Example sentences of "his mother [vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ? |
| 2 | At the time he had assumed that she had simply contacted the address on some pretext and discovered that he had n't been there , but it was only later , when the argument had blown over , that he remembered that the address he had given his mother had been vacant . |
| 3 | His mother had been silent when she first saw it , and his father had been angry at the lack of enthusiasm and had arranged to take Stuart fishing for a day to a small loch where he could borrow a boat . |
| 4 | His mother had been concerned about his weight for nearly three years and a previous admission for investigation of the cause had found nothing organically wrong . |
| 5 | Over the course of two months , Ben had started to eat at meal-times and his mother had been able to introduce more variety into his diet and increase the quantity offered . |