Example sentences of "mother [vb past] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | My mother grabbed me at the very edge of the roof , just before I toppled the two storeys to the street . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |