Example sentences of "my father [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 2 | My father reached forward to the only chair in the room , a small wooden one , and placing both hands on its back , brought himself to his feet . |
| 3 | Once when Hugh Dalton , the local MP and a Cabinet Minister , was about to open a factory by snipping the red tape with a pair of ornamental scissors , my father stepped out of the crowd , took the scissors and demanded a house as a disabled ex-serviceman . |
| 4 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |
| 5 | So my father went over on the Monday evening and after such a a young man paid such interest in the garden and paying so much compliments , Well you ca n't go home without coming in for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 7 | My father went off to the park . |
| 8 | ‘ My father came back with the cross ; his friend , Major Hope , paid for my mother 's treatment . |
| 9 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 10 | My father worked part-time in a dance hall and he picked up a Leeds United badge which I wore everywhere for about 6 months until I lost it : - ( ( ( ( . |
| 11 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 12 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |