Example sentences of "[pos pn] father [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just seen my father = I 'm after seeing my father |
| 2 | Yes , erm , that was where I was born and er then when I was five my father erm hit a bad patch and he sold the house and er he decided to become a shoemaker in Baysford . |
| 3 | We were at at there , and I went with er with my father er on a Friday and we came back that night . |
| 4 | But erm eventually we moved from there and my father er we moved into a company house in Village . |
| 5 | ‘ That is my father 's house . ’ |
| 6 | I am six years old and eat pickled herring with my father 's mother Miriam Leah , who has changed her name to Mary . |
| 7 | Following in my father 's footsteps , I would like to build myself a Cliff Bowers saw bench . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was young my mama used to say ‘ grow up and see how tough the world is ’ ' and ‘ I was unhappy at my mother 's death/ I was unhappy at my father 's death/ … |
| 9 | ‘ The oddly shrewd-hearted torpor of being carried home in the dark , a tourist , in my father 's arms ’ enshrines the notion of love as essentially menacing and predatory . |
| 10 | My father 's nightly trips across the river were usually to the Colbert in Sheffield [ built around the time of Pearl Harbour , half a block from the Ritz , today a parking lot ] and the Tuscumbian [ built in 1950 , a block from the Strand , today part of a bank ] . |
| 11 | As she pouted and sighed , locked in an impossible sexual position , my father 's leg jerked involuntarily , catapulting the Maltesers onto the floor . |
| 12 | She nodded sharply to him and said , naming his rank precisely , ‘ I 'd like you to meet my father 's solicitor , Mr Updike . |
| 13 | ‘ We have come to Puritania , ’ he said , ‘ and that was my father 's house . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't have the slightest desire to see the restitution of my father 's property , ’ he added in that 1968 interview , and ‘ I was always in favour of socialism in the sense of nationalisation of major means of production . ’ |
| 15 | Christopher , who was a friend of my father 's , had the kiln brought here from my father 's workplace miles away , and said he 'd buy whatever I produced . |
| 16 | My father 's dead ! ’ |
| 17 | My father 's favourite flowers were dark-red carnations . |
| 18 | My Father 's Rule |
| 19 | of my father 's hands , |
| 20 | I hold my father 's rule |
| 21 | I was utterly devastated by my father 's death . |
| 22 | I had felt his absence keenly at my father 's funeral , among the little group of family mourners at the Bristol Crematorium . |
| 23 | She would understand that since my father 's death there had been , as it were , a vacancy in my home which , with careful management , her wayward mother might come to fill , secure within the bonds of kinship . |
| 24 | For my father 's part , he accepted Jane 's presence without question ; and she had consideration for his duodenal ulcer , and looked up to him as head of the household , and fitted in like the rest of us . |
| 25 | I dreamed that Elm Cottage , my father 's old home ( and his father 's and grandmother 's home before him ) , was in terrible distress . |
| 26 | At that time the house belonged to my father 's youngest sister . |
| 27 | I 'm acting as my father 's secretary . ’ |
| 28 | my father 's God , and I will exalt him . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's my father 's house , the one with the black roof ! ’ he cried . |
| 30 | But my father 's cousin was head of the conservatorium in Wales , so I suppose it is somewhere in the family blood , ’ confessed Carol . |