Example sentences of "i mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Me mother said one o ’ the Harvey-Beaumonts came back not long ago , and prised the name of a horse long-dead from the top o ’ the stable door ! ’ he bellowed . |
| 2 | In the cities it might be a neighbour up the street who took the part of grandparent , as for the Stoke pottery fireman 's son whose mother was always seeking advice from ‘ your Grandma Coates ’ — ‘ I could never find out what relative she was to me mother . |
| 3 | A Potteries child who was brought up by her grandmother and ‘ treated her as me mother ’ remembers how ‘ grandad always used to turn and say , ‘ I 'm not your daddy you know . ’ |
| 4 | The typical tone of memory , however , is very different from this : a special sense of love , even devotion , in the grandchild for a wonderful old lady : ‘ I treated her as me mother ’ , as an abandoned farm-child sent over from Ireland put it ; or a motherless Bolton spinner 's son — ‘ she were a love … |
| 5 | We 've grown up as if she was me mother . ’ |
| 6 | The songs on their first two singles were repackaged on a 12-inch EP called ‘ Do n't Try To Stop Me Mother ’ . |
| 7 | So me mother used to keep it dark . |
| 8 | It was the seven shillings wages I was worried about , but I used to give that to me mother . |
| 9 | Me mother — God rest her — showed me . |
| 10 | ‘ Dead and never called me Mother , ’ it had probably been . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't stamp on the Catholics ; else I 'll have to run you in for kicking me mother in the face . ’ |
| 12 | Me mother gets up at five o'clock with tears upon her cheeks , |
| 13 | Without mentioning it to me Mother effectively torpedoed this submarine of rumour by putting it about that Mr Broadhurst was my guardian . |
| 14 | After a couple of days , me and me mother were n't getting on , so she hoyed me out . |
| 15 | They knew what I was like with me mother . |
| 16 | If I did n't have me mother , I could have more hours [ as a home help ] , if I had no ties . |
| 17 | If anything happens to me mother — and it 's not all that far off really — I 'm expected to pick meself up , go back out there and start again . |
| 18 | Me mother 's kept me in food , she 's looked after me dogs , she 's paid the vet 's bills … |
| 19 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
| 20 | I 've got to think — if anything happened to me mother , say she were to pass away tonight — I 've no job and nothing coming in at all , only perhaps interest from savings which would n't keep me … |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm under no illusions about the two of us , on me mother 's life … ’ |
| 22 | At the early age of thirty-eight me mother sent me West Get up , said she , and get a job says I I 'll do me best I pulled on my Wellingtons to march to march to Kiljimock But I took a wrong turn at Charlestown and ended up in Knock Once this quiet crossroads was a place of quiet prayer Where Catholics got indulgent once or twice a year You could buy a pair of rosary beads or get your candles blessed If you had a guilty conscience , you could get it off your chest … |
| 23 | On me mother 's life . |
| 24 | Mind you , I only got it because he died intestate and me mother does n't care . |
| 25 | I was just worried what me mother would be thinking |