John could not wait to pay back the rest of the money that Judge Tone said his father had borrowed.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

She nodded her head as she touched and smelled the flowers that her father had been so careful to avoid.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

My mother was a teacher. My father had planned to become a big business man, but he became a social worker instead.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

His father had left. His mother did not earn much money, so Jackie Robinson learned to make his own way in life.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

It said that his father had paid the company the five thousand dollars that Paul had stolen.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

At a speaking event when he was already in his nineties, he explained that his father had taught him a few things about success.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

He shot himself to death in nineteen sixty-one, just as his father had years earlier.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Susan's father had worked many years for other candy companies before starting this one.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

She was from an old southern family. Her father had been a judge.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

His father worked for the railroad. William's great-grandfather had built it.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

His father had been the light house man before him.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

John paid the Judge the 150 dollars that he had borrowed to buy traps and guns, then he slowly counted it into the Judge's hands, the money that his father had borrowed.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

The father had reported his concerns about his son's extreme religious views to the U.S.embassy in Abuja.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

At a public speaking event, when he was already in his 90s, Wooden explained his father had taught him a few things about success.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

His father had expressed his shock and regret over his son's actions,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The epidemic might have been even worse had it not been for the father of the actress Glenn Close.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

For the wise man who had led the Union through four years of bloody civil war Father Abraham -- was dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Best of all, I loved writing about the game on an old typewriter I had borrowed from someone in my father's office.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Eight more years passed, Calvin,the father and Everett, the son still had nothing to say to each other.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

She was a real lady my mother, she had come to teach in the island school and fell in love with my father.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

But when she was a girl, she had to persuade her father to let her study science.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

One was Jim's gold time piece, the watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's.

VOA: special.2010.12.25