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Example sentences for "father went"

  • Sometimes on cold days we walked rather than rode to the timber, where my father went to chop wood while Jo and I corded it.

  • It was the custom when my father went to the nearest post-office to bring back with him the mail of the entire neighborhood, and it was my business to deliver the letters and papers at the different houses.

  • There again from the middle beam in the front parlour hangs my grandfather's key, covered with cobwebs as thickly as on the day when my father went forth to seek the treasure.

  • This packet, my father went on to say, contained much mysterious matter, which would keep until he and his dear wife met.

  • My father went to the opening dinner of the Garrick Club.

  • As soon as the news came my father went off to see what he could do for Cecilia, poor thing, and to bring her here, if she can be persuaded to leave Baker Street.

  • Father went to the village and bought him a new wagon.

  • Father went to Dearbornville and mortgaged his lot to Mrs. Phlihaven, a widow woman, for one hundred dollars, said to be at seven per cent.

  • Father went to the village and I with him.

  • Father went into a log house on the north side of the Chicago road and asked them if they could keep us all night.

  • So my father went on trying to gather a cargo for England; but it was a slow business, as the burnt and plundered folk of the great town had naught for us, and others sold to them.

  • Now when my father went to say farewell to us, nowhere could be found my brother Withelm.

  • Only my father went in there at any time, unless he gave the key to one of us, for there he kept his valuables and the arms.

  • My father went to the after cabin now, and though the poor children were bruised with the heavy rolling of the ship as she came into the wind, they were all well save Havelok, and he had fallen asleep in my mother's arms at last.

  • Having given orders to the steward to get breakfast ready, with as much calmness as if we were still running on under easy sail in an open sea, my father went on deck.

  • Several times my father went down to the edge of the water to ascertain how high it had risen, leaving Burton to watch, and report to him should it rise above a certain point.

  • My father went below, and returned conducting my mother and sister.

  • How my father went on, in my opinion, deserves a chapter to itself.

  • My mother went down, and my father went on, reading the section as follows, .

  • He hardly knew General Lee, and had spoken to him only a few times, but my father went to see him quite often, would sit by him, talk to him, and seemed much interested in his getting well.

  • When the war began and my father went to war, my mother left Helena and came here.

  • Father went to share cropping on the Red River Bottom on the Chickaninny Farm.

  • My father went to war on one side but he didn't stay very long.

  • Amongst other places, my father went to Huddersfield to speak on the Irish question.

  • At Wigan, in October 1860, my father went to deliver two lectures in the Commercial Hall.

  • My father went up north at the right moment, for on Saturday, 27th October, this Mr D.

  • When our home was broken up in May 1870, and my father went to live by himself in those two little rooms in Turner Street, he was very downcast and lonely.

  • With his elder brother, John Hindes (afterwards Rector of Earl Soham), my father went to school at Norwich under Valpy.

  • My father went to the war from Mer Rouge, Louisiana.

  • She wanted to know how old I was so my father went to Miss Caroline and she say I 'bout twenty now.

  • Right after the War "Right after the War, my father went to farming--renting land.

  • Worked at my cap, while my father went on with Webster's speech.

  • My father went to see Miss Clifton, at the Bowery theatre.

  • My father went to the Park theatre, to see a man of the name of Hacket give an American entertainment after Matthews's at-home fashion.

  • When Mikolai recovered my father went to reproach him.

  • My father went immediately to Mikolai,-- "What is the matter with thee, Mikolai?

  • On the eve of the day when she was to pass the night at Ustrytsi, my father went to the next town to buy horses, and took Kazio to try them.

  • My father went on, taking no heed of my mother's expostulation.

  • My father went up to her; but she only stared at him with big blank black eyes, and yet such a lost look on her young, handsome, yet gaunt face, as almost convinced him she was the mother of the child.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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