Example sentences of "father [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your father asked me to — to keep an eye out for you . |
| 2 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles . |
| 8 | My father warned me about French men . |
| 9 | Later he said , ‘ Your father called me in the office . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ My father tells me in his latest letter that Hester and the baby are doing well , ’ she informed Ruth . |
| 11 | One day , after a particularly good school report , Father took me for a walk past a second-hand bookstore where I often browsed enviously . |
| 12 | My father took me to the Soviet Union when I was very small . |
| 13 | Eventually my father took me to my room , undressed me and put me to bed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 16 | Lily 's father presented me with an old pistol he had . |
| 17 | This was all in addition to the usual lessons my father gave me on mathematics and history and so on . |
| 18 | ‘ My father left me in sole and total charge , ’ she said slowly , battling to retain control of her emotions . |
| 19 | I remember when I was five , my father telling me of World War I starting , you see . |
| 20 | She knew me to be a rogue as soon as she clapped eyes on me and , whilst her father ushered me to a seat , she watched girlishly out of the corner of her eye . |
| 21 | My father carries me from the car and I glide up two flights of concrete steps , suspended in midair by anti-gravity . |
| 22 | My father carries me in his arms . |