Example sentences of "mother [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would be the perfect mother whom others would notice and admire . |
| 2 | There are , there are other ways to come by children , erm I have a relationship with a man who has three children erm he 's been married , he 's divorced , separated , and I do n't feel that I 'm replacing the children 's own mother , I feel like I 'm not even stepmother , I 'm just their friend , get on very well with them , and we we share I share mothering , if you like , with their own mother whom they see . |
| 3 | She knew her limitations better than she knew her worth , and she taught in a private school because it gave her a little more latitude to come and go as she wished — an important point , since she cared for an old mother whom eighty years had made exacting . |
| 4 | She looked like your mother whom you 'd loved , but whom you 'd lost — and while Doreen was near your mother seemed to be not so far away . |
| 5 | It 's called the ugly duckling , but Mr Summerfield loved it because the woman looked like his mother whom he adored . |
| 6 | All of this would have been enjoyable — or at least bearable — without miserable old mother me having the meanest migraine in living memory . |
| 7 | In her study My Mother My Self ( Fontana , £5.99 ) , psychologist Nancy Friday puts her finger on how I felt when she says that , at such a time , ‘ The new mother finds the need for her own mother increasing . |
| 8 | And erm my my mother my father was neutral about the whole thing . |
| 9 | But so then my mother My mother 's father and the father of Golden Rule Mayor Jones of Toledo , Sam Jones , born in were first cousins . |
| 10 | My mother my mother , my father was useless . |
| 11 | Oh my mother my mother was brought up with her grandmother in Llaneilian . |
| 12 | Mother I do n't need — the one who brought me up cost a lot in therapy to get over . |
| 13 | As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked . |
| 14 | ‘ After I got my degree I told my mother I could keep her now and she should leave my father . |
| 15 | My mother I can hardly see save as she is now while I am writing . |
| 16 | I 'd promised my mother I 'd buy her some new central-heating , and the only time it could be fitted was the next week , so I needed to be home for Monday when the workmen came round . |
| 17 | If I 'm not your mother I 'll be your godparent |
| 18 | ‘ No , and you 're not going to tell Mother I 'm here . ’ |
| 19 | Even when the carer is a relative , when dementia is the disease carers may feel as if the old person has in a sense already died and left them so that ‘ this is not the mother I used to know ’ . |
| 20 | Unlike my mother I can not draw anything but the curtains , so I was bottom of the class at this . |
| 21 | And with this interjection Aggie now beat her closed fist against the end of the settle as she added angrily , ‘ If she had acted like the friend that she was supposed to be to the mother I would n't be faced with this lot tonight . ’ |
| 22 | However , having been born and raised in England by an Irish father and an English mother I believe that I understand English attitudes quite well . |
| 23 | As a mother I am looking at this girl . |
| 24 | I mean , I remember when I told my mother I wanted to be a designer she said , ‘ Oh , that is a good thing , because it shows you are not a snob ’ . ’ |
| 25 | A single mother I met in Sheffield has got housing , but in a Dickensian block of flats , on the fifth floor , with no lift , a damp kitchen , bathroom and hall where the wallpaper seems to stand up only out of inertia because it is n't sticking to the walls . |
| 26 | And he was so happy that he said to his mother one day , mother I want to live for ever . |
| 27 | I looked after my mother I was the youngest of our family , and I did n't consider that I was doing something unusual , it was my duty . |
| 28 | Children die before parents unfortunately and have wills I let everything to my mother , Mother I leave everything to my son . |
| 29 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 30 | But because I did n't tell my mother I was coming here , I could n't get my British passport . |