Example sentences of "and [pos pn] father [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as soon as I got a little older , I tell you , they 'd sell a horse , and my father hopped on the bike , come over to the school and got me out ; and I come home here , hopped on the old horse 's back and rode to Yarmouth or Norwich , wherever they sold it . |
| 2 | We were a large family of seven and my father worked on the railway and he only had two pounds a week , but we could make three pounds and ten shillings just at the weekend by working the clubs . |
| 3 | This subversive exchange represents one of the ‘ pockets of freedom ’ — Sibylle 's own phrase — that were to be found in every stratum of a superficially homogeneous Nazi society — not just in one branch of the Hitler Youth , but in the army at the battlefront and , of course , at home , where Sibylle 's mother shocked her tea guests by referring to her ‘ dear Jewish friends ’ abroad , and her father listened to the forbidden BBC with the volume turned up full . |
| 4 | As already mentioned ( see p. 280 ) , Robert Dowland 's Musicall Banquet of 1610 included Caccini 's ‘ Amarilli ’ and ‘ Dovrò , dunque , morire ’ and a solo madrigal , ‘ Se di farmi morire ’ , by an early but unimportant monodist , Domenico Maria Melli , and his father succumbed to the new style in at least three of his last songs . |
| 5 | His ancestors had been MPs for Liverpool on and off since 1307 , and his father served in the Parliament of 1625 , besides being sheriff of Lancashire in 1620 . |