Example sentences of "when [pos pn] mother [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When my mother left him the topaz , Vitor vowed he would save it until he met his soulmate , ’ the older woman explained . |
| 2 | A BABY boy had an astonishing escape when his mother dropped him from the balcony of a ninth-floor flat . |
| 3 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 4 | The child wo n't get out of bed when his mother calls him in the morning : so he misses the school bus , is late for school and is punished by his headteacher . |
| 5 | He would not wave when his mother spotted him . |
| 6 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |
| 7 | He gave a roar of rage when his mother pulled him back , saying : ‘ Now behave yourself , Junior , or this is the last time I 'll bring you into the supermarket . |
| 8 | When his mother rigs him out in a pretty pink frock to wear to school ( ‘ What 's a frock ? ’ said my son . |
| 9 | The delicate poetry of the atmosphere William seeks to establish is disrupted not only by that noisily symbolic iguana but by such clumping speeches as Shannon 's explanation that his problems began when his mother punished him for masturbating . |