Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] mother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed his mother 's Stradivarius violin on a shelf , a few crucial inches out of reach . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry I forgot my mother 's birthday . ’ |
| 3 | I heard your mother 's voice |
| 4 | And she thought , a little aggrieved : I do think Clelia might have told me , how could she assume that I knew her mother 's maiden name ? |
| 5 | An hour or so later I saw my mother 's green Metro , just about to turn out of the drive-way of Hamish and Tone 's house . |
| 6 | For Christmas , I had my mother 's nails ‘ wrapped and extended ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Every morning , ’ he writes , ‘ I left my mother 's place and went straight to Brion 's , we had a cup of tea and a puff and days after days I left for home at five … |
| 8 | You got your mother 's hard ears , and hard ears people never learn . |
| 9 | Then one day she found her mother 's pills while tidying her bedroom and , not having a firm grasp of the principles of contraception , swapped these for aspirins . |
| 10 | She found her mother 's wedding shoes , and her headpiece and veil as well . |
| 11 | There were no friends ; she found her mother 's circle dispersed , her father a middle-aged man . |
| 12 | Her daughter Brenda Robinson , of Middleton-in-Teesdale , told South-West Durham coroner Colin Penna how she found her mother 's body in a remote water tank on her parents ' farm . |
| 13 | She recollected her mother 's furious wobbling face : ‘ You 've got to pull yourself together . |
| 14 | She studied her mother 's tired face , seeming older than her fifty-two years . |
| 15 | She recalled her mother 's words , and her own reassurances . |
| 16 | She loathed her mother 's loathing of Mrs Hanney ; it made her shiver with horror . |
| 17 | He also visited Lurgan and the late Mrs Sleator once related how , as a very small girl in Lurgan on that day in 1902 , she disregarded her mother 's instructions that she was not to leave home ( ‘ I am still obstinate ! ’ she confided ) , went to the Town Hall where the General was speaking and saw him there . |
| 18 | Do n't forget last Christmas when you forgot your mother 's and we had to come dashing back for it , and it snowing like blazes . |
| 19 | She welcomed her mother 's suggestion of Dudley Poplak , a discreet South African-born interior designer who had furnished her own homes . |
| 20 | And then she heard her mother 's voice . |
| 21 | She heard her mother 's voice on the day when she had announced her engagement : ‘ Well , you 're thirty-two and if he 's what you want I suppose you know your own mind . |
| 22 | As she stepped indoors , she heard her mother 's voice . |
| 23 | She heard her mother 's slippers crunching across the sugar-strewn floor . |
| 24 | She heard her mother 's feet on the stairs and smiled . |
| 25 | She heard her mother 's voice on the other end of the line and felt weak and unsteady with relief . |
| 26 | And suddenly two shadows moved in the darkness of the hall , and she heard her mother 's voice , pitched high , frighteningly unfamiliar , a strained , cracked , alien voice . |
| 27 | She returned her mother 's kiss and said , ‘ Good luck . ’ |
| 28 | She inherited her mother 's practical skills and her artistic and literary interests from her famous father . |
| 29 | She dialled her mother 's number and nearly put the phone down when it started ringing . |
| 30 | She took her mother 's hands , they were cold and clammy . |