But a friend of my father's offered me a job.

I got Ross through an old friend of my father.

"She was a close friend of my father's for many years."

He was a close friend of my father's, way back at college or something.

Mike is working for an old friend of his father.

An old friend of your father's and mine, you might say.

It was with a married man - a friend of my father.

He was fifteen years old and had been a friend of my father's for five.

"We went there almost every year to visit friends of my father's," he said.

Sitting on a chair in the emergency room was a friend of her father's, she said.