Example sentences of "mother 's [noun sg] and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they put something round the mother 's tummy and they can see the heart beat beating , whereas we , if we wanted to know if the baby was alright and er it was n't getting distressed you 'd just put a , a cloth on the mummy 's tum and put your ear down to it and hear it that way . |
| 2 | And the ‘ milk tree ’ , as they appropriately call it , represents in their minds , and just as readily in ours , a mother 's milk and its source , her breasts . |
| 3 | The baby can certainly suffer complications if deprived of mother 's milk and it might well be claimed that talk of its missing its mother is a special language-game pointing only to the source of the deprivation , but Singer is certainly not using the phrase with this in mind . |
| 4 | ‘ My mother 's sister and her husband , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Apricot was my mother 's fantasy and my mother was an alcoholic who deserted me . |
| 7 | John , her brother aged 6 years , was mother 's favourite and she had become concerned that her husband was undermining her authority with Jenny during the day when she was at home with her . |
| 8 | She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real . |
| 9 | And then his grandfather died , and Leonard was faced with other traumas : his mother 's remarriage and its unhappy dissolution . |
| 10 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 11 | For example , he would have been interested in the fact that the English word ‘ uncle ’ can be used in speaking both of one 's mother 's brother and one 's father 's brother while in Swedish , for instance , two different words are used . |
| 12 | According to such a theory , if we , in English , call both our mother 's brother and our father 's brother by the same term — ‘ uncle ’ — it is because these two relatives are , to us , the same ‘ kind ’ of relative , and that probably the fact that we use the one word causes us to see them in that way . |
| 13 | my mother 's cardigan and no-one came . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When he describes a mother 's death and her child 's bereavement , heaven knows you do n't need a picture . |
| 16 | On balance , therefore , despite the mother 's co-operation and her wish for improvement , it is likely that any rehabilitation plan would be likely to fail . |
| 17 | Jack thought of his mother 's anguish and his stepfather 's injuries and anger rose in him like a demon . |
| 18 | On 15 November 1988 he issued a writ claiming that his disabilities are attributable to negligence on the part of the medical staff who attended his mother 's confinement and his birth . |
| 19 | Pro-choice groups were in favour of a liberalization of abortion but felt that the distinction being made between the mother 's health and her life was invidious . |
| 20 | He picks me up in his mother 's car and we drive through Colonia Escalon to a roundabout where cars park beside Snack stalls . |