angrily . |
| 8 | — I remember , & never shall forget , my father 's face as he looked upon me while I lay in the servant 's arms — so calm , and the tears stealing down his face : for I was the child of his old age . |
| 9 | But that was n't my father 's house until he got married . |
| 10 | Erm as a private individual I have a right to inherit my father 's house when he dies . |
| 11 | I give you my sworn word as my father 's son that I would never betray any trust you placed in me . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So much seems to be going wrong since my father 's death that it 's unbelievable . ’ |
| 13 | The assumption is that men live in their father 's family until they have families of their own . |
| 14 | Clothes were all very well , they were her father 's life and she knew that all the privileges she enjoyed were hers because of clothes and the stupendous success they had brought him , but she could n't care about them . |
| 15 | This was her father 's invention and he was very proud of it . |
| 16 | Determination surged afresh through Emily 's consciousness , she would rebuild her father 's reputation and his business , she would show the world that Emily Grenfell was no weak-kneed lady of leisure , but as strong as any man when it came to business . |
| 17 | Blindly she had accepted her father 's word that he was dead . |
| 18 | The poor little rich girl who got into the FBI through her father 's influence and who would now be married to some rich Miami socialite had it not been for the timely intervention of Colonel Philpott , who was pressed into giving her a job with UNACO . |
| 19 | However , it was while in the midst of dealing with her father 's problems that her husband had dropped his bombshell . |
| 20 | She remembered her father 's words after he 'd blamed Ace for his son 's death ; words she 'd never repeated to anybody . |
| 21 | They were her father 's words and she had never forgotten them . |
| 22 | Maureen 's attempt to move into her father 's office and her subsequent compromise of commandeering a desk in the room outside it had been gestures of little practical effect . |
| 23 | Her eyes came back to her father 's face and she drew a breath . |
| 24 | She had a sudden vision of her father 's face if he found David Markham on his doorstep and the ensuing battle when he found out what his proposals were . |
| 25 | There had been tears in her father 's eyes as he 'd handed her the satin-lined box containing the jewels and Emily , taking it , had felt a constriction in her throat for , with the gift , her father was recognizing she was now a woman . |
| 26 | A black undertow dogged Eardley 's life , perhaps partly attributed to her father 's suicide when she was seven . |
| 27 | The smell of leather permeated the air and at once Emily was back in her father 's storehouse where he had kept mountains of skins ready to be cut and fashioned into boots and shoes . |
| 28 | Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock . |
| 29 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 30 | But Faraday 's puritanism , and his skills acquired in his father 's smithy and his own bookbinding apprenticeship , were not typical ; and entrepreneurs like Frederick Accum were already selling ready-made apparatus to those who preferred to buy it . |