While her friends' parents cannot relate to their athletic interests, she said, her father can.
Raymond is then forced to stay at home to take care of her as his father cannot.
We looked at each other, as father and son can, needing no words.
We embraced as only a father and a son can.
"It's not in my power to stop these persecutions, but your father can."
"But you can't, anymore than your father or I can."
Because it is so expensive that my father cannot, in justice to his other children, support me through a four years' course.
If the girl is unmarried, the father can, of course, always do with her as he pleases.
'But I had better know what is going on, as far as any father can,' he thought.