Example sentences of "mother [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Start by concentrating on one person , perhaps addressing your mother or your best friend and then , when you see them smiling back and you gather confidence , turn to the rest of the audience . |
| 2 | Not something that the press , my mother or my estranged wife had any influence over . |
| 3 | There was no picture of his mother or his murdered brother Stefan . |
| 4 | He had been defending a woman who was accused of driving a car at a mother and her two-year-old child . |
| 5 | A MOTHER and her two-year-old son died in a house fire in west Belfast early yesterday . |
| 6 | IN an apparent racial attack , black gunmen wielding AK47 rifles yesterday sprayed bullets at random at white motorists near Johannesburg , killing a mother and her 14-year-old son and seriously wounding three other people . |
| 7 | ‘ O Mary , mother of sorrows who knows so well a mother 's anguish , intercede I pray you for this sorrowing mother and her innocent son … ’ |
| 8 | This is a warm and homely property run by a mother and her two sons . |
| 9 | In a churchyard at Bilston in Staffordshire stands a memorial to a mother and her two infant children , who all died within a period of three weeks in the winter of 1847 ; they are described as ‘ all victims to the neglect of sanitary regulations specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town . ’ |
| 10 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 11 | A BRITISH mother and her two daughters were almost certainly among 54 victims of the air disaster at Faro , Portugal . |
| 12 | A SINGLE mother and her two children have been evicted from their home just two weeks before Christmas . |
| 13 | A MOTHER and her two children were mown down by joyriders as they waited at a bus stop . |
| 14 | Police hunting the killer of a mother and her two children have discovered a body which may be that of the missing father Dennis Garvey . |
| 15 | A mother and her two children had to have a hospital check up after their car crashed into the central reservation on the A19 . |
| 16 | A MOTHER and her two children escaped from their blazing house in The Bank , Barnard Castle , yesterday . |
| 17 | A MOTHER and her two children escaped from their blazing house in Barnard Castle yesterday . |
| 18 | After the separation the children had lived with the mother and her new man friend . |
| 19 | Parents hold ‘ conversations ’ , even with very young babies , as the following ‘ dialogue ’ between a mother and her two-month-old daughter clearly shows : |
| 20 | Surrounded by a sea of mud , a mother and her handicapped son refuse to move . |
| 21 | A mother and her young daughter were taken to hospital for a check-up after a fire at their home in Romaine Park , Hartlepool . |
| 22 | Yet , the physical demands of numerous pregnancies too closely spaced may have maleffects for the mother and child , and commencement of childbearing before the woman is physically mature may represent a serious risk to health and life for the mother and her young children . |
| 23 | A mother and her four children have been badly hurt when a train hit their van on an unmanned level crossing . |
| 24 | Edna , torn between duty to her sick mother and her small charge , looked at Liza agitatedly , ‘ But Miss Celia , ’ she began . |
| 25 | A single mother and her teenage daughter , the mother 's latest boyfriend and the girl 's first love and the young man who just wants someone to care for . |
| 26 | When her mother and her beloved sister Janie died in 1886 , Mary 's last links with home were broken : ‘ Heaven is now nearer to me than Britain , ’ she wrote . |
| 27 | A mother and her three babies had been killed in an attack on a bus in Israel . |
| 28 | A MOTHER and her three children died in a fire at their home last night . |
| 29 | Photographs of a mother and her three daughters , aged 10 , seven and three , have been etched in the marble of one almost finished grave . |
| 30 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |