Example sentences of "my mother [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother asks for that young musician of his , Tutilo , the one who has played and sung to her before , and helped her to sleep . |
| 2 | Her tone was flat and glum and my mother looked at her suspiciously . |
| 3 | Too quickly , for my mother looked at me as I put them on the table . |
| 4 | My mother looked after the chickens . |
| 5 | ‘ My mother looked like an angel , ’ said Evelyn softly . |
| 6 | My mother burst into tears when she saw them . ’ |
| 7 | When my mother got off the train we walked across the road to the bus stop , only to find the same man jumping on the Kirkby bus . |
| 8 | My mother glared at me suspiciously and told me not be so ridiculous . |
| 9 | ‘ What pleased me most about that , ’ he said , ‘ was that my mother knew about it before she died , so she could see I was getting somewhere . ’ |
| 10 | I was sick all night and felt terrible for two days , so terrible that my mother called in Dr Sambataro . |
| 11 | The form my mother filled for glasses |
| 12 | That 's what started it , I suppose — the way my mother felt about her . |
| 13 | I wonder now how my mother felt about that . |
| 14 | My mother thought about this for a moment until comprehension came to her , whereupon she changed the subject out of deference to my youth and inexperience . |
| 15 | I think my mother worried about those hair-raising moments in Treasure Hunt . |
| 16 | Erm , to , to , as , as , this , part of it , part of each other , Th Th Thursday , one horrific er erm , guest that my mother had in , in our house down in Gloucestershire , erm , she has a lot of clients , er erm , she 's an artist , erm , erm , this woman , erm , er , w er , went up to her bedroom , and erm , and was standing b b by the electric fire and fire , and erm , very nearly scorched her nightdress . |
| 17 | She is never left on her own as my mother stays at home when I go out , but she just waits on my bed and wo n't eat for food until I come back . |
| 18 | ‘ Because she found out my mother lied to her ! |
| 19 | ‘ My mother keeps to her bed , ’ Miss Merchiston informed her ‘ You will meet her directly . |
| 20 | There must be a world of delight beyond Roundhay , where Victor Sylvester always plays and all the men are gentlemanly and such wonderful dancers and my mother spinturns for ever in their arms or elegantly allows them to light her cigarette . |
| 21 | I walked in a daze trying to keep warm as strange fantasies plagued my mind : Selkirk chanting in a field of white roses all stained by blood ; my mother crouching on a step as she used to when I would play and run to her — but , when I drew closer , she was an old cripple , eyes open , face frozen blue . |
| 22 | ‘ My mother ran to the balcony and beneath her was a huge piece of wreckage from the plane still blazing . |
| 23 | My mother disapproved of him because she was his contemporary , and she thought , ‘ This man 's been married three times , why would n't he love a beautiful nineteen year-old girl ? ’ |
| 24 | My mother laughed at this , scornfully ; but in fact she gave us Christmas and birthday presents of clothes and shoes , and the record player came into the house in this way , as my eleventh birthday present . |
| 25 | My father read only cowboy books , dogeared and disposable , until my mother jeered at him for wasting his time . |
| 26 | I put two chairs together , sat down on one with Dawn and got my mother to sit on the other chair with the cat . |
| 27 | My mother glanced at the clock before looking at the window to ascertain that the garden was already retreating into night , and drew the curtains . |
| 28 | My mother hovers on the brink of life , not knowing whether her heroic struggle will be worth even a fraction of the effort she expends . |
| 29 | Now my intimations of the complicity between The Fat Controller and my mother grew into the utter certainty that it extended even into these murky areas . |
| 30 | While I was still labouring away , my mother screamed in a rich contralto . |