Example sentences of "mother tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're going to have a little baby brother , Martha , ’ her mother told her one day . |
| 2 | ‘ You see ? ’ her mother told her . |
| 3 | " You will be married here in Ballingolin , " her mother told her , " and when you arrive in Lisbon , you will become the mistress of the Quinta de Santo António . " |
| 4 | From what her mother told her , Sara began to compile her own mental picture of Lisbon . |
| 5 | Her mother told her — not that there was much to tell . |
| 6 | Anne 's mother told her that she had suggested that Molly came to them while Margaret was busy with nursing , but she and Margaret had decided that the company of the little girl did the old ladies more good than doctor 's medicine . |
| 7 | Her mother told her that there had been nothing on the wireless all day except music and news bulletins . |
| 8 | ‘ I had a feeling when I went to bed last night , ’ her mother told her . |
| 9 | She would n't , my mother told her she 's not allowed to take the bed . |
| 10 | My mother told me once that on November the fifth someone in the audience had thrown a firework at the screen and the people in the film jumped . |
| 11 | From quite an early age , his mother told me , John 's interest in theatrical things , and specifically in ballet , manifested itself in setting up cardboard boxes as stages , with pipe cleaners for dancers . |
| 12 | My mother told me I was more domesticated than my sisters . |
| 13 | ‘ My mother told me it was like having red hair . |
| 14 | The possibility that I might starve myself to death was never raised : instead I was scolded for looking like a scarecrow , and my mother told me that she was ashamed to be seen with me . |
| 15 | My mother told me that I was cold because I did n't eat enough . |
| 16 | I waited and waited , and my mother told me to leave well alone , that the war would get on very nicely without my efforts . |
| 17 | My mother told me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 19 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 20 | Later , my mother told me they had to lip read : they could n't hear each other speak for the noise of the looms . |
| 21 | My mother told me . ’ |
| 22 | My mother told me when I come out of prison that I 'm very paranoid . |
| 23 | ‘ And you must go to confession , ’ my mother told me . |
| 24 | Sometimes when my mother told me how fortunate I was , how lucky to live in a nice house and be engaged to a good man , I felt like a fish in a gilded cage . |
| 25 | Lili had said , ‘ His mother told me . ’ |
| 26 | I ate another Danish ; mother told me everybody else was fine , back home . |
| 27 | Mother told me that once when she had gone with them to chapel — and she was only a tot-she had just a little peep around at the rest of the congregation . |
| 28 | My mother told me about it . |
| 29 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 30 | They were new to the Colony , but my mother told me as much as she knew about them in advance . |