Example sentences of "with [pron] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandparent could feel resentful at such unexpected burdens , and sometimes grandchildren were aware of this : ‘ course there was — bits of squabbles at times with me father and me grandfather . ' |
| 2 | I am six years old and eat pickled herring with my father 's mother Miriam Leah , who has changed her name to Mary . |
| 3 | I remember dark streets , and walking hand in hand with my father . |
| 4 | Between about 1947 and 1951 , when the Ritz in Sheffield , Alabama was still open , my main encounters with the place — between the ages of four and eight — were on trips with my father across the river to pick up the final reports on the daily receipts on all four of the Rosenbaum theatres our family owned in Sheffield and Tuscumbia . |
| 5 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 6 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |
| 7 | ‘ I said I would gather together everything connected with my father — every photograph , every piece of clothing , his books , his certificates , his stamp collection — everything . |
| 8 | I could never see her thick black tuft of pubic hair without longing to go with my father into that dark Moravian pine forest , stretching all the way from the Carpathians , which surrounded our home . |
| 9 | Forget Lloyd George : Arnold Palmer played with my father . |
| 10 | I know from conversations with my father , and his close homosexual friends whom he would have confided in , that they are unfounded . ’ |
| 11 | I felt people were looking at me with my father in mind . |
| 12 | I fed it kindly with my Father 's Hay , |
| 13 | Moreover , now that I come to think of it , it is perhaps not so surprising that it should also have made a deep impression on Miss Kenton given certain aspects of her relationship with my father during her early days at Darlington Hall . |
| 14 | But I got caught , along with my father , and I was knocked unconscious . |
| 15 | With my father it was the other way round : I introduced him to angling . |
| 16 | There was talk of golf when I was a wee boy , and I went with my father to the local courses . |
| 17 | Heartened by the thought that all the rumblings within her were no more than spasms of ill-digested curry , she walked out from the Khyber fort that was her home , and with my father beside her , tapped her chilblains to the pipes of the Black Watch and admired the wild Pathans cleaning their rifles high on the hillside . |
| 18 | I was at the station with my father when the first trainload of children arrived . |
| 19 | To go shopping with my father and mother on Saturday evenings seemed quite an adventure , especially in the winter when , under the flickering gas lamps , Salisbury became a different city . |
| 20 | I almost feel as if I have gone on getting to know and understand her after she died , and have done my mourning as I go , whereas with my father the relationship was perfect and complete and ended with his death . ' |
| 21 | So as often as could be managed I went for trips with my father on the trams . |
| 22 | I sleep with my father and brother . |
| 23 | But it was the interesting ones , like Eva with her hard , taking edge , who ended up with everything , and in bed with my father . |
| 24 | But when Charlie was staying at Eva 's house he spent hours with my father , to whom he told the truth . |
| 25 | ‘ They stayed with my father right through the war . |
| 26 | It 's probably something to do with my father . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's the new assistant come to work with my father in the shop . ’ |
| 28 | He had been intrigued by my relationship with my father , and sympathetic to my rejection of the theatre . |
| 29 | Shortly after my fourth birthday we moved to a village in Somerset with my father 's employer , a retired lawyer , a bachelor , whose household was presided over by a sister-in-law whose husband had died at about the time of my birth . |
| 30 | He was at school with my father . |