Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] father [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | was born in Suffolk but his family soon moved to Horncastle , Lincolnshire , where his father ran the local maltings under . |
| 2 | Yet if Elizabeth relied more heavily than her predecessors on direct taxation to carry her through the years of peace , she showed a greater reluctance than her father to squeeze the country heavily in times of war . |
| 3 | The horse received the odd joke mention from the commentator , until my father smashed the radio , finished the whisky , and suffered a near-fatal nosebleed . |
| 4 | If her father played the tape of her conversation , as inevitably he would , then , whatever the outcome , their relationship would have been dealt an overwhelming blow , one , she was sure , that could never be overcome . |
| 5 | Taken prisoner with his brother-in-law at the fall of Sherborne Castle ( 1645 ) , he spent nearly three years in the Tower with Wortley and other leading Cavaliers until his father paid the maximum delinquency fine of £10,000 . |
| 6 | They were silent on the way back , walking to cool the horses ; if his father saw the state they were in he would be angry . |
| 7 | We 've asked the people for half past three , they 'll all be here by four , so we need n't sit down to the tea until half past five , and we would n't have got to the cake until your father has the business closed , and is back here . ’ |
| 8 | My mother threw insults and then the crockery , while my father ignored the insults , caught the crockery , and produced endless cups of tea when they eventually decided to make up . |
| 9 | But whereas her father earned the respect of his people by staying in London throughout the Blitz , the Queen has few positive personal achievements to show for her four decades on the throne . |
| 10 | The girls all became Ladies , Charles , then aged eleven , was made a Viscount while their father became the 8th Earl and inherited Althorp . |
| 11 | This year 's PFAS Child of Valour award went to Wendy Windsmoor , aged nine , who stood for no less that 17 minutes , reserving a vacant meter spot in Oxford while her father negotiated the one-way system . |
| 12 | When they heard the car they went carefully downstairs , and her mother settled her in while her father held the door and Alan put her bag in the boot . |
| 13 | He normally hung about the house all day and disappeared before his father brought the sheep back from pasture so as to avoid milking time . |
| 14 | Shortly after his father died the new Earl said how regrettable it was that he had died alone . |
| 15 | I knew what she would suffer when my father heard the truth . |
| 16 | There I was chucking copies of a certain rival mag into the fire when my father entered the room brandishing the latest copy of ZZAP ! |
| 17 | It was natural for such a leading Talmudic authority as her father to earn the respect and friendship of one such as Lyon Cohen , the prestigious future president of the synagogue and nephew of the Chief Rabbi ; he had corresponded with Lyon prior to settling in Montreal . |
| 18 | She speaks with a London accent , though her father knows the Royal Family . |
| 19 | His angry yells sounded from the corridor as their father closed the door . |
| 20 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 21 | When her father saw the evidence of this sin he condemned her to death . |
| 22 | When his father raised the question of who should inherit the estate after him , and whether he should choose ‘ heirs general ’ , that is to say , include females in the vexed question — in an earlier generation , four sisters had been passed over in favour of a Boswell nephew — Boswell consulted Johnson repeatedly , before the matter was resolved to Boswell 's general satisfaction . |
| 23 | Andrew , 13 , was just three years old when his father suffered the first of a series of strokes . |