Example sentences of "[pron] father [verb] the first " in BNC.
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1 | There my father wore the first pair of plus-fours and my mother had the first Eton crop ( an accident of her father 's home hairdressing ) . |
2 | His father struck the first chord and Davide began , |
3 | In their competition for French support Ferdinand and his father became the first afrancesados ( Frenchifiers ) . |
4 | Andrew , 13 , was just three years old when his father suffered the first of a series of strokes . |
5 | To enhance even further the quality and efficiency of the yard 's hull shapes , he persuaded his father to build the first commercial test tank in the world in 1881 , with assistance from Froude 's son , superintendent of the Admiralty test tank in Torquay . |