Example sentences of "my mother [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother got me out of the room . |
| 2 | ‘ Ah , well , be fair — my mother got me up and gave me breakfast , ’ Mitch said bravely . |
| 3 | ‘ My mother hates me . ’ |
| 4 | I got my mother to take me to the dentist every week so I could run away from it . ’ |
| 5 | From the age of about four onwards , and at intervals over the years , Shanti would ask , ‘ Did n't my mother love me ? ’ |
| 6 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |
| 7 | My mother told me once that on November the fifth someone in the audience had thrown a firework at the screen and the people in the film jumped . |
| 8 | My mother told me I was more domesticated than my sisters . |
| 9 | ‘ My mother told me it was like having red hair . |
| 10 | The possibility that I might starve myself to death was never raised : instead I was scolded for looking like a scarecrow , and my mother told me that she was ashamed to be seen with me . |
| 11 | My mother told me that I was cold because I did n't eat enough . |
| 12 | I waited and waited , and my mother told me to leave well alone , that the war would get on very nicely without my efforts . |
| 13 | My mother told me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 15 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 16 | Later , my mother told me they had to lip read : they could n't hear each other speak for the noise of the looms . |
| 17 | My mother told me . ’ |
| 18 | My mother told me when I come out of prison that I 'm very paranoid . |
| 19 | ‘ And you must go to confession , ’ my mother told me . |
| 20 | Sometimes when my mother told me how fortunate I was , how lucky to live in a nice house and be engaged to a good man , I felt like a fish in a gilded cage . |
| 21 | My mother told me about it . |
| 22 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 23 | They were new to the Colony , but my mother told me as much as she knew about them in advance . |
| 24 | I , I can remember erm when we ever had women in from the country they 'd say , oh yes , y y my mother told me always to take raspberry , raspberry leaf tea . |
| 25 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 26 | My mother told me it was six ; I could not feel the lateness in the day , other than the westward blare of a reluctantly falling sun . |
| 27 | Palled by the bleak , dusty nooks of outer Dublin ( my mother told me once that eventually , in some parts , all cities look like Brooklyn , and I 'm beginning to see her point ) , I expect the hospital to be yet a stranger place . |
| 28 | Oh , yes , I was only a girl , and he was only a boy — but when my mother told me we would n't be coming back , and that I 'd very soon forget him , I believed her . ’ |
| 29 | My mother told me it . |
| 30 | I can remember my mother telling me that he used to look out of his bedroom window many times during stormy nights . |