Example sentences of "[unc] mother have " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the day of the funeral , recalled in a quasi-fictionalised form 18 years later , was no less memorable or searing : Breavman 's mother had stayed alone in her room leaving ‘ Nursie ’ to get the children ready . |
| 2 | Little did I know how right he was because the first thing that happened when David 's mother had a bad day , she would call me everything under the sun . |
| 3 | Nigel 's mother had sent him some After Eights so he offered Eleanor one . |
| 4 | A story was circulating around school that Frankie 's mother had been very ill and one of his aunts was responsible for him having nits in his head and a dirty body , torn pumps , bitten nails and no dinner money . |
| 5 | My father 's mother had been born in 1862 in Wroxton , three miles north of Banbury . |
| 6 | During John 's brief stay in Paris , his father remarried ; John 's mother had married again in June 1946 , becoming Mrs Aubrey Martin . |
| 7 | Henry 's mother had , he recalled bitterly , thought that he could ‘ do better ’ than Elinor as well . |
| 8 | At that time , Mary 's mother had a strange , possessive relationship with another woman ; an affair which young Mary was only just beginning to understand . |
| 9 | He had taken her off the streets and given her a home because he was besotted with her ; the home that Sarah 's mother had kept clean and cheerful even when her health was failing . |
| 10 | Tony 's mother had made them for this occasion , and though recipes vary slightly the end result is a large currant biscuit . |
| 11 | Tamar occupied the seat where , for over thirty years , Stephen 's mother had sat . |
| 12 | Once in the park , Joyce 's mother had stopped to talk to another young woman while Joyce herself sat watching some birds pecking at the remains of a sandwich that someone had dropped on the path . |
| 13 | Cathy 's mother had been a martyr to her gruff , domineering husband . |
| 14 | Perhaps Vincent 's mother had put pressure on him , or perhaps he had his own reasons for softening the blow . |
| 15 | Sien 's mother had helped him sweep up the plaster littering the place . |
| 16 | Benny 's mother had bought cones of sweets in Birdie Mac 's shop , each one wrapped in different-coloured paper . |
| 17 | As a doctor , Brian realised that his wife 's mother had evidently suffered from the most acute form of agoraphobia . |
| 18 | I knew that Ramadan was a time for sharing and that shared feasts were not unusual , but the Sheikha 's mother had surpassed herself . |
| 19 | Darren 's mother had recently been diagnosed as diabetic and had a period of several weeks in hospital . |
| 20 | He did , and when he eventually learned that the child 's mother had committed suicide and that out of compassion the rag woman had taken her into her house to save her being put in the workhouse or farmed out , again they both agreed that the rag woman had worthy motives . |
| 21 | And Kate 's mother had put her arm around him and pulled him towards her . |
| 22 | Laura 's mother had been admitted to the workhouse with her three children a month earlier . |
| 23 | Just eighteen months previously Diana 's mother had given birth to John , a baby so badly deformed and sickly that he survived for only ten hours . |
| 24 | This was what the surveyor had told the first buyer to whom Jarvis 's mother had offered the School in 1976 . |
| 25 | This would be the second time Mike 's mother had looked after Catherine . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's part of the adventure , ’ Carrie 's mother had said , and not just to cheer them up : it was her nature to look on the bright side . |
| 27 | Julie 's mother had become increasingly concerned that the abdominal pain Julie had complained of the previous evening had worsened over-night , preventing her from sleeping . |
| 28 | Caroline 's mother had apparently found another key which fitted . |
| 29 | Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out . |
| 30 | But this time , Antonia 's mother had rung to ask whether Antonia might stay at the Jardines ' . |