Example sentences of "[verb] his mother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Prince Richard were to marry , he would need his mother 's formal consent , and the tradition in the family was that matters of gravity were always discussed face-to-face and in private . |
| 2 | He still saw Irving Layton , and they decided to put their hands to playwriting ; which reinforced his mother 's concern ! |
| 3 | He has his mother 's characteristics , if anyone 's , and his mouth and nose are a different shape altogether . |
| 4 | While she felt sure she would enjoy his mother 's company , she was reluctant to encourage an association which could involve further contact with him . |
| 5 | Charles found his mother 's body in a bedroom at the luxurious thatched house . |
| 6 | He even ended up inventing women — he is a very good story teller — to distract his mother 's jealousy from Veza , the amazing woman under whose spell he fell ( and who , in part three of the autobiography , he marries ) . |
| 7 | He maintained an interest in acting and adopted his mother 's name , Walcott , when he appeared as the black merchant-navy boy in the film A Taste of Honey . |
| 8 | ‘ But , ’ he went on , ‘ David has suggested that we should all borrow his mother 's house outside Florence at Easter . |
| 9 | To clear himself he would have to implicate his young brother in the embezzlement of a large amount of money from the family business , it would break his mother 's heart . |
| 10 | The man , who was married with three children , was about to visit his mother 's house for lunch in Fernwood Street in the Ormeau Road district when the killers struck . |
| 11 | He noted his mother 's fluttering glances across at her daughters , and he winced , as the understanding pierced him that the men were oblivious to him . |
| 12 | I noticed his mother 's Stradivarius violin on a shelf , a few crucial inches out of reach . |
| 13 | ‘ Little Billy , ’ came his mother 's voice from the kitchen . |
| 14 | The unexpected arrival four days beforehand of her son Ferdinand " Bongbong " Marcos was seen by some as upstaging his mother 's highly publicized return . |
| 15 | He looked as though by being born he had sapped his mother 's strength and left her a used-up husk . |
| 16 | To rebut his mother 's allegations , Pedro Collor subsequently consulted medical specialists and was passed mentally and physically fit . |
| 17 | He could vaguely remember his mother 's face , her constant presence as she sat by his bed seemingly day and night , her smiles as he began to get better . |
| 18 | She remembered that Seb had said to Gloria that swimming was not ‘ their thing ’ , but Antony Royd was supposed to run the fastest mile in the county and Mark Fountains- Abbot cheatingly borrowed his mother 's eventer for the cross-country and just , according to Gloria , sat there . |
| 19 | He poured his mother 's ashes in the place she is now and I am absolutely positive that he knows now she is not coming back . ’ |
| 20 | He particularly admired his mother 's one-armed chauffeur . |
| 21 | In 1921 , with a governor 's scholarship , he started electrical and telephony engineering studies at the Imperial College of Science and Technology , entering on the second year of the course to help his mother 's finances , and consequently was compelled to sit the far harsher external students ' examination for the first-class honours B.Sc. |
| 22 | Despite an early passion for natural history ( he had used his mother 's linen cupboard as a combined zoo and museum ) his first impulse was to train as a civil engineer , hoping thereby for opportunities to travel . |
| 23 | Yanto parked the bike in the small alley which separated his Mother 's cottage from the Post Office and stood back to admire the machine again . |
| 24 | Michael Dibdin attends a post-mortem ; Todd McEwen recalls his mother 's blindness ; a Jeanette Winterson story dissects a lost lover ( a real anatomy of melancholy ) . |
| 25 | His father certainly never replaced his mother 's love . |
| 26 | It is a moving end to a moving story for the son of a Tyneside lorry driver who first began wearing his mother 's clothes at the age of eight and soon after began the inner turmoil which has caused him so much anguish . |
| 27 | ‘ Then I may go , maman ? ’ asked Prince Richard gleefully , having again overheard his mother 's last words . |
| 28 | On October 29 1989 , just as he did every Sunday , 17-year-old New Yorker Donald White trundled his mother 's laundry basket to the local Wash-O-Rama . |
| 29 | The boy who puts unwanted chocolates , sweets , nuts and raisins and chewing gum into the trolley at the checkout can not put his hands to mischief if he is at the other end of the checkout using them to put his mother 's groceries in the box ( see page 111 ) . |
| 30 | The classificatory system can be conveniently illustrated by the patrilineal Omaha Indians among whom a man calls his mother 's father , mother 's brother , mother 's brother 's son , and mother 's brother 's son 's son by a single term . |