Example sentences of "mother and [pron] father " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this strange and sudden way Mary learnt that both her mother and her father had died . |
| 2 | There was precious little concrete to it , and she had probably hurt her mother and her father quite enough . |
| 3 | but she said but Pearl said what 's in them when they 're born what take after their mother and their father that 'll come out in the finish . |
| 4 | We discovered a strange fortuity : her mother and my father had been born in the same town of Dumfries and , moreover , we had a marriage connection — her cousin had married my cousin 's cousin ! |
| 5 | It belonged to my mother and my father . |
| 6 | My grandma kept saying horrible things about my mother and my father kept rambling on about how much he missed her . |
| 7 | I understood very quickly that if you are easy you get everything you want , so I got the message quickly that if my mother and my father had never to hear about boring things like teachers , school and things like this , I could get everything I wanted . |
| 8 | Yes , with my mother and my father . |
| 9 | Yet his family was totally dependent on him , not just his brothers but his mother and his father , so he could n't buck the system ; the pressure to rein him back in and continue the status quo and what was making money won over . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed softly , and wondered if her mother and his father had been among them . |