Example sentences of "father [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although it does n't let your daughter 's father off the hook , it does n't let you off either . |
| 2 | Yeah because I had said to father during the day on Sunday , I wonder if any of our children are alive ? |
| 3 | It is a trauma concerning competition against the father for the possession of the mother and culminates in the suppression of the phallic or genital drive by the taboo on incest and parricide . |
| 4 | She received no support from the father for the child , and had to rely upon charity and from what is called ‘ the food bank ’ because she did not receive enough money from the welfare services to feed the child . |
| 5 | Just before the onset of her fatal illness , Lizzie recorded a superb rendering of the North-east witch ballad Alison Gross , got from her father for the Grampian Television film Journey to a Kingdom . |
| 6 | In Annie 's personal life , she shows how shallow were the maternal affections that left her children to their fearsome father for the sake of her own freedom to proclaim on atheism and contraception , loudly defended in court . |
| 7 | She met Mr Carter , and married him , thinking he 'd be a good father for the children , but Hayley hated him from the start . |
| 8 | Christianity tried to make a reconciliation with the father for the crime against him , but it ended by putting the son in place of the father . |
| 9 | No , John insisted , I must come home , and home he went , but never told his father about the experience . |
| 10 | So wrote Rudyard Kipling 's father about the mule in the 1890s . |
| 11 | In December 1915 , at the very time Falkenhayn was submitting his Memorandum , he was writing to his father about the possibility of a separate peace with England or Russia , ‘ if we do not want our fatherland to keep on fighting until complete exhaustion ’ . |
| 12 | I asked my father about the people in the adjoining houses , they must have lived in perpetual fog , and I remember he told me that perhaps they got their houses at a reduced rent . |
| 13 | When we arrived back at the Grange , Cathy told her father about the visit . |
| 14 | Trent surprised a disconcertingly familiar look in his eyes , a combination of guilt , anger and bitterness that he had learnt to recognise in his own father as the approach of one more milestone in his downward journey . |
| 15 | But the psychoanalytic theory of paranoia enables us to see that these two equally-well-attested interpretations are not in any way in conflict with one another because in the latent content of paranoia we find both a tendency to symbolize the father as the sun and a delusion of persecution concerning him which in a typically paranoid way denies the homosexual factor by saying I do not love him , he hates me . |
| 16 | The Earl of Crawford and Balcarres , a former Tory minister , became the life peer Lord Balniel in 1974 , only to succeed his father as the earl in 1975 . |
| 17 | Wilson identified with his father , to the extent of wanting to have genital , genital contact with him , since Wilson saw his father as the author of all his skills , his strength and all that he 'd been grateful for . |
| 18 | They need to remember that even Jesus did not primarily draw attention to himself , but taught men that they could find the Father through the way he showed , the truth he revealed , and the life he lived . |
| 19 | Jesus the Son was sent into the world by the Father through the Spirit . |
| 20 | ‘ You do that and I 'll pursue your father through the courts for every last penny Eddie owed me . ’ |
| 21 | Chase focuses on Kristeva 's reworking of primary narcissism , namely that the infant identifies with the ( imaginary ) father through the mother 's desire , so that the mother is always a sign to be read . |
| 22 | Christian prayer is normally offered to the Father through the Son , or ‘ in his name ’ , and ‘ in ’ or at the instigation of the Spirit . |
| 23 | ‘ Obviously , since you never saw your own father after the age of six . |
| 24 | Jesse Lipcon , father of the microVAX and the DECie now charged with running DEC 's NT interests , characterizes NT as the ‘ Great White Hope ’ around DEC . |
| 25 | Gratian ( following the great Father of the Church , St Jerome ) in his Decretum , the first widely-used manual of canon law , says that heresy is " perverse dogma " ( C xxiv q.3 c.26 ) , i.e. a false and new opinion at variance with established dogma . |
| 26 | Among them was an impressively-dressed figure whom Owen recognized to be the Father of the church . |
| 27 | The Samoan people explain the mythos of Creation as follows : as Na Atibu , the father of the gods , lay dying , he decided the world was ready for mankind and that it was time for mortals to settle the earth . |
| 28 | When Gilgamesh later dreamt that Enlil , the father of the gods , had decreed his destiny , it was Enkidu who interpreted for him , explaining that it indicated his certain mortality as well as the gifts of unexampled supremacy over the people and victory in battle . |
| 29 | The place from which he rose and to which he descended at the limits of earth and Underworld was the primeval ocean , from where he had emerged , which was the god Nun , the father of the gods . |
| 30 | Oppenheimer 's ‘ defects of character ’ , the political indiscretions and Communist Front connections of his past , were seen to be an excuse for the real reason for his suspension : that the father of the A-bomb was ‘ lacking enthusiasm ’ and ‘ lukewarm ’ about the H-bomb . |