Example sentences of "his mother [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balham-born Akram , who is studying for his A-levels , got the stage bug at the age of three when his mother taught him a few classical Indian dance steps . |
| 2 | To young to join in the usual share-out of meat after a kill , he had waited instead for his mother to give him a portion of hers . |
| 3 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 4 | For his 11th birthday his mother bought him a £200 BBC microcomputer . |
| 5 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 6 | He never earned a degree , but an allowance from his mother gave him the financial independence to devote himself to a career as writer . |
| 7 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |