Example sentences of "to [pron] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said it was up to me father to try to alter her . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps the best one can say is that when such heroes die they go , in Tolkien 's opinion , neither to Hell nor Heaven , but to Limbo : ‘ to my fathers ’ , as Théoden says , ‘ to sit beside my fathers , until the world is renewed ’ , to quote Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit , perhaps at worst to wait with the barrow-wight ‘ Where gates stand for ever shut , till the world is mended ’ . |
| 3 | 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 ) : |
| 4 | We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car . |
| 5 | Now take me to my father . |
| 6 | One day I suggested to my father that he buy me a pair of binoculars . |
| 7 | It was like this — my uncle and my father came to Britain first and my uncle gave his pay packet to my father , who is older . |
| 8 | He would give £5 to my mum for all the cooking and £5 to my father and £5 to my uncle . |
| 9 | In fact , I remember when I first introduced him to my father and before he 'd said a word , I said , ‘ This is my father ’ who told me afterwards that he had n't realized that it was a boy because I mean … long hair — his hair was really long . |
| 10 | For one of so gentle a character he could be extraordinarily defiant of gamekeepers , and threatening letters to my father passed on to him with added threats were not of the slightest avail . |
| 11 | At that time the house belonged to my father 's youngest sister . |
| 12 | She had been letting the house to my father and mother , but they had now died also , and the whole property was to be sold : the house , yard , outbuildings , flower garden , kitchen garden , and a small meadow . |
| 13 | To my father the Dutchman , by smashing the forces of James II at the Boyne and , more decisively , at Aughrim on 12th July 1691 , saved the country from an Irish-Catholic tyranny of popish servitude , idolatry and nameless superstition . |
| 14 | I must say I never felt very close to my father , we just did n't seem to have anything in common . |
| 15 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 16 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 17 | They proposed to my father that he make a list of all our properties in Palestine so that they could buy them . |
| 18 | And in gratitude , ‘ the old lady gave it to my father . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ My jewels will pay me a passage home to my father ! ’ she shouted at them . |
| 20 | I am sending some recipes to my father , the Earl of Argyll , ’ to remind him . |
| 21 | But Mr Smith 's and Mr Jones 's attention had now been drawn to my father and no doubt rather bored with what the view outside had to offer , they proceeded to amuse themselves by shouting out unflattering remarks concerning my father 's ‘ mistake ’ . |
| 22 | At first , I found it hard to credit such an error to my father . |
| 23 | The whole episode was clearly a great embarrassment to my father , and by the time of that conversation in Lord Darlington 's study , he had long since returned to busying himself as much as ever . |
| 24 | I went to my father and releasing his hands from their grip on the edge of the trolley , eased him down on to the carpet . |
| 25 | Miss Kenton was already leading the way , and we hurried through the house up to my father 's small attic room . |
| 26 | I 'd listened to my father when he told me how to act with the top players , and there was n't a blade of grass I did n't know at St Andrews . |
| 27 | Said , ‘ I 'd like to have tomorrow morning to say goodbye to my father and to Laura and having done that , I 'd like to die tomorrow afternoon . ’ |
| 28 | When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours . |
| 29 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 30 | The same thing happened to my father . |