Example sentences of "mother have [been] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reverse can also be true ; where a mother has been a haphazard housekeeper her daughter may either exercise rigid control or be totally at sea in the house . |
| 2 | Her mother had been a famous courtesan , doted on by all Cairo but in particular by Nuri , who , though a mature man , had taken the reckless step of proposing that she become his wife and a member of his harem . |
| 3 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |
| 4 | Since her mother had been a jolly lady , her missing father must have been a dour Dane indeed if inheritance had anything to do with it . |
| 5 | And here was Helen , a forgotten Helen with anxious chubby adolescent face , wearing a crumpled cotton dress and tilted sideways — her mother had been a careless photographer . |
| 6 | His mother had been a pragmatic woman , always making the best of the most difficult situations , earning a livelihood as a needlewoman to help her sons when young and later during John 's early theatrical ventures . |
| 7 | He knew that her mother had been a well-known journalist on the Washington Gazette before her marriage to Jared Tunstall , Sally-Anne 's father and a Yankee millionaire , who as the result of his fame as one of America 's so-called robber barons , and his friendship with King Edward VII and his circle , was nothing if not notorious . |