Example sentences of "[pos pn] father [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All his life he had relied on Luke and his father to support him in his bullying and to bolster his courage . |
| 2 | Higgins then persuaded his father to allow him to ‘ walk the wards ’ at the London hospitals , and he became a medical student at St. Bartholomew 's Hospital from 1836 to 1838 ( the great Sir James Paget was a fellow-student there ) . |
| 3 | At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ This story of Terry 's about going after your father to ask him for a loan to buy a small-holding — what do you make of that ? ’ |
| 5 | He told her : ‘ Whatever Howard Smith 's treatment of you — and I accept that it was evil and gross — you embarked on this conspiracy with your father to murder him with remarkable deliberation and involvement in the arrangements for his killing . ’ |