"father" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His father had acquired them at great expense, but sold them to the British government for much less.
- By the time the present owner's father acquired it in the 1960's, the tall hat, some of the hair and the mustache were gone.
- The person to whom I addressed my scruples asked me where your father had acquired his property?
- His father was poor, but later acquired some wealth.
- My father acquires them, but they mean nothing to him.
- My father acquired the knowledge just before he died.
- But by the time he was 20 my father had acquired a British accent.
- So I slept in the room which had been mine as a very small child before my father had acquired the house next door.
- At the same time George's father was acquiring brownstone furnished room houses.
- My father has been acquiring them for years.
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