11.   Her adoptive father, Giulio Strozzi, was a poet whose works were set by Monteverdi and Cavalli, and Cavalli was her principal composition teacher.

12.   His adoptive father never told him the truth about their relationship, and his mother treated him as an afterthought.

13.   Jeannette never knew her biological father, and now she had lost her adoptive father.

14.   Just as success has a hundred fathers, successful young businessmen seem to have no shortage of adoptive fathers.

15.   Patterson is no longer trained by his adoptive father, former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson,after signing with new manager Marc Roberts.

16.   Robby, raised by his slick and ruthless adoptive father, has been taught to play polo and to wear tailored suits and slicked-back hair.

17.   Robert, who took after their adoptive father, is only interested in money.

18.   She draws on all her talents to track down a serial killer whose victims include her adoptive father.

19.   She knows sign language and is training her puppy, Pooja, in Arabic, one of five languages that her adoptive father speaks.

20.   She invariably refers to the man whom her mother later married, her adoptive father, merely as Turkle.