Example sentences of "her father [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desk , Maureen said , was always kept locked and her father carried the only keys . |
| 2 | Molly wondered how far the language tapes borrowed from the Fulham Public Library had allowed her father to penetrate the political opinions of a Tuscan cleric . |
| 3 | The long and the short of it is , her father owns the two shops — I suppose they 're joined at the back — and she was standing in for her father . |
| 4 | Her father had been an equerry to the Queen and to King George VI before that ; and before her grandfather died in 1975 and her father became the Eighth Earl Spencer and moved to Althorp , the family had lived in a house on the Sandringham Estate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She speaks with a London accent , though her father knows the Royal Family . |