Example sentences of "father [verb] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since , your father has been a constant visitor to Drennan 's house . |
| 2 | In this conversation I also learned for the first time that my father had been a poor vicar . |
| 3 | Her father had been a tight-lipped rather unloving man who had apparently taken little interest in Doreen . |
| 4 | His father had been a prominent supporter of Edward II , and had been described by one chronicler as ‘ worse than Piers Gaveston ’ . |
| 5 | His own father had been a skilled mechanic ( a phrase which conveyed little to Clara ) and as he himself had managed to purchase by his own labours a three bedroomed semi-detached house in a pleasant suburban district , he might have been thought to have cause to feel fairly content with life . |
| 6 | He was always available , fair weather or foul , home or away , and his father had been a much-respected captain of our village team two or three decades ago . |
| 7 | Arthur 's father had been a famous comic called Willie Moe , and his mother , Queenie , was the butt in Willie 's routine . |
| 8 | Years and heredity within the Anglican Church ( his father had been a colonial bishop ) had so formed his manners and speech that it was sometimes thought so . |
| 9 | My father had been a great admirer of Kemal Ataturk — he fought in the Turkish army against the British in Gaza — and Ataturk 's picture hung in the living-room . |
| 10 | Where the father had been a great general , the son was rash and impetuous . |
| 11 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 12 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 13 | In this case , the man 's grandfather had been a well-known bone-setter for his gentle touch , but the father had been a bone-cracking bone-setter . |
| 14 | Her father had been a strict Baptist . |
| 15 | The service was no novelty to him for his father had been a High Anglican vicar in another part of London and Rupert had not lost his boyhood faith until his first year at Oxford — late really , he had thought , for a clergyman 's son . |