1.   He never knew his father, his uncles were on the fringes of crooked activity and his drunken step-father sold second-hand cars.

2.   My parents divorced when I was six, and I hardly knew my father.

3.   A misbegotten child who never knew his father.

4.   Whaaaaaat!

5.   He knew my father, I think.

6.   In a way, Aunt Alicia knew her father better than her mother ever had.

7.   I never knew my father, or indeed who he was.

8.   Ana did not know her father, only that he was a Central American.

9.   Anne Moloney Black of Washington, D.C., never knew her father, nor did he ever know her.

10.   And we know the father of a newborn who can verify that.