1.   She sat beside her dying father and wept.

2.   He was rushed to the airport in time to catch the sole plane that might enable him to reach his dying father.

3.   Andre Dubus explains that he realized, when he was flying to his dying father, that even those who flew and maintained the plane were giving him sacraments.

4.   Anna, who is being courted by a straitlaced government bureaucrat, is herself desperate for money to pay for the funeral of her dying father.

5.   As Hillary Rodham Clinton kept a vigil in Little Rock over her dying father early last month, Bill Clinton traveled to Vancouver to see Boris Yeltsin.

6.   A son tries to get to know his dying father, who hides behind a facade of jokes.

7.   Given a video camera, he drives his dying father nuts by recording him against his will.

8.   He persuades his dying father to leave Isabel a magnificent fortune.

9.   His dying father survived another camp, and found his son in America through Picasso.

10.   I saw true compassion in action when we brought my dying father home from Florida, where doctors had not even made an attempt to reduce his acute distress.