Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] my mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So has my mother , though she does not put him as high as I do . ’ |
| 2 | Advanced age had by now somewhat mellowed my mother , with the result that I enjoyed my visits to the palace , for when the subject was other than myself she could be stimulating and amusing company . |
| 3 | I only knew my mother and grandmother and life was not easy — we often went hungry . |
| 4 | Not only did my mother regularly quote them , but on joining my public school for my very first term , the house I was in was actually punished for slack behaviour the previous term — when I had not even been at the school ! |
| 5 | Yes , he worked at the House , and so did my mother . |
| 6 | And so did my mother . |
| 7 | So did my mother when I told her . |
| 8 | All did and so did my mother 's side , they came from the farm up the L up the Loch I mean , that 's where my mother came from . . |
| 9 | My father died , and two months later so did my mother . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been in already to see my mother . |
| 11 | But I just thought my mother wanted to be specially nice to me . |
| 12 | I 'll tell James I 'm going back home to see my mother . |
| 13 | Though she is an American tourist , she looks elegant in her high Italian boots and I think , I can always know my mother by the briskness of her gait and the suede upon her feet . |
| 14 | You deliberately fixed my mother with a glassy stare and frightened her out of her wits . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , I can still see my mother at the urn . ’ |
| 16 | The second one : having got over the actual evacuation and the idea that I probably would n't ever see my mother again , being evacuated in itself was great . |
| 17 | At lunch I was sad and subdued , and I could hardly face my mother 's and father 's happy faces , or the rather more knowing glances of Aunt Lyallie , who I later discovered had put my mother wise to many things . |
| 18 | I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages . |
| 19 | But I still have my mother , three sisters , a sort of sister-in-law , and four nieces . |
| 20 | I loathed my father 's new house , which seemed always to smell of damp washing , but her visit had clearly enlivened my mother . |
| 21 | I nearly gave my mother a nervous breakdown . |
| 22 | The two leaves and the gates had gone long since , for it possibly dated from the sixteenth century — nevertheless there was a distinct something about it and Mr. Hibberd , the antique dealer often asked my mother if she would consider selling . |
| 23 | He never really accepted my Mother , who had the temerity to marry his son , but was nonetheless as overjoyed as my parents when , after four years , I was conceived . |
| 24 | That was that , for if I now refused my mother would see to it that I regretted my foolishness . |
| 25 | Rob Wilson 's courtesy and kindness is legendary and many years ago he indirectly helped my mother to hook her first salmon . |
| 26 | From the age of seven I had always wanted to be a missionary and I well remember my mother returning from a missionary meeting in the village to hear me say that was what I hoped one day to be . |
| 27 | ‘ I just do n't understand , Madame , ’ Ellie confessed , ‘ I never even knew my mother . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That night I cried so much — I never felt so far away from anything I knew and I 'd never missed my mother so much in my life . |
| 30 | Well erm I remember when my father would never give my mother any money . |