Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to his mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was always talking about it and it caused much worry to his mother Sadie and her husband Daniel . |
| 2 | When the dance ended , he released her without a word and moved away to talk to his mother and sister , who had been crying passionately in the church as they watched Damian become Rachel 's husband . |
| 3 | Little Billy always lies to his mother , but they are never convincing . |
| 4 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 5 | Little Billy always lied to his mother , but they were never convincing . |
| 6 | Charlie tried to take in everything at once , but his eyes settled on a coloured picture that had hung above his bed in Whitechapel Road and had once belonged to his mother . |
| 7 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |
| 8 | Darren had become much more attached to his mother and she was showing much more affection towards him . |
| 9 | News of Hickey 's latest protest to prove his innocence was today given to his mother , Mrs Ann Skett , by his solicitors . |
| 10 | As usual , Maria Grazia answered and then yelled to his mother to pick up the extension phone by her chair , in the deep underwater gloom of the living room . |
| 11 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 12 | There was some story about her and Claire 's grandmother having a set-to and she had the baby too early — anyway , my father-in-law never spoke to his mother again . |