Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother for a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He swopped my mother for a younger woman when he was in his late sixties .
2 If no one will go down there at all and and sit with their mother for a for a couple of hours .
3 Her mother for a start .
4 Sylvia was pestering her mother for a story one morning after breakfast .
5 Sister was off duty , but the staff nurse , a big , auburn-haired girl with freckles , agreed to let Juliet see her mother for a few minutes .
6 ‘ Still in Mariánské Láznë , ’ Fabia replied , and chatted to her mother for a few more minutes , until her mother promptly gave her another worry to add to her collection .
7 A small boy asked his mother for a cucumber to take to Sunday School .
8 In another year , at almost any other time , Adam would have touched his father or more probably his mother for a loan , but in June 1976 his father was barely speaking to him , and his mother would have been scared to go against her husband .
9 To let him in to his mother for a suck ,
10 At a press conference he warned parents : ‘ Poor James only went missing from his mother for a matter of seconds and he had gone , disappeared .
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