Example sentences of "[pos pn] father [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 2 | Once when Hugh Dalton , the local MP and a Cabinet Minister , was about to open a factory by snipping the red tape with a pair of ornamental scissors , my father stepped out of the crowd , took the scissors and demanded a house as a disabled ex-serviceman . |
| 3 | So my father went over on the Monday evening and after such a a young man paid such interest in the garden and paying so much compliments , Well you ca n't go home without coming in for a cup of tea . |
| 4 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 5 | My father went off to the park . |
| 6 | ‘ My father came back with the cross ; his friend , Major Hope , paid for my mother 's treatment . |
| 7 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 8 | But I can remember my father coming back from the death bed and saying the old man was babbling about a grandson . |
| 9 | Richard and John barred any further advance by holding Châteauroux long enough to permit their father to come up with the main Angevin army and force Philip to raise the siege . |
| 10 | Still her father stared out of the window . |
| 11 | Her father came in through the back door . |
| 12 | Her father came out of the kitchen . |
| 13 | Her father looked up from the newspaper and nodded . |
| 14 | What prompted her father to go out with the hand-cart she did n't know , because underneath it all he was a proud man . |
| 15 | Her father squinted down at the page but she banged the book shut and slid it back on the shelf . |
| 16 | Her father lay back in the big squashy leather chair and closed his eyes for a moment , before opening them again and fixing them firmly on his daughter . |
| 17 | She met her father coming out of the surgery . |
| 18 | But characteristically she got her way about going to art school , Beaton persuading her to get her father to come up to the academy and talk about the future of his precocious daughter . |
| 19 | In the morning her father arrived up in the nursery . |
| 20 | A fortnight after he arrived at Cuddesdon his father set out in the car from Cambridge to Stamford . |
| 21 | Eventually his father moved on to the pitch and , seizing his son by the right ear , dragged him back into a fielding position . |
| 22 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |