Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | In obvious ways a native-speaker setting out to become a teacher of her/his mother tongue has a clear head start . |
| 2 | The conjunction of Morgan 's job and his instrument offered endless possibilities of adolescent jokes , particularly when he and -their mother were on honeymoon . |
| 3 | Later still , the analyst suggests that Fraser may want to offer reparation , by writing this book , for the guilt he had felt in relation to his father , and Fraser asks : ‘ For wanting to destroy him so I could have my mother to myself ? ’ |
| 4 | O me ! ‘ t is my mother . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't kick the rug , ’ my mother said . |
| 6 | She 's a lot nicer than my mother because she does n't have any stupid daughters to distract her . |
| 7 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 8 | Would my mother now think I 'd suffered enough , I wondered . |
| 9 | ‘ My mother was born there . ’ |
| 10 | Back at home I asked my mother why we spoke in English . |
| 11 | And Jeff says : ‘ Honey , I 've got an urgent message from my mother . |
| 12 | The letter with my name in English on the envelope , a Moroccan stamp , and a list of requests from my family for a white bridal veil to go with my sister 's wedding dress , surgical stockings for my brother and a china dish for my mother . |
| 13 | I remembered the threatening looks of the men of the family , the attentive stares from the ones in the street , my mother 's harsh way of talking : and I repeated it to myself . |
| 14 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 15 | When I was fourteen months old my mother was arrested . |
| 16 | And that was in my own country , the land of my birth , and the birth of my father and my mother , and their fathers and their mothers . |
| 17 | I have the impression that the novels of Phyllis Bottome are now little read , though I remember my mother borrowing them from the local library in Barnsley in the 1930s , and speaking of them with respect . |
| 18 | MY MOTHER smacked me . |
| 19 | It was my mother Chris Castor , a fine actress , who was leading lady there and gave Mar Dignam lessons in elocution . |
| 20 | It was my mother Chris Castor , a fine actress , who was leading lady there and gave Mark Dignam lessons in elocution . |
| 21 | Mr Ford writes only : ‘ My mother taught me it was wrong to crow . |
| 22 | ‘ When I was young my mama used to say ‘ grow up and see how tough the world is ’ ' and ‘ I was unhappy at my mother 's death/ I was unhappy at my father 's death/ … |
| 23 | Then , every night I 'd return to that street and live in one room with my mother . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , you silly bastard , ’ he replied , ‘ My father was born on the Scottish side of the Border and my mother on the English side . |
| 25 | The Frenchman handed me an aluminium tin , similar to the one my mother used when she was baking scones and shaking flour onto her baking board . |
| 26 | My mother called an usherette to have me removed , and I was handed into strange-smelling arms behind a bright beam that dazzled me . |
| 27 | The arms hugged my squirming form and carried me out , while my mother stayed to watch the rest of the film . |
| 28 | When we got home I was thrashed for making my mother ‘ look a fool ’ . |
| 29 | The witch has my mother 's face . |
| 30 | My mother pinpoints the downfall of western civilisation as the moment when a teenager turned on a transistor radio during a screening of The Robe . |