On that occasion, too, my father was sleeping when I entered.

Her father was sleeping, Eve said, but maybe they could call him next week and he'd want to speak to them.

Long they talked as the night drew on and her father slept.

Your father hasn't slept a whole night since it arrived.

Without a word of explanation, he rushed to the place where his father was sleeping.

But here his father slept on a city park bench.

In the cell, father and son slept together on a wooden board.

While fathers probably don't sleep so well either, mothers are perhaps likely to suffer more.

Your father hardly slept at all last night because his back was hurting so much.

My father slept in that chair every night of them.