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Example sentences for "father would"

  • Father would read to us from the big family Bible and explain to us as he read.

  • Very soon Bob began not to notice his master very much, but would try to go fast to meet father when he came into the house, and when he could not get up father would go to him, talk and rub him.

  • Father would go over to grandpa and say, "Now don't cry any more, all that is past.

  • I had come to a point where I wanted to be quiet, to be alone, to think, and I knew my father would be going away.

  • It was late indeed when we lay down to rest, and the night I spent between waking and dreaming of the wonderland beyond the mountains, hoping against hope that my father would go.

  • My father would at times be quite savage in his sentiments.

  • My father would relate to us some trifling story, some incident noticed during the day that had seemed to him amusing.

  • If she did not meet him at a certain hour on a certain night my father would be dead in the morning.

  • Guess it can't be long now," my father would say.

  • I told him that I doubted whether my father would agree to his proposal, for several reasons.

  • I was much obliged to him for the interesting information he had given me, and I told him that should he ever come our way, I was sure that my father would be happy to see him at our house.

  • Father would no more think of shaking hands with a Whig (if he knew it) than he would eat roast beef on Good Friday.

  • If I did, Father would look up over his cards with a black brow and say "Silence!

  • I know my father would be in a sad way if he knew it.

  • Father would care a great deal; and if I understood it, I dare say I might.

  • I mentioned to Janet that I feared my father would be returning.

  • Then I remembered Dipwell, and sure that my father would be there, though he had not written of it, I proposed to ride over.

  • This telescope took a long time to make, and night after night through many a weary month, when station duty was done, father would work at it for hours together in his home-made work-shop.

  • My father would be glad if he could help you in any way.

  • But we cannot do that; my father would dislike it; and as we must have furniture for our new house, we might as well have it now.

  • You know if I am sure my father would prefer a thing, I must do it.

  • That she is not a woman of science, my father would say--is her misfortune--but she might ask a question.

  • My mother and my uncle Toby expected my father would be the death of Obadiah--and that there never would be an end of the disaster.

  • I could not have believed my father would'---- He hesitated to finish the sentence.

  • Said I not that my father would be soon on his way to our assistance?

  • If my father would allow me to take out my yacht, we might make a dash in the night, you know, eh?

  • This excitement lasted a long time and it did seem psychologically certain that in any disembodied condition my father would be likely to recall some important parts or all of this well learned lesson.

  • We met and I said: "Miss Dodan, it is a treacherous confession, but I wish you were going back with us, or that my father would stay a little longer here.

  • In the light of these larger analogies," my father would continue, "why are we not further permitted to conclude that there is a more intimate and minute correlation.

  • That I'm doing what my father would do if he were alive?

  • That I'm doing what my father would ask me to do if he could speak from his grave out yonder?

  • Not that I don't think something could be done if father would let me have a hand; but he won't.

  • Liverpool without my mother would be a dismal trial for him to face; Lisbon without my father would be tenfold an exile for her.

  • My father would listen to it all, and both believe it and not believe it.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "father would" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another nation; difficult task; father answered; father came; father dear; father died; father had; father left; father looked; father says; father took; father used; father was; father would; father wrote; fathers have; hundred miles; independent life; miles from; must pray; parcels post; remote from; sound sleep; the fat; three cards; what news