Example sentences of "for her [adj] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shirley Armitage does n't give up easily and when it comes to vital care for her elderly mother , she 's prepared for a battle . |
| 2 | For some time , Mrs Edwards worked in the Denbigh office of solicitors Kerfoot Owen and Company but for many years had to care for her elderly mother with whom she lived . |
| 3 | ( Widowed woman receiving ( then ) supplementary benefit who had been caring for her frail mother for ten years ) |
| 4 | ‘ She had not the spirit to stand up for her own mother . |
| 5 | It is possible that one of the epitaphs Leapor wrote was for Mary Freemantle , rather than for her own mother as first seems likely [ ML , 1 , 263 ] . |
| 6 | One social worker who had cared for her own mother for many y ears explains below how important it is to take on the role of carer for the right reasons : |
| 7 | She had difficulty finding her house key in her pocket , but when she did manage to open the door , she ran into the house and up the stairs screaming wildly for her own mother . |
| 8 | For the first time she felt a faint stirring of compassion for her own mother , whose obsession with her appearance , shopping , flirtation and gossip Julia had despised for as long as she could remember . |
| 9 | In her study My Mother My Self ( Fontana , £5.99 ) , psychologist Nancy Friday puts her finger on how I felt when she says that , at such a time , ‘ The new mother finds the need for her own mother increasing . |
| 10 | Jaqueline had retired from her job early to care for her 69-year-old mother with senile dementia , and was outraged to find that because she had a husband she did not qualify for the invalid care allowance . |
| 11 | ( Woman , not employed , married to unemployed man and caring for her blind mother ) ( Glendinning , 1992a ) |
| 12 | She had not been called up as she had to care for her widowed mother and do a Civil Service job . |
| 13 | Ada was helping her father , the local postman , and had to run the house for her old mother ; Nives had opened a hairdresser 's shop ; and Nora was already apprenticed to a tailor , |