Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] mother [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If my mother feels the need to recover then perhaps you do too . |
| 2 | And while they played in the barn and while their mother sang the girl found something behind the haystack . |
| 3 | When the children were young " big sister " was delegated to get the smaller ones ready for bed while her mother shared the leadership of the evening services.Joyce told the children fairy stories or Bible stories and they sang Army songs and choruses . |
| 4 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 5 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 6 | When my mother saw the room , her jaw dropped . |
| 7 | For many years she delivered the mail when her mother ran the post office . |
| 8 | Young Gerald assumed his maternal surname when his mother inherited the estates . |
| 9 | He was still fuming when his mother entered the room . |
| 10 | ‘ Though your mother wore the ring every day after my father gave it to her , Maria noticed that her hand was bare when she left . ’ |