Example sentences of "[adv] to his mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ John ] wished me to say for him everything that was kind to all , especially to his mother , sisters , and Mrs. Cleave and Mrs. Stuart , also Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell . |
| 2 | He could n't find Wes in his room so to his mother said bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him , tell Wesley I need him tell Wesley I may be late , I 've something to do that can not wait . |
| 3 | He could n't find Wes in his room so to his mother said bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him , tell Wesley I need him tell Wesley I may be late , I 've something to do that can not wait . |
| 4 | He learns about his father 's weak spirit , which caved in to his mother 's strength ; how his father committed adultery with Harry 's aunt and tried to kill his mother ; how his father deserted the family when Harry was eight years old . |
| 5 | To let him in to his mother for a suck , |
| 6 | So close to Paris , it would be expensive , and Alain must indeed be successful in his work too if he could afford simply to give his share away to his mother . |
| 7 | He simply ran a wire from his bedroom under the carpet and downstairs to his mother 's phone , it was alleged . |
| 8 | David responded to the teasing by walking over to his mother , putting an arm around her thin shoulders and dropping a kiss on to her smooth hair . |
| 9 | Edward walked over to his mother . |
| 10 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 11 | It was a strange situation , which must have made a lasting impression on Richard , who was more than usually close to his mother . |
| 12 | Either an eminent barrister , Matthew decided , about to buy his wife — not his mistress , not with that hair — some expensive bauble , or else he worked in Fortnum 's , down in Piccadilly , where all the salesmen dressed like that , and was just showing off to his mother . |
| 13 | Edward , now in Oxford , felt obliged to write home to his mother with full details of the affair and for the next fortnight pondered the steps he should take . |
| 14 | The kitchen clock read six thirty , plenty of time to walk home to his mother 's cottage for a wash and a bit of breakfast . |
| 15 | John Pain wrote home to his mother : ‘ I note that a Canadian ( Walsh ) sprang a glycol leak at 27,000 feet and he was forced to bale out . |
| 16 | Wolfgang 's letters home to his mother and sister are full of childish prattle about the places they visited and the people they met , such as the remarkable singer Lucrezia Aguiari — ‘ La Bastardella ’ — who could dispatch incredibly high notes with effortless ease . |
| 17 | Mentioning this once to his mother she was speedily put right : Pen was all his father , lacked entirely the characteristics of those other Barrett males . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , ’ she added , with a quick look round as if she thought to check whether anyone might hear , ‘ Sir John 's partiality for Benedict extended also to his mother . ’ |
| 19 | Leaving Mary staring after him , Joe ran up the stairs , crossed the gallery , and went straight to his mother 's bedroom . |
| 20 | He was going to face up to his mother when he got home and have it out . |
| 21 | Horace Walpole describes the effect of walking through the grotto into the garden in language that both recalls Eloisa to Abelard and anticipates descriptions in the Gothic novel : ‘ The passing through the gloom from the grotto to opening day ; the retiring and again assembling shades ; the dusky groves , the larger lawn , and the solemnity of the termination at the cypresses that led up to his mother 's tomb , are managed with exquisite judgement . ’ |
| 22 | THEY found him clinging helplessly to his mother 's corpse . |
| 23 | ‘ Grace , ’ she called out to his mother , ‘ it 's Mark . ’ |
| 24 | Finally he pointed out to his mother that there were but two keys to the room and the Shills had one each . |
| 25 | Richard was parcelled out to his mother , just as their other sons , Henry , Geoffrey and John , were kept by their father . |
| 26 | Their only son , also Philip , decided to come back to his mother 's home to live . |
| 27 | Then he went back to his mother , taking the Kings with him , and there he divided the whole spoil with the hidalgos and his other companions , both the Moorish captives and all the spoil of whatever kind , so that they departed right joyfully , being well pleased with what he had done . |
| 28 | It has overtones of an Old Testament story in which the prophet Elijah also raised a widow 's son from death and ‘ gave him back to his mother ’ ( Luke 7:15 ; 1 Kings 17:23 ) . |
| 29 | Patrick nudged the door closed with his foot and turned back to his mother . |
| 30 | When Leach discovered Jacqueline was sleeping with Tommy he moved back to his mother 's house in Slough , and at Easter , 1989 , Tommy moved into Jacqueline 's flat . |