Father in sentence

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My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.

But he was also in Oxford in the '50s, and yet growing up as a child in Nigeria, my father used to say to me, "You must never eat or drink in a Yoruba person's house because they will poison you."

It makes sense now when I think about it, because if you'd known my father, you would've wanted to poison him too.

This Australian-Indian girl, she came out and started to dance on her front lawn, and her father peered out the window to see what all the noise and commotion was about, and he soon joined her.

And one day I go to the airport to meet my father, and as I walk up this grassy slope from the car park to the terminal building, I'm stopped by two soldiers wielding AK-47 assault weapons.

A father came out of his house to tell his teenage son and his five friends that it was time for them to stop horsing around on the front lawn and on the sidewalk, to get home, finish their schoolwork, and prepare themselves for bed.

That's the shooter I saw that killed the father."

This is looking down to the east, where the shooting vehicle sped off, and this is the lighting directly behind the father and the teenagers.

(Hospital noises) When I was visiting my terminally ill father in a hospital, I was asking myself, how does anybody get well in a place that sounds like this? Hospital sound is getting worse all the time.

But, having had a father with heart disease, and realizing that what our family could afford was not what he should have gotten, and having a good friend step in to help, I really believe that all people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.

He was actually living in the Kibera slums when his father called him and told him about Artemisia and the value-add potential.

I remember quite vividly my father telling me that when everyone in the neighborhood will have a TV set, then we'll buy a normal F.M. radio.

And that's me, I was going to say holding my first abacus, but actually holding what my father would consider an ample substitute to an iPad.

Well, I remember in third grade, I had this moment where my father, who never takes off from work, he's a classical blue collar, a working-class immigrant person, going to school to see his son, how he's doing, and the teacher said to him, he said, "You know, John is good at math and art."

That computer is a computer that I learned about going to MIT, my father's dream.

So my father might not understand what it is that I do for a living.

My father moved to Germany, studied there and married, and as a result, I now have this half-German brain, with all the analytical thinking and that slightly dorky demeanor that come with that.

There was a father and a son who sat in that seat over there.

The father lives.

The father will probably kick himself for years to come that he didn't take that seat instead of his kid.

So little Billy goes to school, and he sits down and the teacher says, "What does your father do?"

And little Billy says, "My father plays the piano in an opium den."

And the father says, "I'm very sorry.

But how can I tell an eight-year-old boy that his father is a politician?" (Laughter) Now, as a politician myself, standing in front of you, or indeed, meeting any stranger anywhere in the world, when I eventually reveal the nature of my profession, they look at me as though I'm somewhere between a snake, a monkey and an iguana, and through all of this, I feel, strongly, that something is going wrong.

I didn't say goodbye to anybody, not my mother, my father, my sisters, my brothers, my aunts, my uncles, my cousins, my grandparents, nobody.

I'm just saying that you know when your birthday is by virtue of the fact that somebody tells you when your birthday is, a mother, a father, a sister, a brother, an aunt, an uncle, a cousin, a grandparent.

It was usually too hot, too stuffy or just too smelly, and my father would not let us use the air conditioner.

My brothers and I dug in, and that's when my father came home.

Later, I understood why my father got so upset.

Those sweets were a bribe from a contractor who was trying to get my father to award him a government contract.

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