Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [pron] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could think only : It should be my mother sitting up there , with my brother beside her . |
| 2 | Two slender arms extended towards her and Martha realised that this must be her mother . |
| 3 | Jill returned , saying that it was Mrs Mellings , for her father , and it took Alice some moments to realise that this must be her mother , not the new Mrs Mellings , who at this moment would be already on her way to the pleasures of a weekend in Kent . |
| 4 | She must be their mother , Willie thought . |
| 5 | It must be his mother ! |
| 6 | Who might be your mother , |
| 7 | I expect that 'll be your mother . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That 'll be your mother , ’ James Abbott said . |
| 9 | ‘ From your description this could be your mother , ’ said the man from the Army Medical Corps . |
| 10 | But the famous scene of greedy eating in Tom Jones ( 1963 ) , in which Tom ( Albert Finney ) and Mrs Waters , aka Jenny Jones ( Joyce Redman ) — who may be his mother but luckily turns out not to be — rush through a huge meal in order to get to bed and ‘ devour ’ each other , actually replaces the sex scene which it appears to be prefacing . |
| 11 | Little Emily said : ‘ Who will be our mother now ? ’ |