Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |
| 2 | My mother dashed in from the kitchen , ‘ Norman , there 's no excuse for that . ’ |
| 3 | Hari thrust her worries into the back of her mind and helped her mother to sit up against the pillows . |
| 4 | She watched her mother walk out of the kitchen as if in a trance and a few seconds later Carla was nestled in her granny 's arms . |
| 5 | She tried to keep her tone light , matter-of-fact , but her mother swung round from the sink where she had just begun to prepare vegetables for lunch , and her father lowered his paper and peered over his glasses at her . |
| 6 | When Noreen was fourteen , it happened for the fifth time , and her mother ran out of the house . |
| 7 | Her mother goes in for the bingo . |
| 8 | After waking the older girl , her mother went back into the house to finish her coffee , and almost immediately heard first one , then several other cars go speeding up the lane past the door . |
| 9 | Jo nearly fainted with shock as her mother stepped out of the pool house , her face pale under its tan and her freshly painted mouth twisted with fury . |
| 10 | At this she cut herself a narrow wedge from the pie , and when her mother turned round from the oven and looked at her plate , she remarked , ‘ You wo n't get fat on that . |
| 11 | Her mother knelt down at the fireplace and lifted the iron grill from the front of the fireplace . |
| 12 | I have noticed how close we have grown since his mother ran off with the Turnbury Post Office United 's physiotherapist . |
| 13 | His mother came in from the kitchen to ask if we 'd like cheese or fresh cheese with cream . |
| 14 | His mother trundled around on the edges of his thoughts and he tried to push her away . |
| 15 | In fact the actor , who reassures fans that he has no plans to quit 90210 now that his movie career is under way , has a more than healthy respect for the opposite sex — a lot of it born out of his admiration at how his mother struggled through during the dark early years of his life . |
| 16 | So Wolfgang and his mother moved on to the spacious , elegant town on the Rhine that had been the seat of the Elector Palatine since 1720 . |
| 17 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 18 | Victorine was confused by the tale Baptiste had told her just now when he and his mother turned up at the back door with Léonie 's sandal and an armful of bread . |
| 19 | ‘ Little Billy , ’ his mother called out from the kitchen . |