Example sentences of "[that] [pos pn] father [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's just say that my father talks a lot about queers and why they should be flung into prison and the key thrown away . ’ |
| 2 | I remember being glad that my father had a job which did not need him to climb ladders . |
| 3 | At any rate she cut him short : ‘ Are you saying that my father had a shameful secret of some sort ? ’ |
| 4 | When you find out why Francis was killed you 'll also find that my father had a hand in it . ’ |
| 5 | They demanded angrily that my father turn the car immediately so that the villages could be visited ‘ in the correct order ’ . |
| 6 | Once , after a particularly sharp contraction , she had a sudden wish to unburden herself to her mother , to tell her that her grandchild had nothing to do with John Carrow , but that its father bore a striking resemblance to Tom Tremayne . |
| 7 | She added that her father kept a lot of guns in the house . |
| 8 | Mary did n't get hit , but she is adamant that her father threw the tray of cups and saucers to the floor and they did n't just fall . |
| 9 | She 's convinced that her father knows a great deal about her uncle and his businesses , but Dad refuses to discuss any aspect of the matter . ’ |
| 10 | He recalled what he knew about them , that their father earned a precarious living as a painter whose innocuous , prettified watercolours were sold in cafés and tourist shops along the coast and that their mother had been desperately ill with cancer . |
| 11 | He told her that , like Liza , he was an only child , that his father owned a garage , that he had already started to follow in his footsteps and hoped to continue in the motor trade as soon as the war was over . |
| 12 | The laibon says that his father saw the sense in it . |
| 13 | He may have thought that his father spoke the truth in October 1922 , ‘ We are all British , not American citizens . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Is it possible that your father had a woman visitor ? |