Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother " in BNC.
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1 | Charlotte Keatley 's My Mother Said ] Never Should has been greeted with great acclaim by the male critical establishment who appear unable to apply their usual standards to the work of a young woman . |
2 | As I say I 'm coming back Sunday ( my mothers 60th birthday in Harrogate on Saturday night … infact it 's her birthday everywhere but she 's in Harrogate ) so if I drive you 'll have to wait if you want a lift ! ! ! ! ! |
3 | my mothers today . |
4 | with my mothers |
5 | In obvious ways a native-speaker setting out to become a teacher of her/his mother tongue has a clear head start . |
6 | The conjunction of Morgan 's job and his instrument offered endless possibilities of adolescent jokes , particularly when he and -their mother were on honeymoon . |
7 | 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 ? ’ |
8 | O me ! ‘ t is my mother . |
9 | ‘ Do n't kick the rug , ’ my mother said . |
10 | She 's a lot nicer than my mother because she does n't have any stupid daughters to distract her . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Would my mother now think I 'd suffered enough , I wondered . |
13 | ‘ My mother was born there . ’ |
14 | Back at home I asked my mother why we spoke in English . |
15 | And Jeff says : ‘ Honey , I 've got an urgent message from my mother . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 ? |
19 | When I was fourteen months old my mother was arrested . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | MY MOTHER smacked me . |
23 | It was my mother Chris Castor , a fine actress , who was leading lady there and gave Mar Dignam lessons in elocution . |
24 | It was my mother Chris Castor , a fine actress , who was leading lady there and gave Mark Dignam lessons in elocution . |
25 | Mr Ford writes only : ‘ My mother taught me it was wrong to crow . |
26 | ‘ 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/ … |
27 | Then , every night I 'd return to that street and live in one room with my mother . |
28 | ‘ Well , you silly bastard , ’ he replied , ‘ My father was born on the Scottish side of the Border and my mother on the English side . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | My mother called an usherette to have me removed , and I was handed into strange-smelling arms behind a bright beam that dazzled me . |