Example sentences of "father [vb past] him [art] [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 From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later .
3 A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died in hospital after being hit by a car while his father taught him the Green Cross Code .
4 The last time he came , they had a row and the father called him a bloody upstart .
5 Last year his father gave him a new car — a very fast car .
6 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 .
7 His father gave him a white convertible Mercedes 300 for his eighteenth birthday .
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