Example sentences of "mother had been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled what he knew about them , that their father earned a precarious living as a painter whose innocuous , prettified watercolours were sold in cafés and tourist shops along the coast and that their mother had been desperately ill with cancer . |
| 2 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 3 | Her mother had been quite specific about it . |
| 4 | A story was circulating around school that Frankie 's mother had been very ill and one of his aunts was responsible for him having nits in his head and a dirty body , torn pumps , bitten nails and no dinner money . |
| 5 | John 's mother had been very ill over Christmas and over the New Year she had been admitted to hospital . |
| 6 | His mother had been suitably vague . |
| 7 | Her mother had been so excited at the attention paid to her , almost as if it had not been Louise but she herself who was attracting the attention of the young gentlemen . |
| 8 | She understood now why she had always felt extra-special and why her mother had been so strict with her and taught her things about life and men and getting babies . |
| 9 | Their mother had been forever running after her with a pencil box or an exercise book or a threepenny piece for church collection , and the maid had turned up a lost doll , a coin , a glove in every corner . |
| 10 | In her time Mother had been almost as |
| 11 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 12 | While accepting that the trip was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity , her mother had been less happy about it . |
| 13 | Now , of course , she knew her mother had been too vain to acknowledge a daughter whose age would be an indication of her own . |
| 14 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 15 | And of course er I knew something about America , my mother had been there and er we had some c I had eighteen first cousins in America when I went there . |
| 16 | Anyway , she seemed to cheer up a bit listening to their trite old remarks about it coming to everybody , and after that her mother had been all right and seemed to accept it . |