Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pron] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 2 | Eleanor could be presented to his mother , even if Karen and Caroline and all the others could n't . |
| 3 | He could be apprenticed to his mother 's brother , surely . |
| 4 | And do n't you think it was flattering , in a way , to be preferred to my mother ? |
| 5 | Yes , you can tell them I 'll be speaking to my mother as soon as she gets back , tonight . |
| 6 | The £60,000 was finally invested in September 1992 and the income will now be sent to my mother as it arises . |
| 7 | COUNCILLORS are likely to consider whether the 11-year old girl at the centre of a Home Alone storm should be returned to her mother when she returns from her Spanish holiday , it emerged yesterday . |
| 8 | The panel decided that the W children should be returned to their mother . |
| 9 | When Rose recovered , Steve would be returned to his mother 's care , and the matron , for one , would not mind . |