Example sentences of "my mother 's [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always left the dollop of jam in the middle of my mother 's puddings until it was the last mouthful . |
| 2 | My father , on the other hand , never went to church though he never denigrated my mother 's choice and approved of his children being raised as God-fearing . |
| 3 | ‘ My mother 's affairs and your personal problems are nothing to do with any English solicitor . |
| 4 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
| 5 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 6 | I kicked pebbles ahead of me on the path up from my caravan to my mother 's hotel and , with each ‘ thwok ’ , my terrible adolescent idealism was refuted . |
| 7 | My mother 's mischief and spiritual fortitude spun out into the fabric of the unknown . |
| 8 | Apricot was my mother 's fantasy and my mother was an alcoholic who deserted me . |
| 9 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 10 | Getting taken to the doctors and getting needles stuck in you erm things like um being fed cod liver oil , things like being hit for doing things which I thought were quite legitimate like pruning my mother 's geraniums and stuff like that . |
| 11 | In the following conversational fragment , we shall say , for example , that speaker A uses the expressions my uncle and he to refer to one individual and my mother 's sister and she to refer to another . |
| 12 | ‘ My mother 's sister and her husband , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Thank you , QP , for all the kindness you have shown to me over the time of my mother 's illness and death . |
| 14 | I swear it , on my mother 's milk that we shared . |
| 15 | I thought we 'd got such a good start , knowing my mother 's name and where I was born . ’ |
| 16 | She reminded me of my mother when I ( or she ) was very young ; the perfume upon my mother 's neck when she leaned over to say goodnight , a pearl of jade clinking warmly and lightly upon my chest , Mommy on her way to the Village Gate , to meet some dark Europeans , to catch an excellent set of jazz . |
| 17 | ‘ I am Russell 's friend , my mother 's son and the man who will vanquish the past for you . ’ |
| 18 | People , my real friends , had respected me for coping so well after my mother 's death and for putting up with my financial situation at home . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's even better from the terrace of my mother 's house and the bomb damage does n't show too badly . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 … |
| 21 | My mother 's aunts and cousins in Italy do n't know where she is and I would n't tell them if they asked . |
| 22 | Mother Joseph seemed utterly remote , her voice lost in the clamour of my mother 's voice , my mother 's certainty that only marriage represented sanity , security , good behaviour in a dangerous world of hostile winds and people who were ‘ not one of us ’ , talking to themselves . |
| 23 | There is therefore no reason to believe that in such a system these two relatives are equally my mother 's husband or that they both have similar sexual rights over my mother . |
| 24 | No one else had ever spoken of love in my mother 's drawing-room and I imagined that Lili 's conversation would cling to the curtains and the cushion covers like tobacco smoke so that the room would never be the same again . |
| 25 | Lots of titled guests were always invited and once , in my mother 's time as cook , princess Mary came to dinner . |
| 26 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |
| 27 | But so then my mother My mother 's father and the father of Golden Rule Mayor Jones of Toledo , Sam Jones , born in were first cousins . |
| 28 | my mother 's cardigan and no-one came . |
| 29 | I strained to hear my mother 's words as she answered the phone , but they were muffled , brief , as if responding to a death . |