Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] mother 's [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They concerned my mother 's paternal grandfather who had spent a great many years in southern Africa — Natal and Cape Colony . |
| 2 | So he invited my mother 's unmarried sister , my aunt , to come and live with us . |
| 3 | Dot stroked her mother 's other white leg stretched out along the bed , with the varnish drying on the toes now like five scarlet flames . |
| 4 | One younger girl ( herself an accomplished user of Jamaican Creole ) found her mother 's Barbadian a source of amusement : Right , my mum right , when she goes — like some English people go " can you go and get me a glass of water please " mum go — " get me a piece o' waata please " — not [ ] , " [ wa:ta ] " an' 'piece " . |
| 5 | What I was really doing , up there in my private darkness , while below he played my mother 's old jazz records and new ones he 'd bought , why I really went so early was to have longer imagining him into his father . |
| 6 | She studied her mother 's tired face , seeming older than her fifty-two years . |
| 7 | She recollected her mother 's furious wobbling face : ‘ You 've got to pull yourself together . |
| 8 | And it was n't until she had knelt by the heap of earth that signified her mother 's unconsecrated grave that she had stopped crying . |
| 9 | Louise Jermy 's health was permanently impaired by the long hours she spent helping her mother mangle clothes , and Kathleen Woodward recalled her mother 's bitter complaints about washing : ‘ Wash wash wash ; it 's like washing your guts away . |
| 10 | He noted his mother 's fluttering glances across at her daughters , and he winced , as the understanding pierced him that the men were oblivious to him . |
| 11 | He particularly admired his mother 's one-armed chauffeur . |
| 12 | Although Valentin seems to have passed his exams by his own efforts ( though no doubt crammed by special tutors ) and achieved a respectable degree at Imperial College , London , his sister and brother followed their mother 's educational model more closely . |
| 13 | Juliet kissed her mother 's cool cheek . |
| 14 | She inherited her mother 's practical skills and her artistic and literary interests from her famous father . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Kate 's heart twisted with pain as she saw her mother 's familiar , guarded expression dissolve into fear . |
| 18 | He was wondering whether the slaves who had been shipped to America had looked like this , when he felt his mother 's gentle touch on his shoulder and turned to find her smiling fondly at him . |
| 19 | While my father supported my mother 's right to Sanatogen as a necessity , he indulged in his antiseptic baths . |
| 20 | So did his mother 's magnificent fortitude . |
| 21 | He also gave his mother 's new name , as she had recently remarried . |
| 22 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 23 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 24 | He also continued his mother 's religious benefactions , and was largely responsible for the splendour of the great Border abbeys at Melrose , Kelso , Jedburgh and Dryburgh . |
| 25 | You got your mother 's hard ears , and hard ears people never learn . |
| 26 | Hari damped a piece of flannel and carefully washed her mother 's lined face . |
| 27 | She held her mother 's hot fidgety hand and stroked it kindly . |