Example sentences of "mother 's [noun] [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] " 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 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 3 | He plucked the child from its mother 's arms before she could protest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I promise on my old mother 's teeth that I will never drink or take Bobby Charlton 's name in vain again . |
| 6 | It is possible to culture the early embryo and then return it to the mother 's uterus where it will develop normally . |
| 7 | Brenda 's cheeks still burned with shame when she remembered her mother 's insistence that she should visit Hoggatt 's to see where her daughter was going to work , although Chief Inspector Martin , the Senior Police Liaison Officer , had apparently thought it perfectly reasonable . |
| 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 | We walked to the boy 's mother 's house where I would stay while we worked on the bride house . |
| 10 | We could have found somewhere cheaper , or taken up Richard 's mother 's offer that she should buy a house in the suburbs and share it with us , but Richard had theories about the importance of a good , central address , as well as about the waste of nervous energy involved in travelling . |