Example sentences of "[pron] mother [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 2 | Perhaps my mother had received another anonymous letter which she had successfully concealed from me ? |
| 3 | In the end my mother had invited fewer than fifty people . |
| 4 | We did not stop , and when I got home to Banbury it was to hear that my mother had died that day in Cardiff . |
| 5 | For many years , with a total income of two pounds and ten shillings , my mother had to provide all . |
| 6 | A marriage only needs , can only support , one strong partner , and my mother had claimed that role for herself . |
| 7 | Her mother had done that and two people had suffered for it . |
| 8 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 9 | It was n't until her mother had issued those ridiculous and unnecessary warnings over driving alone at night that the idiocy of her own attitude had dawned on her . |
| 10 | What exactly her mother had had enough of Carla was not sure . |
| 11 | In Diane 's case , her mother had bought most of her baby things and also her maternity clothes . |
| 12 | Her mother tended to see all expenses as a sign of innate vulgarity , and had tried to instil into her children the view that the truly refined can manage without toys , clothes and entertainments . |
| 13 | Quickly , in as few words as possible , Jack told him what had happened with the Glory , how he had seen the gigantic Worm break through the earth , and how both Tina and his mother had denied all knowledge of what they had seen . |
| 14 | His father had died and his mother had married another man and completely rejected him . |
| 15 | His mother had taken all the family jewellery with her . |
| 16 | He and his mother had had many arguments and disagreements over the past few years . |