Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] 's mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 27 and 31 July he made two final appeals to Leopold , who had responded curtly to his son 's enthusiastic descriptions of his recent musical success ; and on 4 August the lovers were married at St Stephen 's Cathedral , with only Constanze 's mother , her younger sister , her guardian , and two other witnesses present . |
| 2 | In ‘ A Room with a View ’ , Cecil asks not only Lucy 's mother 's permission but also her brother 's . |
| 3 | Perhaps Vincent 's mother had put pressure on him , or perhaps he had his own reasons for softening the blow . |
| 4 | Finally Tess 's mother replied in a low voice , ‘ She is at Sandbourne . ’ |
| 5 | The pica stopped once Maria 's mother agreed to stop her evening job and provide more care and attention to Maria . |
| 6 | As he was wondering whether to proceed further or retreat a woman appeared , possibly Minton 's mother , who said , ‘ Ah , hullo , you must be Johnny 's latest boyfriend . ’ |
| 7 | A month or so later Anna 's mother got a kitten , a grey tabby tom kitten , who was very affectionate from the start , sat on her lap , purred loudly when stroked and snuggled up in her arms , though Anna was sure her mother had not stopped having baths or using perfume . |
| 8 | so six months later Terry 's mother died it was a thousand pound gone up ! |
| 9 | LITTLE BILLY 'S MOTHER was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do . |
| 10 | Now Lisa 's mother , Ann , wants the law to stop children that young handling air guns at all . |
| 11 | Now Nichols 's mother could say , ‘ There goes my son the movie director . ’ |
| 12 | Now Hannah 's mother was a lady … a real , proper lady was Lydia . |
| 13 | Today Becky 's mother checked on her progress at Oxford 's Radcliffe Infirmary . |
| 14 | Today Anna 's mother said his resignation was an admission that the magistrates were in the wrong . |
| 15 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 16 | But however , she us , poor old soul , she did her best well Jackie 's mother used to go see her |
| 17 | Then Mary 's mother died , and her father was left on his own . |
| 18 | Sometimes Albert 's mother helped with the book-keeping in a side room she called ‘ The Den ’ . |
| 19 | Just eighteen months previously Diana 's mother had given birth to John , a baby so badly deformed and sickly that he survived for only ten hours . |