How to use "father" in a sentence

'Perhaps I can put things right with Jenny,' I thought, 'now that I've found her again.' But the more I thought about it, the more I finally understood that it was better for the boy to be with Jenny and her husband, and not to have an idiot for a father.

And her father said, 'I don't think she had any enemies

His father-in-law, M

Gillenormand and never saw his son or father-in-law again.

Marius grew up with his grandfather, and never knew his father

Gillenormand always told him that his father had been no good - that he was a poor soldier and a drunk who had abandoned him after his mother's death

His father, a brave officer who had fought for Napoleon and nearly died at the Battle of Waterloo, had really loved him and his mother very much

Without telling his grandfather, Marius tried to contact his father and finally discovered where he was living

His father had just died

Marius returned to Paris, but continued to visit his father's grave regularly, without telling his grandfather

He hated his grandfather for the unjust, cruel way he had treated his poor father

Life was hard for him, but he never forgot the promise he had made his father: that he would find Thenardier, the man who had saved his father's life, and help him in any way he could.

They seemed to be father and daughter.

He walked around slowly, stopping to look at the ducks on the lake, then casually approached the bench where Mile Lanoire and her father were sitting

She was talking quietly to her father, and Marius could hear the soft, exciting murmur of her voice

He returned the next morning and sat on a bench all day, pretending to read a book, not daring to go near the bench where the girl and her father were sitting

He avoided walking directly in front of the bench, partly from shyness, partly because he did not want to attract her father's attention

Sometimes he stood for half an hour in a place where her father could not see him, looking at her and enjoying the small, secret smiles she sent him.

'Who's coming?' Her father looked up.

'Excellent,' her father smiled, tearing a piece off his shirt and using it as a bandage

The daughter, taking her father's words seriously, began to scream with fear

'Tomorrow you'll have fur boots!' her father called out after her.

'That's the name of the man who saved my father's life at the Battle of Waterloo

But he would also have broken his promise to his father

'Forgive me, father,' he murmured, preparing to fire the gun.

'But you must promise me,' he said, 'that you'll never tell your father the address.'

All he had in the world was the five-franc piece he intended to give her father in prison

'My father said that we may have to leave,' she replied.

'What does her father do?'

He then turned slowly to the old man, bowed deeply and said, 'Four years ago you insulted my father

She was going with her father to England, and his grandfather had refused to give his permission for him to marry

'Well, I'm the girl's father

Looking round, Marius recognized Cosette's father

He thought about Enjolras and Eponine, and wondered why Cosette's father had been at the barricade

He noticed his grandfather's tenderness towards him, but he could not forget the old man's unfairness and cruelty to his father, who had died penniless and unloved

Having been a mayor, he knew how to solve an awkward problem: the question of Cosette's real family He told everybody that he was not her father, but her guardian

He was, without doubt, a bad man, but Marius had promised his father to find him and help him

It was the happiest night of Cosette's life, spoilt only by one thing: the fact that her guardian - whom she still thought of as her father - went home before the feast had started, saying that he felt ill

Marius hugged Valjean warmly, addressed him as 'father' and invited him to lunch, but Valjean shook his head and said, 'Monsieur, I have something to tell you.'

You'll always be my father and I'm not going to let you go.'

'You mustn't call me "father" any more,' he told her

'You don't need a father any more

She stopped calling him 'father' or asking him questions

She could not understand why her father, as she still thought of Valjean, had stopped visiting her

He had tried without success to find the man who had saved his father's lite at Waterloo, and now the man had come to him! He immediately asked the servant to show the man in.

Marius, meanwhile, was grateful for finally having the chance to help Thenardier, and therefore to keep the promise he had made to his father

If you hadn't saved my father's life at Waterloo, I'd report you to the police

You're Cosette's father and mine

And he thinks of all the times he watched his father hit his mother.

He remembers when he came here with his father to poach a few rabbits as a child

For the first time in many years Owen and Junior seem to be exactly what they are: father and son

Then maybe in a few years they can start to go for a pint like Owen and his father did.

I told him about my father, who had been a painter

I talked about my mother and her great love for my father

When my father had died very suddenly, my mother had lived only a few weeks after him.

And you would never know who his father was."

Your father is only suffering an identity crisis

She had never vented any of her black anger because, initially, she'd wanted to hide it from Danny; she hadn't wanted to turn him against his father

At last, he said, "What about the father?"

