Example sentences of "he [be] the father " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are Ferdinando 's wife , he is the father of your sons , is that not enough to make you trust in him ? , |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe he is the father of our country , ’ says Kris Kristofferson . |
| 3 | He is the father of four children . |
| 4 | At the social level he is the father of fertility , procreation and regeneration . |
| 5 | Whereupon Judah asks for her favours , for which she takes his signet , cord and staff as a pledge for payment — so that , when pregnant , she is able to prove that he is the father of the child and so legitimize her twins and perpetuate the line of her husband . |
| 6 | ‘ No , but I think he 's the father of one of my students , ’ Robyn improvised . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's the father of the girl . ’ |
| 8 | He 's the father of my three girls |
| 9 | He 's the father of the twins . |
| 10 | As a further result women were subordinated sexually , because the change to patriliny and monogamy restricted the sexual freedom of the woman , in that it was essential for the man to know he was the father of her children . |
| 11 | In October , she and the baby moved to London to join her former boyfriend , Danny Palmer , also then 16 , who may have thought he was the father . |
| 12 | Simone Thiroux , the Canadian student so enamoured of Modigliani , was still shadowing him ; by now she was pregnant and claiming he was the father . |
| 13 | Jack 's sister Lorraine said she knew that June had dated Don Rose around that time but no one could confirm that he was the father , or his secondary claim that he had married June before the baby was born ( he said they had separated quickly and she 'd later got a Mexican divorce , though apparently no papers are available to support his allegations ) . |
| 14 | We used to call him Daddy Wilkins because he was the father of a large family , but they had all grown up , got married and spread about , so he was left on his own — probably not able to cook for himself which is why he went to live at Mrs Raw 's place . |
| 15 | Katherine came back and their marriage lasted twenty-nine years , to end in 1963 when Quinn admitted he was the father of a son born to an Italian girl . |
| 16 | The students appealed to Deng to assist them in their struggle , maintaining that he was the father of reform . |
| 17 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 18 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 19 | He was the father of a child by a very attractive lady ( who had subsequently married a very close friend of mine ) . |
| 20 | FORMER Canterbury opening batsman Ian Robert Hartland ( 16 matches 1961 to 1966 ) died of cancer in March at 52. he was the father of Blair , who made his Test debut for New Zealand against England in January . |
| 21 | ‘ They also say that he was murdered because he was the father of Cissie Jordan 's baby . ’ |
| 22 | He will be remembered more for the fact that he was the father of the most famous actress Dame Sybil Thorndyke and her equally famous brother Russell Thorndyke , author of the Dr. Syn stones . |
| 23 | Or no , she did n't say he was the father ? ’ |
| 24 | If so , it was more than probable that he was the father of her baby . |
| 25 | And he was the father of her bastard child . ’ |
| 26 | However , in another statement issued on his behalf on May 11 he admitted that he was the father of the child , Peter Murphy , and that he had paid Murphy a lump sum in 1990 taken from the church 's reserve accounts in his former diocese of Galway . |
| 27 | Of Merovech he records nothing other than his supposed descent from Chlodio and that he was the father of Childeric . |
| 28 | He was the father of democracy and the forerunner of all our Prime Ministers . |