Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother [modal v] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever my father reprimanded Richard , my mother would defend him there and then , right or wrong . |
| 2 | My mother used to call him the Sage in bloom , ’ she added , ‘ when he was chasing women , that was . ’ |
| 3 | When he strayed , his mother would shove him back into position with her foot as she harped . |
| 4 | His mother would find him still at it when she came down to breakfast in the morning . |
| 5 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 6 | In the late evenings his mother would take him by the hand for walks , and would play the concertina to him when they got home . |
| 7 | His mother would introduce him as ‘ my darling son , Nigel — he 's such a talented writer , you know , and his marriage is on the rocks , poor dear . |
| 8 | He probably needs to get lost so often so that his mother will find him and remember to tell him that she loves him . |