Example sentences of "his mother [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 2 | His mother had wanted him to be put into care and felt that she was unable to relate to him . |
| 3 | His mother had given him contrary messages . |
| 4 | No wonder his mother had shut it out of her mind ; it was all absolutely and completely ludicrous . |
| 5 | And as his mother had warned him , Rose refused . |
| 6 | It had shifted from its deep root and was loosened so that all the ‘ bad ’ — as his mother had called it — was now gathered into the volcanic pimple . |
| 7 | How his mother had made her pay ! |
| 8 | His mother had made him take me out to see the sights and he was bored and resentful . |
| 9 | Even his mother had noticed it . |
| 10 | The day before , his Mother had asked him to change the wireless accumulator because the reception was beginning to fade . |
| 11 | When 10-year-old Robert left his school gates , a man approached him saying that he was a family friend and that his mother had asked him to pick Robert up from school . |
| 12 | ‘ Kindly clean upstairs , ’ he ordered , no matter what his mother had asked her to do . |
| 13 | His mother had dug him hard in the ribs . |
| 14 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |
| 15 | When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . |
| 16 | His mother had waved him on his way , not his father . |
| 17 | His mother had done them — her name was in the corner . |
| 18 | From devotional vids broadcast by the Ecclesiarchy , and memory of a stained-glass window in a chapel where his mother had taken him when much younger to drone prayers , he recognized a Space Marine … |
| 19 | ‘ We were building up our home , ’ his mother had told him . |
| 20 | His mother had told him that even grown-ups were frightened of going into The Forest of Sin . |
| 21 | When his mother had told him , as she always told any man interested in Edith , about the bastard child , he had just smiled . |
| 22 | He longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |
| 23 | Asik knew that blaming God for everything was not right , his mother had told him so , but who else could have been so cruel ? |
| 24 | Worse than that was the knowledge that his mother had found it , presumably in the loft . |
| 25 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |
| 26 | He was still uncertain how much his mother had left him but thought it was probably between £40,000 and £50,000 . |
| 27 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |
| 28 | She wondered how he 'd be if his father had not driven off or if his mother had shown him more affection . |
| 29 | Stella heard about O'Hara from the child playing Slightly , so called because when his mother had abandoned him his vest had been slightly soiled . |
| 30 | His mother had thought he was dead but he had later recovered . |