Example sentences of "[pron] mother when [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A good time ? ’ asked my mother when we returned . |
| 2 | So did my mother when I told her . |
| 3 | Thus I was , albeit subconsciously , prepared for his death , and I recall saying to my mother when she broke the , news one morning that " I thought something like this might happen . " |
| 4 | My mother when she wanted anybody to turn off the wireless used to say . |
| 5 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 6 | COUNCILLORS are likely to consider whether the 11-year old girl at the centre of a Home Alone storm should be returned to her mother when she returns from her Spanish holiday , it emerged yesterday . |
| 7 | A carer , worn out by the unending demands of her task , shakes her mother when she spits out her tablets . |
| 8 | For many years , Marek wrote , he had believed his mother when she said his father had been killed in a car accident . |
| 9 | He was going to face up to his mother when he got home and have it out . |
| 10 | This personage reflected , somewhat grimly , that the first thing he should have to teach his little charge would be to appear to address himself to his mother when he spoke to her — especially not to make her such an Improper answer as that ( 6 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ But where 's your wife , dear Angel ? ’ cried his mother when he arrived . |
| 12 | I said to me mother when we start , Go to work Monday , holiday Tuesday , go to work Wednesday and holid and holiday Thursday and then Friday . |
| 13 | For instance : ‘ You should lose weight ’ , ‘ You should n't be so inarticulate at work ’ , ‘ You should n't pursue money as a goal ’ , ‘ You should be kinder to your mother when she phones for a long chat . ’ |