Example sentences of "her mother [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's very bad , is it ? ’ her mother asked the young man in a worried voice . |
| 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 | When she was eight she was taken by her mother to see the Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre . |
| 4 | Tess helped her mother move the big bed against the church wall . |
| 5 | Dot watched as her mother applied the shiny flame-red lacquer to each toe-nail . |
| 6 | Sheila talks to her mother about the situation and her mother says the social workers are quite right ; Sheila was heavy-handed with the children and has had this coming to her for a long time . |
| 7 | Maura watched as her mother checked the little girl from head to toe , shaking her head and tutting as she did it . |
| 8 | Now , as Judith started to help her mother prepare the Sabbath-evening meal , she continued to avoid mention of Molly 's letter . |
| 9 | She called on her mother to leave the little green park , leave neutrality and passivity , and come to her aid ; she called on her grandmother to leave the grand study , to leave scientific fact and come out here and save her . |
| 10 | But her mother had the same sort of chin . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her mother waved the 20-year old off , and she set sail for England . |
| 13 | In 1864 the family moved to St Leonards , where Florence helped her mother visiting the sick . |
| 14 | Her mother believes the British Riding Society should look at alternatives to riding hats . |
| 15 | Her mother poured the last cup of tea , stirred it vigorously , picked up her slice of bread and butter , took a mouthful , chewed it , and then , " Suit yourself , " she said . |
| 16 | As Judith finished cleaning out the hen for the next day 's dinner , she made room on the kitchen table for her mother to prepare the Friday-night traditional meal of gefilte fish . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Her mother answered the first call on February 2 when Cardwell gave the name Tara and asked Tricia to call her back . |
| 19 | After thought , she asked her mother to bring the remaining Potters — Bill and Frederica — to Christmas dinner in the cottage . |