Example sentences of "mother [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not something that the press , my mother or my estranged wife had any influence over . |
| 2 | There was no picture of his mother or his murdered brother Stefan . |
| 3 | He had been defending a woman who was accused of driving a car at a mother and her two-year-old child . |
| 4 | A MOTHER and her two-year-old son died in a house fire in west Belfast early yesterday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 7 | After the separation the children had lived with the mother and her new man friend . |
| 8 | Parents hold ‘ conversations ’ , even with very young babies , as the following ‘ dialogue ’ between a mother and her two-month-old daughter clearly shows : |
| 9 | Surrounded by a sea of mud , a mother and her handicapped son refuse to move . |
| 10 | A mother and her young daughter were taken to hospital for a check-up after a fire at their home in Romaine Park , Hartlepool . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Edna , torn between duty to her sick mother and her small charge , looked at Liza agitatedly , ‘ But Miss Celia , ’ she began . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A YOUNG DRIVER sped off after knocking down a 49-year-old mother and her 25-year-old daughter at Arnold , Notts . |
| 16 | A Kurdish mother and her sick child at Isikveren refugee camp on the Iraq/Turkish border , April 1991 . |
| 17 | Edward III began his reign at the age of fourteen as the protégé of the queen mother and her ambitious collaborator , Mortimer , but their grip on affairs was quickly loosened by the manner and policy of their government . |
| 18 | The emergency team made Echo front page headlines when they rescued the 27-year-old mother and her eight-month-old son . |
| 19 | Tracy lives with her mother and their young daughters , born within twelve months of one another . |
| 20 | ‘ Me and Mother and our old gentleman . ’ |
| 21 | I told her some Cliff Top stuff , about my sort of overprotective mother and my absent father . |
| 22 | Eventually , I recover , and come to enjoy my mother and my old school friends , and the easy , sunny inertia of L.A. I swim every day and I love the blue sparkle of the pool , the glare of the sun and the sky on the water , and myself cleansed and pristine in the chlorinated wet of my morning routine , pre-smog , post-dope ; boys with blond moustaches saying , ‘ Have a good one ’ ; my baby blue Rent-a-car . |
| 23 | ‘ He works very hard and then there 's the garden and the children and his mother and my old aunt . |
| 24 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 25 | We have already seen that depressive or manic responses may be shown to be related to the problem of the son 's relation to the mother and his contradictory desire to be devoted to her as the ideal mother of hunter-gatherer prehistory and yet to be free of her as the phallic , dominant mother of primal agriculture . |
| 26 | THE Prince of Wales says he really valued his chats with the Queen Mother and his late uncle , Lord Mountbatten . |
| 27 | PRINCE CHARLES told yesterday how he valued conversations with the Queen Mother and his late uncle , Lord Mountbatten . |