Example sentences of "mother [coord] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Start by concentrating on one person , perhaps addressing your mother or your best friend and then , when you see them smiling back and you gather confidence , turn to the rest of the audience . |
2 | Not something that the press , my mother or my estranged wife had any influence over . |
3 | There was no picture of his mother or his murdered brother Stefan . |
4 | A MOTHER and her two-year-old son died in a house fire in west Belfast early yesterday . |
5 | He had been defending a woman who was accused of driving a car at a mother and her two-year-old child . |
6 | He was brought up by his widowed mother and her elderly Catholic lodger , Martha Freeman , daughter of a rich West Indian planter , and at the age of sixteen he was articled to an apothecary in Wells , Somerset . |
7 | IN an apparent racial attack , black gunmen wielding AK47 rifles yesterday sprayed bullets at random at white motorists near Johannesburg , killing a mother and her 14-year-old son and seriously wounding three other people . |
8 | ‘ O Mary , mother of sorrows who knows so well a mother 's anguish , intercede I pray you for this sorrowing mother and her innocent son … ’ |
9 | In a churchyard at Bilston in Staffordshire stands a memorial to a mother and her two infant children , who all died within a period of three weeks in the winter of 1847 ; they are described as ‘ all victims to the neglect of sanitary regulations specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town . ’ |
10 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
11 | A refugee mother and her two teenage sons were the founder residents of one of the earliest Christadelphian hostels — Little Thorn , on the Bilton Road in Rugby . |
12 | A BRITISH mother and her two daughters were almost certainly among 54 victims of the air disaster at Faro , Portugal . |
13 | A SINGLE mother and her two children have been evicted from their home just two weeks before Christmas . |
14 | A MOTHER and her two young children were rescued by brave passers-by after their car burst into flames . |
15 | A MOTHER and her two children were mown down by joyriders as they waited at a bus stop . |
16 | This is a warm and homely property run by a mother and her two sons . |
17 | Police hunting the killer of a mother and her two children have discovered a body which may be that of the missing father Dennis Garvey . |
18 | A mother and her two children had to have a hospital check up after their car crashed into the central reservation on the A19 . |
19 | A MOTHER and her two children escaped from their blazing house in The Bank , Barnard Castle , yesterday . |
20 | A MOTHER and her two children escaped from their blazing house in Barnard Castle yesterday . |
21 | After the separation the children had lived with the mother and her new man friend . |
22 | Parents hold ‘ conversations ’ , even with very young babies , as the following ‘ dialogue ’ between a mother and her two-month-old daughter clearly shows : |
23 | " My dear , it is God 's will , " Amabel kept on saying because that was the thing her own mother and her dear old nanny — both gone now — had always said to her . |
24 | Surrounded by a sea of mud , a mother and her handicapped son refuse to move . |
25 | Yet , the physical demands of numerous pregnancies too closely spaced may have maleffects for the mother and child , and commencement of childbearing before the woman is physically mature may represent a serious risk to health and life for the mother and her young children . |
26 | A mother and her young daughter were taken to hospital for a check-up after a fire at their home in Romaine Park , Hartlepool . |
27 | For example , a short-term foster placement was used for a mother and her four handicapped children while work was undertaken with the father in relation to his plans for himself and his family . |
28 | A mother and her four children have been badly hurt when a train hit their van on an unmanned level crossing . |
29 | Edna , torn between duty to her sick mother and her small charge , looked at Liza agitatedly , ‘ But Miss Celia , ’ she began . |
30 | For many years after his father 's early death Mitchell supported his mother and her seven younger children . |