Example sentences of "mother [verb] i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my mother wants me off the Project , she can damn well go through channels and see how far it gets her . ’ |
| 2 | My mother told me about it . |
| 3 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 4 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I remember my mother wanting me to be a personal assistant to a managing director . |
| 7 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 8 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 9 | When he hesitated Carrie ended , ‘ As your mother greeting me with open arms . |
| 10 | ‘ My mother warned me about men who turn up late carrying wine . ’ |
| 11 | Few words had passed between them over the past week , and now she could see that it was with an effort he said , ‘ Your mother tells me about this idea of hers . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's this your mother tells me about Markham coming to work at OBEX ? ’ |
| 13 | For my part , I 'll let you go — as my mother tells me to . |
| 14 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 15 | A month later my mother took me to task : |
| 16 | When I was a kid , in Hull , my father and mother took me to Hessle to have tea with his boss , and I remember Mother telling me that she had stayed up half the night making me a new sailor suit and saying , ‘ Behave yourself , Bill . |
| 17 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 18 | My mother took me to a paediatrician on the East Side of town , once or twice a year . |
| 19 | Must have been the early 1940s , my mother taking me for a walk near Bostall Woods during a gap in the bombing . |
| 20 | ‘ Mother put me on this awful diet . |
| 21 | And marriage and being a mother terrifies me for that reason . |
| 22 | I got my mother to take me to the dentist every week so I could run away from it . ’ |
| 23 | I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor . |
| 24 | ‘ I now feel that I 'm getting to be somebody in my own right , and not someone my mother wanted me to be . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Mother wanted me to , but what good would it do ? |