Example sentences of "mother [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | TONY WILSON 's win over Steve McCarthy in the British light-heavyweight title eliminator at Southampton last month , when McCarthy refused to continue after Wilson 's mother attacked him in the ring , has been officially ratified by the British Board of Control . |
| 2 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 3 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 4 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 5 | When he was fifteen his mother told him about the hanging . |
| 6 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 7 | A BABY boy had an astonishing escape when his mother dropped him from the balcony of a ninth-floor flat . |
| 8 | After what seemed like hours his tearful mother joined him in the hospital foyer . |
| 9 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 10 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 11 | Her mother called her from the kitchen , then appeared , wiping her hands upon her apron . |
| 12 | By the time I was fourteen I could n't wait to get away from that place and my mother took me to the hiring fair in the marketplace in Bishop Auckland . |
| 13 | ‘ My grandfather had signed his own death warrant , though only my mother knew it at the time . ’ |
| 14 | Tiare 's mother gave it to the mission . ‘ |
| 15 | In January 1866 , his young mother entrusted him to the hospital of Sta . |
| 16 | I came to Britain from Cyprus when I was six and , when I was 12 , my mother volunteered me for the job of interpreting for a pregnant neighbour who needed to talk to a doctor . |
| 17 | Sometimes his mother chased him through the apartment , striking at him while he dodged and ducked , crying , ‘ Look out Mom , look out now ! |