Example sentences of "mother was [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So your mother was regarded in the neighbourhood as someone who knew how to treat illnesses ? |
| 2 | Mother was born into a Quaker family living at Lathbury , a hamlet near Cotherstone , went to a Society of Friends boarding school and later attended a course on dairy work run by the North Riding County Council at Helmsley . |
| 3 | ‘ Unlike my father , who had to work for his money , my mother was born into a very wealthy family . |
| 4 | Tilda had at first elaborated her story , saying that her mother was looking for a new Daddy , but her observation , quick as a bird 's flight , showed her that this was going too far , and she added that she and her sister prayed nightly to Our Lady of Fatima for her father 's return . |
| 5 | The Guardian reports that 25 baby sharks ( in this case Tope ) were being cared for at the Sea Life Centre at Hastings after their mother was netted by a fisherman . |
| 6 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 7 | Gerda 's mother was living with a man to whom she was not married . |
| 8 | An oppressively dominant all-American mother was followed by the horrors of the first world war and , later , the traumas of marriage to Dorothy Cavendish . |
| 9 | And when my mother was baking in a huge ovenware basin , then she 'd have the the erm the flour and the the erm what do you call it that made it rise ? |
| 10 | Her mother was killed in a train accident and her father , without looking at her , for he very rarely looked at her , told her that she would continue at the local school . |
| 11 | A BABY girl delivered after her pregnant mother was killed in a road accident was fighting for her life last night . |
| 12 | She took Martha 's hand and together they went to the terrace where her mother was resting on a new cushioned lounger . |
| 13 | Her mother was resting on the sofa , reading a magazine . |
| 14 | In the final condition , the mother was hidden behind a metal screen so that she could neither see nor be seen by the pair in the observation room . |
| 15 | Algy suddenly realized that her mother was engaged in an elaborate pretence that he was a New Zealander . |
| 16 | Their father had been arrested ; their mother was isolated in an area cut off by fighting . |
| 17 | As it was , she was fortunate your mother was accepted by the social worker . |
| 18 | Perhaps when pregnant with me , my mother was hit on the head by a ‘ No Vehicular Access ’ sign , and her understandable anxiety transmitted itself to my foetal subconscious . |
| 19 | Kyle 's mother was pushed over the wall by the impact . |
| 20 | In one , the infant 's mother was placed behind a clear screen so that the male and infant could see her and she could see them . |
| 21 | His mother was standing in the doorway , beckoning to him . |
| 22 | ‘ Explain your meaning , my son , ’ his mother was saying in the disapproving tone generally reserved for others . |
| 23 | Von Karajan had been a member of the Nazi party , and saw no reason publicly to mourn musicians who had been persecuted ; Abbado by contrast is a left-winger whose mother was imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish child . |
| 24 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 25 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
| 26 | Young girl eleven year old killed her outright , and the mother was found along the street and she 's seriously ill ! |
| 27 | Pigs stood for the figures that lounge in the shaded wood of Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Whistler 's mother was transformed into a black cow . |
| 28 | Pigs stood for the figures that lounge in the shaded wood of Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and Whistler 's mother was transformed into a black cow . |
| 29 | The pup 's mother was attracted to the beach by his presence . |
| 30 | His mother was talking to the police at the time , but she insisted on dressing him herself , and told everyone not to touch him . |