Example sentences of "that [pos pn] mother [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 2 | Perhaps Diana felt that her mother had been ignored or should have been the one playing hostess . |
| 3 | No-one ever told Artemis Deverill that her mother had been killed out hunting that fine October morning , knocked from her horse by the young Stanhope-Murray boy as he tried to thrust his way past her , jumping a hedge and instantly breaking her neck . |
| 4 | She had learned when she had held the first costume up against her , that her mother had been small , hardly , it seemed , an inch or two taller than Ellie was now . |
| 5 | Perhaps he was aware that her mother had been an actress and he was taunting her , she thought in panic , her pulse-rate increasing dramatically . |
| 6 | He knew that her mother had been a well-known journalist on the Washington Gazette before her marriage to Jared Tunstall , Sally-Anne 's father and a Yankee millionaire , who as the result of his fame as one of America 's so-called robber barons , and his friendship with King Edward VII and his circle , was nothing if not notorious . |
| 7 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 8 | He recalled what he knew about them , that their father earned a precarious living as a painter whose innocuous , prettified watercolours were sold in cafés and tourist shops along the coast and that their mother had been desperately ill with cancer . |
| 9 | When the young man was twenty he discovered that his mother had been boasting about how wonderful he was to all her friends . |
| 10 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |
| 11 | How could a loving son bask in the radiance of divine joy , indifferent to the knowledge that his mother had been cast out ? |