Example sentences of "[pron] mother and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Ross finished speaking on the phone , then looked carefully at my mother and me . |
| 2 | By this time my mother and me were getting on just a little bit better . |
| 3 | He told us that one silent dinner-time , and left my mother and me alone immediately afterwards . |
| 4 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 5 | Recently it occurred to my mother and me that it would be foolish to go riding alone without any sort of personal insurance for the rider . |
| 6 | But basically my mother and I have always been very close . |
| 7 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 8 | One middle-aged daughter put it this way : ‘ I suddenly realized that my mother and I had changed roles . |
| 9 | My mother and I were evacuees in Cumberland , a few hundred miles north . |
| 10 | ‘ I was always close to my mother and I like being around women . ’ |
| 11 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 12 | I came out of the orphanage to go and live with my mother and I found myself one of the family of six living in one room , the house was a four roomed house plus a scullery . |
| 13 | ‘ We sat in the train , my mother and I , waiting to get into France . |
| 14 | My mother and I brought her up and she brought herself this low . |
| 15 | When we arrived on the island , my mother and I followed Greta up to the house . |
| 16 | She went up the stairs , and my mother and I went after her . |
| 17 | My mother and I left the island at the end of the summer . |
| 18 | During my stay my mother and I went to see Dr Agerholme . |
| 19 | My mother and I moved between the enterprise zone of the bungalow and the camp where the caravans squatted , adopting a different manner and diction as we did so . |
| 20 | I had an argument with my mother and I just ran away from home and came here without telling her . |
| 21 | He came several times a year to have a glass of sherry with my mother and I always felt awkward in his presence , fearing that instead of ‘ Would you care for an olive ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You can go and see Mrs M , ’ said my mother and I wondered whether her sense of grievance towards me was inclining her to spite . |
| 23 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 24 | My father , my mother and I were often asked to spend Sunday afternoons in the country , but sometimes , unless a horse and cart were sent to collect us , we could not go because the families who invited us lived too far away . |
| 25 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 26 | My mother and I were in the garden . |
| 27 | That evening my mother and I felt vulnerable and very much alone , uncertain what steps to take . |
| 28 | In the following days and weeks my mother and I took turns to visit him every day ; we realized how much our presence meant to him . |
| 29 | My mother and I were terrified that my father would be picked out of the prison and shot . |
| 30 | Before she went back to London my mother and I went into town and bought a carpet , and pictures by Caldwell of African big game to hang on my walls . |