Example sentences of "mother [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Mother were the best of friends , and she knew that I was daft over dollies and wanted one so badly . |
| 2 | His mother was the most important object in his life . |
| 3 | ‘ Orkney , in fact — my mother was the only schoolteacher there . ’ |
| 4 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 5 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 6 | Her mother was the original cockeyed optimist , Jo thought fondly , as her eyes strayed to the window . |
| 7 | The way she did her mother was the best , though , catching that tiny lisp she had and the way her English was just a little bit awkward . |
| 8 | as if my mother was the child to be protected ! |
| 9 | If my mother was the constantly anxious sort , always worrying unduly about ‘ what will happen if … . ’ , then I may turn out to have learned this way of response myself . |
| 10 | ‘ My mother was the daughter of a regular army officer — a lieutenant-colonel in the North Staffordshires . |
| 11 | The death of the mother was the test of the family . |
| 12 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 13 | It is now generally accepted that Jesus 's mother was the sister of Elizabeth , the mother of John . |
| 14 | ‘ And your mother was the best horsewoman I have ever seen . |
| 15 | The mother was the centre of the household . |
| 16 | In severely ill children presenting to a referral hospital at 1670 m altitude the logistic regression prediction models we have developed indicate that for newborn infants and those up to 2 months of age history of cyanosis reported by the mother was the best predictor of hypoxaemia ; a respiratory rate of >=70/min,; retractions , and grunting were the best predictors in infants 3–11 months old ; and in children 12 months and older a respiratory rate of >=60/min; was the best predictor of hypoxaemia . |
| 17 | My mother was the sort of person who regards talking to yourself as the first sign of madness . |
| 18 | The wedding was held in 1920 at Mouthlock Methodist Chapel , at South Stainmore , where Mother was the organist and , much to her surprise and delight , the members of the chapel presented them with an inscribed silver teapot . |
| 19 | We felt a little like prisoners and missed our privacy and independence ; my mother was the most aware of this feeling as she was the one who was most at home . |
| 20 | Erm , er so of course there was always people coming to the house connected with the Co-op educational side , you know and erm I used to sort of you kn understand it all , mother was the treasurer and sometimes the secretary would come down to see her . |
| 21 | ‘ Your mother was the last . ’ |
| 22 | His mother was the only exception . |
| 23 | My mother was the daughter of an English officer in the Indian police , who fell in love with a humble clerk in Jaffna and had the temerity to marry him . |
| 24 | My mother was the actress , you see . ’ |
| 25 | Her mother was the one who was always at the centre of any gathering , it was her attention , never Peony 's they wanted . |
| 26 | The disapproving mother was the reason the actress called a halt to her liaison with actor Mithun Chakraborty a couple of years ago . |
| 27 | But then both you and RIPPOE said that her mother was the same and always arrived late and so on for everything , so perhaps it is genetic ! |
| 28 | My mother was the only one was keen for me to have some sort of education . |
| 29 | My mother was the one that used to struggle and many a time she 's gone without herself you know . |
| 30 | Her mother was the talented young painter , Livia Gandell . ’ |