Example sentences of "and [pos pn] mother [verb] a " in BNC.

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1	My father was a landscape architect , and my mother ran a nursery .
2	There was much competition during the war as to who could come up with the best bomb story , and my mother had a great time telling this one to all the aunties , especially as it was only due to her nagging that I had n't been in my bed at the time .
3	We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment .
4	‘ My father was the driest comedian you ever heard , and my mother had a wonderful singing voice — much better than mine , ’ Lynne says .
5	And he and my mother had a disagreement about this and er the result was that my father became very ill and I went home to Grandma .
6	When the war ended my father remained in the Army , and my mother became a dressmaker to her friends and the neighbours .
7	As I 've told you , my father was a landscape architect , and my mother started a small business growing herbs and old-fashioned roses to start with .
8	She had days off for Hickstead and her mother sent a note to say , ‘ Deirdre has her bilius attack and wo n't be coming in .
9	The fact is she ran away from her home in late 1962 and her mother heard a few months later that she was living as a common street girl near King 's Cross Station .
10	Her father died when she was a young girl , and her mother re-married a Mr. Hanmer who was a staunch Royalist .
11	Svetlana and her mother made a genuine impression on me because they were the first woman and child to arrive here from Poland .
12	In another local bar , student Betsy Goodman says : ‘ Cindy does n't keep in touch with anyone and her mother has a real attitude now . ’
13	Fierce Eyes and his mother made a wall of snow around the mound .

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