Example sentences of "mother and [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 2 | Cos that 's during the First World War , you see , and erm , he did and so he said goodbye to us all and he said I 'm going up now to say goodbye to your mother and he ran up the street here to say goodbye to my mother . |
| 3 | Yet he had friends , the love of his mother and he lived a full life . |
| 4 | Waiting outside the room , Seb could hear the occasional moan of distress from his mother and he wondered what else they had discovered . |
| 5 | I played it to my mother and she stared at me in total disbelief . |
| 6 | He had a mother and she had been , since an early age , housemaid in Nicandra 's house . |
| 7 | Er no I can nae say that er er There is one I I think there there used to be a a lad up the road there I used to speak to his mother and she said he son was a French polisher . |
| 8 | The girl 's serious little face was delicate , rounded , promising that she would soon flower into at least as striking a beauty as her mother ; in an attempt to make her smile Joseph winked theatrically at her , but this made her draw closer to her mother and she continued to gaze gravely back at him with the curious , unselfconscious eyes of childhood . |
| 9 | He had already overtaken his mother and she did not know how to cope with the graded readers he brought home from school or his teacher 's request that she should hear him read . |
| 10 | In the following days and weeks my mother and I took turns to visit him every day ; we realized how much our presence meant to him . |
| 11 | My mother and I left the island at the end of the summer . |
| 12 | One middle-aged daughter put it this way : ‘ I suddenly realized that my mother and I had changed roles . |
| 13 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 14 | So went to Andre 's and had lunch there and went on to , to a , play ball , then er , there was called , and my mother and I had |
| 15 | That evening my mother and I felt vulnerable and very much alone , uncertain what steps to take . |
| 16 | Though I say it myself , your mother and I knew how to throw a party . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm his mother and I knew him . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I like your mother and I knew she badly wanted to stay . ’ |
| 19 | She went up the stairs , and my mother and I went after her . |
| 20 | During my stay my mother and I went to see Dr Agerholme . |
| 21 | Before she went back to London my mother and I went into town and bought a carpet , and pictures by Caldwell of African big game to hang on my walls . |
| 22 | Quite recently Jack , my mother and I went to see a film called Enemies : A Love Story , a story of three Holocaust survivors set in 1940s New York . |
| 23 | On May 6 Mother and I went the full complement of floors up to the very top of Telecom Tower , there to shake hands with Sir Dickie and to share a shuddering scaffolding ( I almost said erection — but I did n't ) with Michael Aspel , one of my all-time four minutes ' warning men . |
| 24 | ‘ Altar boy , then , after the British hanged my father in nineteen twenty-one , my mother and I went to live with my old uncle who was a priest in Belfast . |
| 25 | Then my mother and I went out to make ourselves feel better and spent lots of money . |
| 26 | We went in the Gra Grand just done the lounge at the Grand and when we had our first car and I went round to see mother and I said come on , we 'll go up to the , take you up to the Grand and have a drink . |
| 27 | Beautiful garden , , my mother and I said very well you , we will come for week here but we wo n't go out of this . |
| 28 | That 's right , , it 's a , it 's a , so my mother and I said we 're going back to that hotel , you know , were very , very kind of luxury type , so we went back to the hotel and my brother and I went into the room where we had a television view on the sea , very beautiful . |
| 29 | When we arrived on the island , my mother and I followed Greta up to the house . |
| 30 | My mother and I brought her up and she brought herself this low . |