Example sentences of "her mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kayathiri Vino Sangaralinigam was 10 years old when she was arrested in Jaffna District , Sri Lanka , in 1987 with her mother and two older sisters . |
| 2 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 3 | The young woman remembers how her mother would leave home at 5am day after day , and wait in the Marmoura forest near where the King used to play golf in an effort to plead with him for her husband 's life . |
| 4 | Her mother tried to persuade the woman who had received the letters to let her talk with this guard ; a man who was actually in touch with her husband . |
| 5 | An artist 's feelings of separation from her family , as seen through a series of fragmentary communications between the artist and her mother . |
| 6 | Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told . |
| 7 | ‘ Sarah 's pretty , ’ said her mother , awarding first prize to her sister . |
| 8 | Her mother had both children late in life , and was wonderful for the first six years of Jay 's life . |
| 9 | Jay remembered the sun in the garden , the paddling pool , her mother meeting her after school , face lighting up with love and joy as her little girl pelted out of school like a tornado , seized her mother 's hand and dragged her home down the street , read to her , played with her , woke her with a kiss , read her a bedtime story . |
| 10 | Jay remembered the sun in the garden , the paddling pool , her mother meeting her after school , face lighting up with love and joy as her little girl pelted out of school like a tornado , seized her mother 's hand and dragged her home down the street , read to her , played with her , woke her with a kiss , read her a bedtime story . |
| 11 | Her mother 's moodswings began to terrify her , and she would slow to a careful frozen walk as she turned into their street . |
| 12 | If there was a car outside the house , she relaxed and speeded up : a car meant visitors and her mother charming , not mad and spiteful . |
| 13 | When she finally screamed it out at her mother four years later , her mother said : |
| 14 | When she finally screamed it out at her mother four years later , her mother said : |
| 15 | Her sixteenth birthday they had set the dining room table — her family usually ate in the kitchen — and her mother had imposed a reign of terror in her preparations . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's not like you to be ill , ’ her mother said . |
| 17 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
| 18 | ‘ Language ! ’ her mother would cry when Rita or her brother Bob said even ‘ crikey ’ or ‘ blimey ’ . |
| 19 | Her mother 's voice would fill with outrage . |
| 20 | ’ But those years he would go into his study afterwards with the coffee her mother made , to smoke his pipe and look over a case , and he shut the door . |
| 21 | She sees : not Harriet … but her mother . |
| 22 | The gestures of such pastoral characters as Lise and Colas in La Fille Mal Gardée have already been noted ( -see page 100 ) as well as that of Lise churning and helping her Mother to spin . |
| 23 | ‘ Something like this makes you believe in yourself that much more , ’ said Toleafoa , whose father is a consulate-general for Western Somoa , but who qualifies to play for New Zealand because of her mother . |
| 24 | In fact , it 's Pamina that really grows in this production , from her first encounter with Monostatos ( 'a real pantomime villain' ) , through the cataclysmic change in her relationship with her mother , the Queen of the Night , from blind devotion to ultimate aversion . |
| 25 | By the end , with an extended sermon on the emptiness of individualist ethics , he is pleading for a return to the benevolence in public affairs which Thatcher can not supply by nature of having been denied her mother 's breast , given the wrong sort of potty training , etc . |
| 26 | The only really solid piece of evidence is the fact that Thatcher made no mention of her mother in her Who 's Who entry . |
| 27 | She also referred to her mother in a slightly dismissive way in the course of two reported interviews . |
| 28 | ‘ When Thatcher was on the pot , it is my belief she was peremptorily required by her mother and grandmother to do her duty , ’ writes Abse , and proceeds to build a gigantic edifice on the assumption : ‘ A mother who is peremptory when the child wants satisfaction at the breast , is the same severe mother who denies her child the pride in her own first creation , her faeces , ’ he explains . |
| 29 | But this does not stop Abse constructing an elaborate thesis based on Thatcher 's ‘ sphincter morality ’ , for which her mother , Beatrice , should really take the blame : ‘ Thatcher succeeded in initiating the electorate into a new form of gambling : her personal need to end the earlier constraints which she had endured , outlawing the joys of shitting and coprophilia , drove her to open the doors of the Stock Exchange , and end its exclusivity . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No , you are probably not allowed to leave the country with dogs , ’ her mother says . |