Example sentences of "[Wh det] father [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She was a business woman six days a week and had two children — my sister and me — so she really had to organise her life , ’ says Sue , whose father was a dairy farmer . |
| 2 | Some of the clocks and mechanical toys that delighted Josephine Bowes , whose father was a clock-maker , can be found on the first floor . |
| 3 | Deviating from the normal pattern is the father of decathlete Fidelius Obukw , a Nigerian , whose father was a barrister . |
| 4 | They would be from Canada , from her sister Louise who would suggest that she might put up various old acquaintances passing through London , or find a suitable family for a darling Austrian boy , not so very much older than Martha , whose father was a kind of Count , but was also in the import-export business , or try to recall a splendid person , the friend of a friend of hers who had had a very , very sad story . |
| 5 | By then he was married to Ethel Midgley , whose father was a cobbler . |
| 6 | But her outlook was subtly different , say from that of Edward Heath , whose father was a carpenter in a small town in Kent and who , like Mrs Thatcher , went to a local grammar school rather than the private boarding schools favoured by most Tory leaders . |
| 7 | ‘ Poor Gloria , ’ she said , but secretly delighted ; for there had been a tinge of envy , and she had missed her chum , always out with Tom , tall and crisply blond , blue-eyed , and whose father was a lawyer . |
| 8 | I broke no more beds and when Humphreys , whose father was a market gardener , asked me what my father did , I said he was a football manager . |
| 9 | , Karl ( 1902–1966 ) , founder of the Camphill Movement , was born 25 September 1902 in Vienna , the only child of Aron Ber ( Adolf ) König , shoe-shop owner , of Vienna , and his wife Bertha Fischer , whose father was a dressmaker in Iglau , Austria . |
| 10 | In this respect Lord Marney is even worse than his far more newly arrived neighbour , Lord Mowbray , whose father was a waiter and whose Gothic castle has been recently built . |
| 11 | When he went up to Cambridge he met another American who 'd been brought up in England , whose father was a journalist in the London bureau of the Washington Post , and he 'd had a thing about graveyards , too . |
| 12 | The one whose mother owned jellied-eel stalls and whose father was a boxer ? |