My father had protested long before by excluding the emperor's picture from our house.

Her father had protested mildly to Caroline over the preparations which she insisted upon making.

"But it protects us down the road," my father protested.

"This company is on the verge of bankruptcy," my father protested.

Take her if you like; her father can't protest now.

Before his father could protest, Neil had jumped out of the car.

"It kills us to have to wait," her father protested.

"My child is ill," the father protested in English.

When he returned to Tennessee with $250, his father never protested against baseball again.

"Of course you can,"his father protested, so immediately he hadn't time to sound impatient.