Example sentences of "my father [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps that was one of the reasons which prompted my father to teach me to read , and so divert me from my inexorable pursuit of my mother . |
| 2 | At the miracle of my birth , I came forth when my father summoned me . |
| 3 | ‘ My father raised me . |
| 4 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 5 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 6 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 7 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 8 | My father made me attend evening lectures for a time on sound , light , and heat — with no effect . ’ |
| 9 | Er every night they used to play cards and when I was eighteen my father made me learn cards . |
| 10 | My father made me a pair of wooden clappers and I used to rattle these and call out : |
| 11 | They felt very alone — my father tells me that . |
| 12 | ‘ My father tells me in his latest letter that Hester and the baby are doing well , ’ she informed Ruth . |
| 13 | " My father left me land here , " Hasan said . |
| 14 | ‘ My father left me in sole and total charge , ’ she said slowly , battling to retain control of her emotions . |
| 15 | In the end I remember I said to him that I was just a spoilt Yank and my father sent me money so he need n't worry about a thing . |
| 16 | My father sent me the cheque , needless to say , so David and I thought we 'd better get married because that was the reason he sent the cheque . |
| 17 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 18 | Before I went , my father asked me : ‘ Are you going to marry Elizabeth , or do you love another woman ? |
| 19 | My father asked me why I said these awful things . |
| 20 | ‘ My father told me that a woman 's body odour was the sexiest smell in the world . ’ |
| 21 | But most was not at such a high level , was concentrated within the last six or seven generations which ( as Peters notably argues ) was the limit of what a contemporary grandfather could tell as ‘ what my grandfather told me ’ , or ‘ what my father told me about his grandfather ’ ( Peters , 1970 ) . |
| 22 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 23 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 24 | My father told me that when Darwin 's Beagle appeared in their island channels , the Tierra del Fuegans did not even notice it because their imaginations could not grasp so vast a ship . |
| 25 | ‘ But my father told me that he had sold his interest in the business ! |
| 26 | I have never forgotten that near the end of his life my Father told me that in his loneliness Basil was the one of his five children who had given him most sympathy and understanding . |
| 27 | " With education , the world is your oyster , " my father told me . |
| 28 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 29 | My father told me a joke once , about a man who marries an ugly opera singer because he loves her voice . |
| 30 | My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles . |