Example sentences of "father ['s] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the slightest mention of her father 's name I got upset , and even when people said is n't she a gorgeous little baby . |
| 2 | No I do n't , no that was just a nickname they give him for years ago , matter of fact I the other day , I was walking up and he called me , so I took me father 's name you see , nickname , that was . |
| 3 | Although devoted to his father 's memory he always resented his extravagance and improvidence . |
| 4 | To buy back a few of her father 's paintings she would be glad to sell the house and move into a rented flat . |
| 5 | In my father 's day they would not have dared even to think like that ! |
| 6 | On Father 's Day I think what he 'd like best is to go shopping and then he 'll take me out , to Dunstable Downs to see the gliders . ’ |
| 7 | On Father 's Day he 'll have a lie-in and get loads of presents — a chocolate , a jumper and a T-shirt , which he 'd probably like ‘ Daddy ’ written on . ’ |
| 8 | On Father 's Day he 'll ask me and my brother to bring him cornflakes in bed and a cup of tea . |
| 9 | With father 's leave he was confirmed in the Church of England at school . |
| 10 | As the one who might one day step into his father 's shoes he was also the one who stood most in his father 's shadow . |
| 11 | Encouraged initially by his father in the belief that the acquisition and mastery of the culture dispensed in the state educational system was a necessary prerequisite to self-advancement , and spurred on by the conviction that to avoid his father 's fate he must acquire the one element that his father lacked , Nizan proceeded systematically and relatively uncritically between 1917 and 1924 to immerse himself in bourgeois culture . |
| 12 | I did n't sleep in my father 's bunk I used to sleep on the table , I er had an old flock mattress , that 's what I had , an old flock mattress and a flock pillow . |
| 13 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 14 | ‘ A part of your father 's gift I think you have , if you can learn not to deface it for spite because I am in the same world with you . ’ |
| 15 | How like his father 's eyes they are . |
| 16 | With his father 's employees he was generous but firm . |
| 17 | On the other hand , he clearly looks to God as his Father , and into this Father 's hand he commits his spirit when he dies . |
| 18 | Destined for his father 's career he studied at Guy 's Hospital where , in 1850 , he became demonstrator in chemistry . |
| 19 | But in order not to repeat his father 's duplicity he uses self-consciousness and temporal manipulation to keep the artificiality of this procedure in view . |
| 20 | As she reached her father 's house she walked straight in at the gate , which she hardly bothered to open quietly , and flung the stone as hard as she could at the glass of the bedroom window . |
| 21 | When I realized I was walking towards my father 's house I quickly changed my direction . |
| 22 | At his father 's funeral he is rumoured to have said ‘ There is now only the old woman 's death to pray for' ’ ( he stood to inherit property in the town worth £900 ) . |
| 23 | When James Halden led Sarah away from the scene of her father 's death she had never felt so ashamed . |
| 24 | Since her father 's death she had written regularly to her grandfather , but there had been no word in reply from Hester . |
| 25 | After her father 's death she moved to Petersfield , Hampshire , where she supported herself by washing clothes , brewing , and other types of manual work . |
| 26 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
| 27 | After his father 's death he was taken into the house of a rich Christian lady of liberal sympathies — for Origen too liberal since she had a Gnostic chaplain . |
| 28 | For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed . |
| 29 | He later married her and after his father 's death he was able to buy a house in St. Peter 's Hill . |
| 30 | Although only fifteen at the time of his father 's death he soon showed himself to be a cunning and unscrupulous politician . |