Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] mother [verb] the " 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 | In the early hours of that same day , June 6th , a little while before her mother heard the official news , Liza Carrow was woken by the sound of throbbing engines in the skies above south Wiltshire . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | Her charms increased every day , not only in my eye but in the eyes of all who beheld her , for my mother took the greatest delight in her waiting maid . |
| 8 | When my mother saw the room , her jaw dropped . |
| 9 | ‘ When my mother died the only persons to whom I owed duty were my lord who had followed the cross , and Marian , my lord 's daughter . |
| 10 | Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it . |
| 11 | Dot watched as her mother applied the shiny flame-red lacquer to each toe-nail . |
| 12 | She stood like a dummy as her mother gave the last twitches to her wedding dress , trying to ignore the excitement that buzzed through the small house . |
| 13 | For many years she delivered the mail when her mother ran the post office . |
| 14 | Social work came naturally to an intelligent unmarried Edwardian middle-class young woman , especially when her mother visited the local workhouse once a week for half a century and when her elder sister Olive was the warden of the Lady Margaret Hall settlement in Lambeth . |
| 15 | He woke up only when his mother slammed the front door as she went out to church . |
| 16 | Young Gerald assumed his maternal surname when his mother inherited the estates . |
| 17 | He was still fuming when his mother entered the room . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |