Example sentences of "[vb mod] [to-vb] [pron] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , my father drank a lot , and when he drank , he used to hit my mother , and me too , sometimes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I used to give my mother the lot , she used to give me a shilling back . |
| 4 | As a child I remember I used to call my mother at home , ‘ mammy up the raw ’ , and grandma was ‘ mammy down the raw' … |
| 5 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |
| 6 | And but her her her grandmother used to go used to go and so she used to take my mother with you see . |
| 7 | She knows that she ought to ring her mother , that there is still a faint possibility that she might ring her mother , but that possibility is already fading , and as the admonitory red glare of the clock clicks silently to 20.20 it gasps and dies within her . |
| 8 | ‘ I think , before you start leaping to conclusions , you ought to ask your mother about it . |
| 9 | As he took an eager gulp from his glass , he decided that Hank ought to tell his mother what he had been doing . |
| 10 | ‘ I think you ought to tell your mother . ’ |