Example sentences of "father had been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 2 | His father had been a prominent supporter of Edward II , and had been described by one chronicler as ‘ worse than Piers Gaveston ’ . |
| 3 | His own father had been a skilled mechanic ( a phrase which conveyed little to Clara ) and as he himself had managed to purchase by his own labours a three bedroomed semi-detached house in a pleasant suburban district , he might have been thought to have cause to feel fairly content with life . |
| 4 | He was always available , fair weather or foul , home or away , and his father had been a much-respected captain of our village team two or three decades ago . |
| 5 | Arthur 's father had been a famous comic called Willie Moe , and his mother , Queenie , was the butt in Willie 's routine . |
| 6 | Years and heredity within the Anglican Church ( his father had been a colonial bishop ) had so formed his manners and speech that it was sometimes thought so . |
| 7 | My father had been a great admirer of Kemal Ataturk — he fought in the Turkish army against the British in Gaza — and Ataturk 's picture hung in the living-room . |
| 8 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 9 | Where the father had been a great general , the son was rash and impetuous . |
| 10 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 11 | In this case , the man 's grandfather had been a well-known bone-setter for his gentle touch , but the father had been a bone-cracking bone-setter . |
| 12 | Her father had been a strict Baptist . |
| 13 | Fergus had questioned this , because his own father had been an ordinary townsman , one of the small landowners near to Tara . |
| 14 | In the second presidential debate , in Richmond , Virginia , Bush again raised the issue of Clinton 's student activities but was sharply rebuked by his opponent who recalled how Bush 's own father had been an ardent opponent of McCarthyism . |