Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [pron] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've sometimes thought she was perhaps my mother , ’ she suddenly said in a rush and then paused , turning the statement into a question . |
| 2 | Once she had assumed it was somehow her mother 's fault . |
| 3 | So it was just My mother used to see me across the road with my shilling to pay for my pinny . |
| 4 | Have you forgotten that I was once their mother 's maid ? ’ |
| 5 | The fixed point in his life was always his mother . |
| 6 | It was always his mother . ’ |
| 7 | The problem was still his mother and the prefectural doctors , who continued to believe that he was schizophrenic and should be hospitalized . |
| 8 | The woman was roughly her mother 's age , the face rounder and fatter with hair on the upper lip which her mother did n't have . |
| 9 | It was while filming Ensign Pulver that he received news that June , the sister who was really his mother , had cancer . |
| 10 | When he got out , he had the feeling he was n't wanted and that as an infant he was a problem to his family — a feeling which he expressed publicly long before he became aware that his sister was really his mother . |
| 11 | If my aunt Elaine was really my mother , then I do n't . |
| 12 | The one thing I could never do was please my mother . |
| 13 | Her years in London bad merely strengthened her desire to live there for the rest of her life , and while she was there her mother seemed , most of the time , to be no more that a dreadful past sorrow , endured and survived . |