Example sentences of "father [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The father found him a ready substitute for his own dead infant son , Philip , and often called the young writer ‘ Phil ’ . |
| 2 | The last time he came , they had a row and the father called him a bloody upstart . |
| 3 | Even his own father thought it a big weakness . |
| 4 | Last year his father gave him a new car — a very fast car . |
| 5 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 6 | His father gave him a white convertible Mercedes 300 for his eighteenth birthday . |
| 7 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 8 | They fell much in love , and her father gave her a fine dowry of fat lake-cattle and his blessing for a happy marriage , with the proviso that the groom never raise his hand to the water-fairy . |
| 9 | Her father gave her a smart blue dress , her mother an equally smart green dress . |
| 10 | Once more her father gave her a scathing look . |