Example sentences of "your father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too bad Henry Phipps happened to mention your father 's debts to that chinless wonder you had on the string . |
| 2 | That will teach your father to allow your ‘ admirers ’ to visit the Black Lion . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If you carry on like that , Andrew , I 'll have to tell your father . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't disturb your father , Andrew , ’ Nanny would say , ‘ he 's an important man . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He is no longer your father and you are no longer his daughter . |
| 6 | And Iain — and Alastair , of course , and your father , if he will come so far. , ‘ I will come so far , ’ Sandy McGlashan proclaimed from six rungs up the ladder , ‘ and I willing them a song of William Ross 's to send them on their away . |
| 7 | And your father — ‘ My father ? |
| 8 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's your father up there on the screen , ’ she said . |
| 10 | ‘ Your father was a hard man for the women in his day , ’ McQuaid said addressing the two girls . |
| 11 | ‘ I was very sorry about your father , ’ he said . |
| 12 | On Saturday night at the end of the Rosary Moran said , ‘ I want to offer a final prayer to God that He may guide your father on the right course , ’ and they all knew , even to the boy Michael , to what he was referring . |
| 13 | ‘ What do you think of Rose marrying your father ? ’ the old woman grew confident enough one day to ask Maggie in her good-humoured , forceful way . |
| 14 | ‘ You should know you 'll not change your father now and he means everything for the best for the whole house , ’ she argued forcibly but the strain was showing on her own drawn , anxious features . |
| 15 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 16 | To make a really successful card design it to complement your father 's hobbies . |
| 17 | If your father has a favourite hobby , gather together a few well-chosen gifts that you know he will like and wrap them in a presentation basket . |
| 18 | ‘ Your father 's told you ? |
| 19 | ‘ If you do n't mind what you say to your father , you might remember he 's also a detective chief inspector . ’ |
| 20 | The road was wet and your mother has suggested that your father may have been driving exceptionally fast . ’ |
| 21 | Have you been suggesting that the dead girl might have been your father 's mistress ? ’ |
| 22 | Suppose , for instance , she had spent the weekend in some South Coast resort and tried to hitch a lift back to London from your father ? ’ |
| 23 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 24 | Your father was always good to me , and his uncle . |
| 25 | You know your father . |
| 26 | ‘ You mean your father . ’ |
| 27 | If I peel an orange now , will you eat a little — just to please your father ? |
| 28 | Is n't your father visitor enough for you ? ’ |
| 29 | December 13 , 1956 : Dear Bunny , There are some delightful , first-rate pieces in your book , such as the one about your father and the first of the two about the Jews , but I am as always distressed by your conception of Russian history , which is all wrong , being based on the stale Bolshevist propaganda which you imbibed in your youth . |
| 30 | I said I did n't know , and thought no more of it and it was n't until David returned and was performing at the Arts Lab on the Sunday night that I remembered and said to David , ‘ Oh , by the way , while you were away I had a message — your father is not very well ’ . |