Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother 's [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother 's house up in the hills is so , ’ he searched for the word , ‘ away … ’ |
| 2 | On subsequent visits , as she had grown bolder , Ellie had started trying some of her mother 's clothes on , first over her own dress , and then over just her underclothes . |
| 3 | She then replaced the bottle on the shelf above the sink , taking care to put her mother 's bottle back in the cupboard . |
| 4 | He remembered how , as a child , by dozens of small acts of perversity , he had brought his mother 's wrath down upon himself , so that she did at least notice his existence . |
| 5 | Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse . |