Example sentences of "[verb] my mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shall I take a knife and tear my mother 's breast ? |
| 2 | And he was going again , but when he wanted his clothes to go my mother had cut them up and burnt them ! |
| 3 | At this precise moment , thought Helen , I hate my mother . |
| 4 | Her brother was William Tallentire and he became my mother 's grandfather , which meant that my mother and father were akin . |
| 5 | You see , my father drank a lot , and when he drank , he used to hit my mother , and me too , sometimes . |
| 6 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 7 | I had heard my mother 's friends sometimes whispering ruefully of The Change , but I saw the loss of innocence as the greatest and the worst change . |
| 8 | I had heard my mother and Robert come in and had gone to sleep much later . |
| 9 | But at last I learned to know what a lie was : to induce my mother to stop beating me I would lie — I would say , yes , I had lied and was sorry , and then she would whip me for having withheld the admission so long . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's no more peculiar than the other houses on the drive , ’ argued my mother , and she was right . |
| 11 | I got my mother to take me to the dentist every week so I could run away from it . ’ |
| 12 | I put two chairs together , sat down on one with Dawn and got my mother to sit on the other chair with the cat . |
| 13 | I mean , my husband has even at one point had to come into the bathroom , when I got my mother stuck in the bath er , could n't get her out , it was , it was him or the fire brigade , tha that was the choice , basically ! |
| 14 | Possibly they were accepting my mother 's offer ; more likely they , like her , lost patience . |
| 15 | ‘ Portrait of Dorian Grey , ’ interrupted my mother triumphantly . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you think my mother 's really evil ? ’ asked Scarlet . |
| 17 | It 's confusing — and I do n't think my mother would want me to — ’ Juliet swallowed and looked up at him . |
| 18 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If you 've got some jet , ’ said Scarlet , ‘ you could make my mother a necklace and earrings for Christmas . |
| 20 | That 's where he met my mother . |
| 21 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 22 | Well my my mother had five children with her previous husband and my father met my mother while this fella was ill and he eventually died with T B and my father married my mother and took on these five children i in , in South Wales . |
| 23 | Just the other month , I met my mother in Kensington High Street . |
| 24 | I used to miss my mother and father dreadfully when I was younger , and now I feel a certain amount of guilt that I need them so little , think of them so seldom . |
| 25 | They concerned my mother 's paternal grandfather who had spent a great many years in southern Africa — Natal and Cape Colony . |
| 26 | ‘ Ian 's going to London , ’ announced my mother to one and all . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm going to see my mother . |
| 28 | ‘ To see my mother , ’ said Gilly tightly . |
| 29 | I knew I had to go back to hospital but I just had time to see my mother and sister off and to help my father close up grandmother 's house and to see uncle Henry take her off to the station , with destination Somerset . |
| 30 | On one of our periods off duty we went to see my mother and father . |