Example sentences of "mother [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
| 2 | Her mother fought for her to be educated at school like other children . |
| 3 | We knew that if the mother asked for her back , we would have to give her up cheerfully , even though Joan and Susan were inseparable . |
| 4 | A mother asked for help in rescuing her fourteen-year-old daughter from a coven . |
| 5 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 6 | On Saturday , Joshua 's mother headed for the |
| 7 | Mother jailed for drug smuggling goes free |
| 8 | They had huddled together , small exiles , refugees , in a boarding-house in Manchester , while their mother looked for work and their father hung on in Berlin trying to assemble his papers . |
| 9 | Much later , after the funeral , Billy 's mother looked for the letter that Auntie had written to the pension people . |
| 10 | ‘ This Georgian movement … which my father and mother died for … is it still active ? ’ |
| 11 | A man behind the young mother reached for the microphone , but this time Gerrard held on firmly . |
| 12 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 13 | Daniel , who dialled 999 as his mother struggled for her life , will be a given a new start , cut off from 55-year-old Horbury . |
| 14 | Had he stayed in the East End , he may have drifted into delinquency ; instead , his mother sent for him when he was 12 to start a new life in Canada . |
| 15 | On the ground far below , Father applauded while Mother cried for him to come down . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , it did , ’ Gina agreed as her mother paused for breath . |
| 17 | The Mother waited for the straggling child to catch up with her , and then she bent down , shouted something to it right up close against its face , and then hit it hard across the face with the back of her right hand . |
| 18 | At the end , in the doorway of the captain 's house , his mother waited for us , an enormous woman in black . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |