Example sentences of "[subord] her mother [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it . |
| 4 | Dot watched as her mother applied the shiny flame-red lacquer to each toe-nail . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For many years she delivered the mail when her mother ran the post office . |
| 7 | 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 . |