Example sentences of "father was in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I went there and there he was , father was in the bottom of a grave . |
| 2 | Ryan 's father was in the music business and he could get all the hot albums before they were released . |
| 3 | My father was in the US army over here . ’ |
| 4 | My father was in the army , we were living in the country , and she stayed and worked in London . |
| 5 | I came to Saigon eight years ago when my father was in the army . |
| 6 | My father was in the Army . |
| 7 | Wattling 's father was in the army , and his mother spent half of the year in Singapore or wherever he happened to be stationed , so his state was even more bereft than Tilney 's , whose parents were divorced but whose father was stationed less than fifty miles away . |
| 8 | and my father was in the woods before the war and they , he , he looked after the woods and cut the trees down and everything and then they were sent |
| 9 | Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them . |
| 10 | As her opening music rang out , she ran up to the wings , her spirits considerably buoyed up by knowing her father was in the audience , and by the fact that she 'd felt a tiny but unmistakable buzz of excitement on hearing those familiar chords . |
| 11 | I was away with my mother and sister at the time , but my father was in the house . |
| 12 | She was fond of this lively piece but , on this occasion , her mind was n't on it because her father was in the house . |
| 13 | He wished his father was in the house . |
| 14 | Vern 's father was in the Merchant Navy — he 's been everywhere . ’ |