Example sentences of "[adv] to her mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it stood , it consisted of a multi-volume jumble of vers libre , written over many years , some in the form of letters , especially to her mother — ‘ if I sent her a letter she sent me some money — so I kept on writing ’ — listing the men she 'd known . |
| 2 | After a bit she got up again and crept down to her mother 's room . |
| 3 | Marie Marie was going down to her mother 's she was running as usual , she dashed up to our back door and said , is Doug around ? |
| 4 | Picking up her skirts , she hurried out and along to her mother 's room . |
| 5 | Kate answered it and went back in to her mother . |
| 6 | Emmie was only a baby , a wandering-eyed little animal , belonging entirely to her mother . |
| 7 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 8 | Picking up the child , who was breathing in gulps like an oarsman at the end of a race , Thomas bent down to save her sculptures and carried her through to her mother . |
| 9 | She had planned to get over to her mother 's by the afternoon , but the day had been so rare that neither of them could bear to finish it . |
| 10 | Then , as she climbed into the back seat , she added loyally to her mother , ‘ But it does n't have nice blue seats like ours does ! ’ |
| 11 | panting as she fought against the fact of death , panting as she integrated shock , panting as she realized a need to re-enter Rose 's body , to deny her own life , to dissolve back into the embryo past , the womb , to disappear , to hand herself over once more to her mother , to die too , anything to stay with her , anything but this , anything but individuality , anything but aloneness , anything but a self without a mother , anything but Rose 's death . |
| 12 | Poor Constance goes to a girls ’ school , comes home to her mother and visits a middle-aged woman about twice a week . |
| 13 | In Eliza 's fourth letter home to her mother ( the third was lost ) in which she again expresses her yearning for the children , she also describes her developing attachment to the Franklins , and her husband 's first significant expedition under their auspices : |
| 14 | Maria moved at once to her mother . |
| 15 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 16 | Her courage flooded back ; but not sufficiently for her to be ready to talk directly to her mother . |
| 17 | The girl more than lived up to her mother 's recommendation of being ‘ good with the little ones ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ She says she looked up to her mother , her father was her own flesh and blood , they understood each other , they were allies . |
| 19 | Then Tess went up to her mother , put her head on Joan 's shoulder , and told her the whole story . |
| 20 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 21 | But when she turned back to her mother again , his face resumed its worried , searching frown of concentration , his ear attuned below the level of conversation to the pain and weariness in her voice . |
| 22 | She was brought back to her mother 's voice , as though enticing her , yet with a slight sneer in it now , saying , ‘ It would give you an opportunity to wear some of those clothes you 've been spending your money on lately . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Gone back to her mother in Sardinia with the children — he 's in for eight years . ’ |
| 24 | At the drink-up after their New York appearance , the band were hanging out with ex-Nymph INGRE LORRE , who invited them all back to her mother 's house for a Halloween party ( surely an offer not to be passed up ) . |
| 25 | One woman traced her like of cooking not only back to her mother but to her grandmother . |
| 26 | So the huge , blundering , privileged girl , now seventeen , went back to her mother 's comfortable house . |
| 27 | ‘ Come in , Anne , ’ Mrs Redmond urged , but she said she must get back to her mother . |
| 28 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |
| 29 | Carolyn did not move back to her mother 's , as Bryony ( who perhaps would never stop being jealous ; Clare 's mistakes were as often with women as men ) had hoped , and as Clare herself had half expected . |
| 30 | Juliet called back to her mother , and they went down the path to the car . |