"The father will protest."

"Still, I've got to consider the father's wishes."

"If the father has a chance to protest," Elliot said, "we'll probably get involved in a knock-down-drag-out legal battle

"Before the father can get a restraining order from another judge," Kennebeck said.

"If there's no hitch, maybe the father won't ever find out about the exhumation."

Most of the story dealt with Death's attempts to stop the mother and father on their desperate night journey; they were assaulted by every form of the walking dead, every manner of living corpse and vampire and ghoul and zombie and ghost, but they triumphed

I suppose it's natural for him to reach out to me rather than to his father."

At times, he envied his father and his uncles

As he sat in the dimly lighted cabin of the fan-jet and watched the clouds racing below, Alexander wondered what his father and his uncles would say if they knew that his service to his country had often required him to issue kill orders

Yes, he was sure that his father and uncles would give him their blessings - if only he were permitted to tell them.

My father, Joseph, had a brother, my uncle Elias, who went to live in America when he was young

My brother, your father, will have all my money and my house after my death, and you will have it all when he dies

'After my uncle's death, my father moved into the house

'But one morning my father opened a letter to find five orange pips inside it

"And where has this letter come from?" my father said

'Three days later my poor father went to visit an old friend who lived some miles away

I thought it was murder, and I could not forget the five orange pips and the strange letters to my uncle and my father.

Those are the words that were in the letter to my father.'

Then he sent some pips from Scotland and arrived three days later to kill John's father

'Protect my boy from what? Don't you understand? I'm here so that Henri won't be the son of a woman who went to the guillotine for having murdered his father! Don't you understand that I would much prefer the guillotine to the living death of this asylum?'

I knew that Henri had caught the fly because it looked different from other flies, but I also knew that his father hated cruelty to animals and that there would be a fuss if he discovered our son had put a fly in a box or bottle.

'With father.'

It really is stupid - I go on the beach in my bathing dress, but now father won't allow Lawrence into the house

If father died, then I would be all right.'

There is Lettice Protheroe, I suppose, because she probably gets money after her father's death

Anyway, she went to see father and told him she was dying and wanted to see me so much

But afterwards I was frightened that the police might think she had killed father

Particularly when you have no mother or father.

It was in his 'I-am-old-enough-to-be-your-father' voice

She was married twice: once to my father, who was a poor man, and then to Mr Philip Fairlie, who was rich

He was chosen by her father just before he died

On my last day at Limmeridge House, I talked to Miss Fairlie, explaining the details of her father's will

Her father had been my good friend, and his daughter was like a daughter to me

'It was my father's dying wish that I marry Sir Percival

Laura's father (her brother) had been angry with her for marrying an Italian

Laura and I have no father or brother to protect us

I found the record of the marriage of Percival's father, Sir Felix Glyde, to Cecilia Elster in September 1803

I went to the house of the old parish clerk's son and asked if I could see his father's copy of the register for 1803

The copy had no record of Percival's father's marriage! I realised that the record in the original register must be a forgery, added in years afterwards

The truth was that Percival's father had never married Percival's mother

His mother was already married when his father - Sir F - met her

She was very like Laura, and Laura was very like her father

I thought of those famous words from the Bible: 'The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children.' The fatal similarity between two daughters of one father had caused all this suffering.

Her mother and father believed in education for girls

Today, Malala and her father, Ziauddin, work in many countries

Her father, Vicente, died in the 1980 burning of the Spanish Embassy

Her father had a small business, and they lived in a large house

Both her mother and her father believed in women's rights.

But Emmeline's mother and father had money

Her father did not want her to be a scientist because it was difficult for women, and he told her to study something different

Later, Nancy's father made a lot of money in business, and the children were able to get an education

Her parents worked on a farm, and her father was killed during World War Two

Her father worked for the government, but he was also an athlete

She asked her father what sport she could play

Her father talked about tennis.

My father wants me to get married and start a family

I think love and marriage are boring but I must obey my father

"I want to marry you and your father approves."

I like your father because he is honest

I have your father's permission to court you! I know that Don Diego wants to marry you, but I am superior in every way

He returns to his father's hacienda.

"Good afternoon, my son," says his father, Don Alejandro Vega

"Yes, father, you are right