Example sentences of "father had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father had become a Spiritualist almost by accident . |
| 2 | She came of a family whose heads felt cold in the night ( their father had worn a nightcap ) and now she rose to a sitting position looking , in the gloom , like some eastern potentate , her beautiful nose and high forehead all surmounted by what seemed to be a turban but was actually some sort of woolly garment skilfully disposed about her head . |
| 3 | By the time that Colt 's father had warmed a broth to take upstairs with the scrambled egg and toast that he would himself eat for his supper , the letter to his son would have been delivered to the Colonel 's department . |
| 4 | From when I was very young , my father had nurtured a love of art in me ; I shared a great deal with him ( he took me nearly every Sunday to the Louvre ) and was close to him until his death . |
| 5 | His heir was fined £20,000 , even though his father had obtained a pardon from James I. The Earl of Westmorland was fined £19,000 , and Sir Christopher Hatton £12,000 ; Sir Giles Mompesson was adjudged to pay a total of £3,300 for felling timber even though he produced an Exchequer warrant . |
| 6 | Their father had wanted a son — he had got one eventually , their young brother , Jacob ; their mother had wanted aristocrats — attractive , shapely , superior ladies , royalty without crowns . |
| 7 | But he was also at home in Nepal , where he and his father had built a mountain lodge . |
| 8 | Perhaps if my father had built a formica cocktail bar in the corner of our lounge my mother would still be living with us . |
| 9 | The girls , Diana and Mary Rivers , had to work as governesses , as their father had lost a lot of money in business . |
| 10 | Instead of being educated at Christ 's Hospital in London , where his father had secured a nomination for him , he was admitted to the Asylum for deaf and dumb children in the Old Kent Road , London . |
| 11 | OK , her relationship with her father had taken a dip since her mother 's death , but she still knew the man better than almost anyone else on earth . |
| 12 | Fred 's father had owned a pub near a music hall where Arthur 's father had often played , and before their sons were even born the men had sometimes had Saturday-night booze-ups together . |
| 13 | Her father had had a link with Italy . |
| 14 | His father had installed a Spiel petroleum engine to drive some of the machinery in his workshops , and Herbert was inspired to work on the problem of developing an internal-combustion engine that would run on heavier ( and safer ) grades of fuel oil . |
| 15 | His father had bought a place in Kildare before the Great War . |
| 16 | I wish my father had left a description of his encounter with Balcha but I can find none in his letters or despatches . |
| 17 | ‘ There are times , ’ he said bleakly , ‘ when I wish your father had sired a son . |
| 18 | My father had purchased a box of Maltesers , the chocolates with the less fattening centre , to sustain him through this no holds barred erotic horror film . |
| 19 | There was plenty of salad stuff at least , her father had brought a lot with him . |