Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] my mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | I strained to hear my mother 's words as she answered the phone , but they were muffled , brief , as if responding to a death . |
| 2 | If ever I 'd lost my mother , Of course , we were lucky we had our father and mother . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I preferred to resemble my mother , who had in my eyes , grace , wit , allure and dignity . |
| 5 | I was now drifting around in my own head , although I did see my mother rush in . |
| 6 | But I liked to please my mother and keep undisturbed the love that was between us . |
| 7 | I had seen my mother pregnant , and had been told that she was carrying a baby inside her , a little brother or sister for us all . |
| 8 | As I stood there my mind raced back to that time so many years ago when I had heard my mother say , ‘ I do n't love you , Nicky . ’ |
| 9 | I had heard my mother 's friends sometimes whispering ruefully of The Change , but I saw the loss of innocence as the greatest and the worst change . |
| 10 | I had heard my mother and Robert come in and had gone to sleep much later . |
| 11 | ‘ I had asked my mother one evening to cut my cheese entire , so that I might toast it , ’ he told Tom Poole : |
| 12 | I had left my mother and father and husband to go alone to a place which was completely unknown to me in order to live with people who were equally unknown . |
| 13 | ‘ I began to realise that you had wonderful qualities , though I had to convince my mother with something more than my own feelings and impressions . |
| 14 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You said you 'd seen my mother recently ? ’ |
| 16 | With all the work she had to do my mother could not do a sloppy job . |
| 17 | On one of our periods off duty we went to see my mother and father . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , they managed to send my mother to Oxford . |
| 19 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 20 | He telephoned to tell my mother , and she told me . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me , Dr Kent , I expect you know all the other doctors — the housemen , the registrars , I 'm not sure which one it was , but he went to see my mother as soon as she was admitted — ’ |
| 22 | I think he went to visit my mother and got incarcerated by accident . |
| 23 | Apparently he had told my mother and grandmother on Friday evening while they were having their meal . ’ |
| 24 | And he had begged my mother not to ever put me in the bank . |