Example sentences of "[was/were] her mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curtains were her mother 's choice , as was the bedcover and the carpet . |
| 2 | Mary Kingsley : Imperial Adventures by Dea Birkett Macmillan , £25 IN January 1892 Mary Kingsley , approaching 30 , was her mother 's nurse in Cambridge . |
| 3 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 4 | There was her mother 's choice of furniture , walnut in this case , consisting of a wardrobe , a marble top wash-hand stand and a wooden-headed bed . |
| 5 | She looked at the woman , this woman who was her mother , this woman who lived behind a façade , who would n't let her husband into her bed and had caused him to take a mistress . |
| 6 | Selene was her mother 's child , a fact which held no value now . |
| 7 | What was her mother talking about ? |
| 8 | It was her mother who had done wrong . |
| 9 | Rella used to tell me stories , about places she 'd been , only sometimes I thought she meant herself and it turned out it was her mother she was talking about . |
| 10 | She wished her father was home but he was very rarely around much these days , and when he was her mother fought with him . |
| 11 | His first wife was interviewed , as was her mother , who talked much more extensively . |
| 12 | Still , it was her mother she must phone and that by default . |
| 13 | She knew then it was her mother who must have been hurt . |
| 14 | Where was her mother , for a start ? |
| 15 | It was her mother who had told her about Timothy 's frequent visits to the village of Yelton , and Tipper who had confirmed her mistress 's story , adding that Amsterdam was a gormless idiot and Topaz Chilcott a dirty slut . |
| 16 | Was her mother some sort of witch , trying to lay spells ? |
| 17 | Two hours later , as they sat watching an Irish comedian telling jokes that she herself considered quite unsuitable for family viewing , jokes that she hoped were incomprehensible to Celia and her grandparents , the telephone rang : it was her mother , to report that Liz had not telephoned . |
| 18 | It was her mother . |
| 19 | How would she judge this peculiar entity which was her mother ? ’ |
| 20 | It was her mother . |
| 21 | Rosalba was drawn to her above all the other Marys in the province , far and above the Madonna of the Kneading Board , who had been washed ashore with the face of Our Lady in its grain , and who was her mother 's favourite , and hung in replica above her bed . |
| 22 | If she was her mother 's sort then she would never never get among the life that everybody else seemed to get . |
| 23 | And she was her mother 's sort . |
| 24 | She wished more than anything that she could say yes , or at least explain that if it had been left to her she would have come with all the will in the world , but there was her mother . |
| 25 | She 's in the basement watching ‘ the telly ’ ' — he picked out the words sarcastically — ‘ though she did glance away from the screen just long enough to tell me that it was her mother 's bingo night . |
| 26 | Well , it was her mother really . |
| 27 | It was her mother 's fiftieth birthday , quite a milestone , and Anne had emphasised how much she wanted it to get there on time . |
| 28 | She tried to remember Isabelle objectively — wondering how she would have regarded her if they had simply met as strangers , but all she could call to mind was her mother 's warmth , and gentleness and capacity for love , and a slow anger began to build in her . |
| 29 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 30 | Strolling quietly together down the gravel paths of the old-fashioned Elizabethan knot garden , which was her mother 's pride and joy , Laura found the evening taking on a completely different complexion . |