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Example sentences for "father told"

  • My father told me to get back Monday and no mistake about it.

  • Father told me that, when he was a boy, the mill stream at the village got so low one fall that they could not grind wheat or corn there.

  • Because my father told me she had, and my father did not lie.

  • My father told me the whole story before he died, and he also told me that he had written you several times, but that his letters had been ignored.

  • My father told me so, during his last illness.

  • A few days after this my father told me he wished to take me to the theater with him to try whether my voice was of sufficient strength to fill the building; so thither I went.

  • Long before typhoid fever was recognised as distinct, my father told me that two utterly distinct kinds of illness were confounded under the name of typhus fever.

  • In another case my father told a lady that her husband would certainly die.

  • My father told me the story many years after the event, and I asked him how he distinguished the true from the false self-accusations; and it was very characteristic of my father that he said he could not explain how it was.

  • She coloured a little at the compliment, and said, lightly: "Father told me once that Irishmen were great hands at compliments.

  • Father told me that your father was his greatest friend, and just before he died he told me that he had privately sent over all his own money to a bank at Cork, and ordered it to be put in your father's name.

  • My father told me that he gathered from his cousin's letters that he and his wife did not get on very well together.

  • Father told me to do this, but our adventure at the Citadel made this out of the question.

  • Father told me to be sure and have a ride in a 'caleche,' as he called it.

  • Father told me that his shoepacks were tight as a drum and that he stepped right out of the canoe into the water whenever he wanted to.

  • My father told me subsequently that we slept at an hotel those two nights intervening.

  • My father told me that that superstition existed on Earth in his time, too.

  • My father told me that on Earth it is not mortal.

  • My father told me that in some Earth tongue that name meant 'love'.

  • Father told me that by thus passing through the fire he had learned not to fix his eyes on the things of this world, but to find his happiness in God.

  • I don't know how to explain it very well, of course; but I did understand it fairly well when my father told me and showed me some of the precious passages in the Book that helped me to understand.

  • My father told me so, and God Himself tells me so, for so it is written down in the Bible itself.

  • My father told me when I was a little boy it was because they sheltered and warmed the Star-girl, who was the sister of the Thunder-bird.

  • My father told me that you can gather all the ravens for twenty miles by leaving a carcass so they can see it and signal each other.

  • My father told me a fighting muskrat's heart is great medicine; for he seeks peace while it is possible, then he turns and fights without fear.

  • That's what my father told me, and he was a reasonable man, though there's folks nowadays know what happened afore they were born better nor they know their own business.

  • Pablo: "My father told me that Florentina had given shelter to some poor creature.

  • Nela, darling of my heart, do you know what my father told me?

  • Last night my father told me that after having seen you I ought never to want to see another woman.

  • Father told me particularly about his injunctions to Opstorius, and Pertinax himself reminded me about Almo after Father's death.

  • Father told me that Grandfather and he were both in half a mind to have it suppressed as the Bacchanals were suppressed.

  • Father told me that the most wearing feature of his being Emperor was his recurring escapes from assassination.

  • Father told me later it made them think of home and their own little ones, for most of them had families in their far away homes.

  • Father told me many times that all went home at sunset much pleased with their day of pleasure and sport.

  • Father told us afterward how afraid the two older brothers were, thinking it was whales coming after us, as they had heard about whales in the ocean.

  • I knew nothing of what he said, but my father told me when I was old enough to understand.

  • And my father told me that one time he was stopping with my uncle, up there near Mrs. Quaid's, in a house that's pulled down since.

  • And my father told me that sometimes after he had made the hay up into cocks, and on a day without a breath of wind, they'd find it all in the next field lying in wisps.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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