Example sentences of "her mother [verb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When they came into the light her mother saw the child 's face covered in blood and felt faint . |
| 2 | The most persistent difficulty occurred whenever her mother fed the baby . |
| 3 | Her mother insisted the device was essential to stop her skin from stretching , but Jo merely saw it as another strategy to make her ugly . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's very bad , is it ? ’ her mother asked the young man in a worried voice . |
| 5 | When the children were young " big sister " was delegated to get the smaller ones ready for bed while her mother shared the leadership of the evening services.Joyce told the children fairy stories or Bible stories and they sang Army songs and choruses . |
| 6 | As Kate and her mother left the hospital , Dan was making his way in . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe her mother left the country at the end of January so I am shell-shocked , basically , to find she was on her own . |
| 8 | In the early hours of that same day , June 6th , a little while before her mother heard the official news , Liza Carrow was woken by the sound of throbbing engines in the skies above south Wiltshire . |
| 9 | ‘ Certainly it 's what I want , ’ said Robyn , so fiercely that her mother let the subject drop . |
| 10 | When she was eight she was taken by her mother to see the Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre . |
| 11 | She would have liked her mother to see the Cotswolds at their best . |
| 12 | She would go and stand behind the sofa to pass her motion and when finished would demand that her mother remove the nappy immediately . |
| 13 | For many years she delivered the mail when her mother ran the post office . |
| 14 | Tess helped her mother move the big bed against the church wall . |
| 15 | Travel : Doing the Twist with the wild men of Borneo In search of excitement : a teenager describes an arduous trek on the other side of the world ; her mother describes the difficulties of dealing with an adventurous daughter . |
| 16 | Dot watched as her mother applied the shiny flame-red lacquer to each toe-nail . |
| 17 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 18 | Elizabeth , knowing her mother was a bad sailor , cried off at the last moment , claiming she was tired — she was surprised at the laughter that raised — and as she expected , her mother took the chance to stay behind with her . |
| 19 | ‘ I know , but she phoned for her results — she was surprised to get me , she seemed to have hoped you 'd be waiting by the phone — and when I told them you 'd gone , her mother took the phone and was in quite a tizz and had a word with Mr Fry and then said they 'd get the next plane home . |
| 20 | When she was seven her parents separated and her mother took the children to England . |
| 21 | Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it . |
| 22 | Now , as Judith started to help her mother prepare the Sabbath-evening meal , she continued to avoid mention of Molly 's letter . |
| 23 | She called on her mother to leave the little green park , leave neutrality and passivity , and come to her aid ; she called on her grandmother to leave the grand study , to leave scientific fact and come out here and save her . |
| 24 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 25 | Her mother told the court that her pocket money was far below that . |
| 26 | Her mother feared the trauma of being snatched from her could bring on an attack , and ran around frantically trying to find both the inhaler and the child 's tablets . |
| 27 | But her mother had the same sort of chin . |
| 28 | I her mother had the shop |
| 29 | Her mother phoned the hospital at 7.15pm last night in response to press appeals and arrived there soon after . |
| 30 | She stood like a dummy as her mother gave the last twitches to her wedding dress , trying to ignore the excitement that buzzed through the small house . |