Example sentences of "mother [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was no picture of his mother or his murdered brother Stefan .
2 In a churchyard at Bilston in Staffordshire stands a memorial to a mother and her two infant children , who all died within a period of three weeks in the winter of 1847 ; they are described as ‘ all victims to the neglect of sanitary regulations specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town . ’
3 After the separation the children had lived with the mother and her new man friend .
4 Surrounded by a sea of mud , a mother and her handicapped son refuse to move .
5 When her mother and her beloved sister Janie died in 1886 , Mary 's last links with home were broken : ‘ Heaven is now nearer to me than Britain , ’ she wrote .
6 Eventually , I recover , and come to enjoy my mother and my old school friends , and the easy , sunny inertia of L.A. I swim every day and I love the blue sparkle of the pool , the glare of the sun and the sky on the water , and myself cleansed and pristine in the chlorinated wet of my morning routine , pre-smog , post-dope ; boys with blond moustaches saying , ‘ Have a good one ’ ; my baby blue Rent-a-car .
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