Example sentences of "my father " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenelm had then sold my father a pair of eighteenth-century cupboards . ’ |
| 2 | Originally I wanted to be a doctor like my father , but it was soon clear I did n't have the intelligence for that — that 's to say I was n't any good at mathematics and physics and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | ‘ Andrew ! ’ called my father from inside . |
| 4 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 5 | And my father 's said he 's going to help me with the fees , so it 's all going to work out . ’ |
| 6 | ( I should be saving , says my father . ) |
| 7 | Maybe if I keep mum and keep my fingers crossed — what did my father always say when I could n't have something : ‘ Them that ask do n't get , them that do n't ask , do n't want . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That is my father 's house . ’ |
| 9 | Where is my father ? |
| 10 | My grandfather was born at Farrochil , on Bolfracks Hill — we would still be there — but was my father to slave at carting stones from the Menzies 's quarry for old Wade to build his damned bridge ? |
| 11 | James Flemyng has been at my father , complaining about dirt in the water and the noise of the saws and axes . |
| 12 | He sends his factor up to terrify my father — after dark — when I have gone over to Camserney with Alastair . |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry , Angus , ’ he was saying , ‘ my lad from Ballinluig never turned up , I had to get my father to blow the bellows — ouch ! some of them are still hot — that bag has charred , spread them out to cool , or keep them for tomorrow . |
| 14 | ‘ It must have been like this in Arkaig when my father first went there , ’ Cameron said to Menzies . |
| 15 | ‘ You know why — I am the man of that house since my father … |
| 16 | And your father — ‘ My father ? |
| 17 | ‘ My father ran a pretty tidy ship , ’ he recalled , in wistful recollection . |
| 18 | There can be no doubt that he was devoted to his father — his first book , published 13 years later , was dedicated ‘ To the memory of my father : Nathan B. Cohen ’ and there are a number of references to him in Leonard 's work . |
| 19 | Leonard has admitted to a general feeling in the family that Horace was somewhat ‘ arrogant ’ , this son that now wore the mantle : ‘ My father was the eldest but his health and nature ( an interesting , significant addition ) prevented him taking over . ’ |
| 20 | my father ; and stood about his bed |
| 21 | My father died among old sewing machines , |
| 22 | But it is not a conclusion : ‘ All my family were priests , from Aaron to my father , ’ suggesting that on the family 's spice-box should be inscribed ( as was the old custom ) : |
| 23 | The day I went up to university I left you all , country gentry all … country where my father was stifling . |
| 24 | There was a knock on the door in the early hours of the morning , she had curlers in her hair , and my father , thinking it was for him , told her not to panic . |
| 25 | When I was five years old , my father was arrested . |
| 26 | I am six years old and eat pickled herring with my father 's mother Miriam Leah , who has changed her name to Mary . |
| 27 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 28 | And that was in my own country , the land of my birth , and the birth of my father and my mother , and their fathers and their mothers . |
| 29 | I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge . |
| 30 | Some years ago , my father built an 8in rise-and-fall tilt arbour saw bench from a set of plans produced by Cliff Bowers . |