Example sentences of "mother have say " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the mothers had said ‘ I felt happy because today is my first visit to this clinic . |
| 2 | My mother has said many times in our adult life that although she loved our father and should have stood by him , as far as Richard was concerned , ‘ she could not help herself ’ . |
| 3 | " Every other mother has said , well if it was my daughter , I 'd have known . |
| 4 | What did your mother have to say then Julie ? |
| 5 | Her mother had said nothing to her , of course , but every glance , every cup of tea was full of unspoken reproach . |
| 6 | ‘ He ca n't knock a nail in a wall , ’ his mother had said before they married . |
| 7 | ‘ Take a train , ’ his mother had said . |
| 8 | Jean-Paul thought of what their mother had said when he had his farewell interview with his brother . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're determined to make a lady out of her , ’ Mother had said . |
| 10 | His mother had said that it was all very well to mock but she had stood many long hours at auctions all over the city finding the right pieces . |
| 11 | He was , as her mother had said for twenty years , the laziest codder God ever put breath into , but Claire loved him , and he loved her as if she were his own . |
| 12 | She knew that she had made an impression on Nicky , simply by the way he had looked at her when he and his mother had said goodbye . |
| 13 | What his mother had said was true . |
| 14 | Nellie 's last few words stayed in Fred 's mind and later , in the comfort of the cosy front room above the dining rooms , after Maisie had left , he was moved to speak to his young wife about what her mother had said to him . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd taken someone else home , and my mother had said : ‘ What on earth do you see in him ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Oh it 'll be such fun , ’ their mother had said when she kissed them good-bye at the station . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's part of the adventure , ’ Carrie 's mother had said , and not just to cheer them up : it was her nature to look on the bright side . |
| 18 | He had little enough to go on : someone anti-Republic , anti-Irish , his mother had said , but who ? |
| 19 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 20 | ‘ Then we 'll have Jennifer and Christopher , ’ my mother had said in a barely controlled fury . |
| 21 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 22 | My mother had said to Lili one day that she thought I was marrying Syl because he was so much older than me and would take the place of my father . |
| 23 | Sarah told Joe what his mother had said , and they spoke about Chris and Maureen . |
| 24 | Rachaela 's mother had said this to Rachaela over more trivial offences . |
| 25 | " Look , " his mother had said , making him watch with her while a tide spent itself . |
| 26 | He played fair , though , her mother had said of him generously . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh yes ’ her mother had said with a smile of-surprisingly-reminiscence ; ‘ the dashing types usually are in the end . ’ |
| 28 | Fifteen and a half , her mother had said . |
| 29 | So far none of the houses they had seen qualified as commercial properties , and Juliet began to have a sinking feeling , remembering what her mother had said . |
| 30 | ‘ Next year we 'll take some time off and go to Italy together , ’ her mother had said . |