Example sentences of "a mother [verb] her " in BNC.
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| 1 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 2 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 3 | The performance begins with a mother teaching her daughter a nursery rhyme . |
| 4 | She had watched from the window as they walked down the jetty , anxious as a mother sending her children off on their first day at school . |
| 5 | A mother supplies her baby with the purest of all food , i.e. her breast milk . |
| 6 | A mother does her level best to warn them about the ever present dangers |
| 7 | A dreadful pregnancy or birth that produces a healthy baby can make it difficult for a mother to allow her baby to cry even for a few minutes . |
| 8 | GE NU The sorrow that overtakes a mother knowing her child will be born dead |
| 9 | A mother takes her eye off her toddler in a shopping mall and he is murdered . |
| 10 | At that moment my feelings of love for him became somewhat abstract , like a mother bandaging her little boy 's playground cuts and sores . |
| 11 | We speak of a mother sacrificing her life for her children . |
| 12 | A mother advising her daughter to beware of men is likewise in the normal course of things . |
| 13 | In the old days , incidentally , when a mother discovered her daughter was the innocent young victim of the lust of a rich old man , there were several obvious remedies . |
| 14 | What does it profit us to list the number of times a mother rubs her baby 's back when we really want to know if she did it with affection or out of nervousness ? |
| 15 | A MOTHER ignored her young daughter 's pleas for help during a two-year reign of terror in which her step-father raped and sexually abused her , a court heard yesterday . |
| 16 | A MOTHER poisoned her nine-month-old baby with salt , a court heard yesterday . |
| 17 | On the rare occasions when one of these mice stops to contemplate the future , it is nearly always a mother hugging her child , staring directly out of the frame with baleful black-ringed eyes in an otherwise expressionless triangular white face . |
| 18 | Like a mother scolding her lost child , I thought , after he 's come back safe : just like Perkin with Mackie . |
| 19 | Would the promise of a complete stranger to pay a mother to maintain her illegitimate child be binding on the promisor ? |
| 20 | When someone eats a snack while mentally absorbed in other things — perhaps a mother grabbing her own meal in between attempts to coax food down a baby , or a viewer eating a TV snack while totally involved in the latest beastly plots of ‘ J.R . ’ |
| 21 | A MOTHER lost her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against corporal punishment in school yesterday , but the judgment is not expected to lead to a reintroduction of that form of disciplinary action in Britain . |