Example sentences of "i [vb base] [pron] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean her mother 's been dead for , I do n't know how many years . |
| 2 | need to know , need to know , I do n't know mum , I could n't tell you just erm stick it on before you go to bed just give it a bit of time to take the chill of it , alright , bye You can if you wish discard everything that 's just been said I mean my mother 's trying to book my holiday which does n't surprise me , , but then again she usually tries to anyway , where you going ? , what you doing ? , who you going with ? right , I shall tell you now the exam questions shall I ? , what do you want to know ? |
| 3 | I mean your mother tries to torment you . |
| 4 | The only thing I worry about is if I lose my mother at this time of life , before I 'm due for a pension — what 's going to happen to me ? |
| 5 | I heard the clock strike each successive hour , and I fear my mother fared no better , for she had promised to wake her ( in ordinary circumstances ) sleepy-headed son . |
| 6 | At this precise moment , thought Helen , I hate my mother . |
| 7 | Even here , I expect his mother comes in from time to time and has a good old poke round . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I expect your mother wishes you to remain unenlightened , since you must wait another four years for your bedding ! ’ |
| 9 | Oh Sally I expect your mother wo n't come because of the baby she said . |
| 10 | And I want my mother . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm only doing it because I want your mother to have a quiet lie-in , so you can turn that thing off for a start . ’ |
| 12 | I never realized what I put my mother through when I was going |
| 13 | ‘ I hope my mother gets the job . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ David , I hope your mother did n't think me dreadfully insensitive- ’ |
| 15 | I hope your mother will like the table . ’ |
| 16 | So I hope your mother and father do n't think we 're all like that er , Rosie . |
| 17 | ‘ I make my living and I support my mother ! ’ |
| 18 | It is not just the duty I owe my mother — but even more , my Father . |
| 19 | If there 's anything you do n't understand , I know your mother wo n't tell you , you come and tell gran . ’ |
| 20 | And I know your mother likes butter fudge ; give her this . ’ |
| 21 | My mother sat my daughter down and said something like , ‘ Look , I know your mother 's up to something , she 's sick , she needs help , we 've got to help her . |
| 22 | I know your mother scoffs at social life but I do n't think she realizes what pleasure she is missing , how delightful it can be to be among amusing people . ’ |
| 23 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |
| 24 | ‘ A nice woman ; I know my mother was fond of her too . |
| 25 | The house that we lived in was a two up and a two down sort of thing you know , and er I know my mother used to take in washing , go out black leading . |
| 26 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 27 | I know my mother would n't agree and she would be even mad if she knew he was a black boy . |
| 28 | ‘ Never , though he did say his local picture house was the Pavilion and I know his mother took her loaves to be baked at a place called Jimmy McFadden 's bakery , but they 're not in the phone book , either of them . |
| 29 | ‘ I know his mother Mary would love to see him again . |
| 30 | I like your mother , though . |