Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do wish you 'd make some effort to grow up , ’ said my mother before she could stop herself , for she did n't want her future son-in-law to know how much I could irritate her . |
| 2 | ‘ Poor people , ’ said my mother after they had gone . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course he would have married her , he was very devoted , ’ Aunt Kit said , deceiving herself , I-think , since he made no attempt to see my mother after she had resigned from the college and come home to her sisters . |
| 4 | They 'd expected me to bring things belonging to my mother that they could share out , but there was hardly anything . |
| 5 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 6 | You know , I was embarrassed to tell my mother that I was pregnant , because it showed that I had had sex . |
| 7 | I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long . |
| 8 | Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse . |
| 9 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 10 | Anyhow , all this time Naylor was trying to tell my mother that I was a big lad now , but when I did n't turn up all day Saturday , he and my father had their work cut out in trying to calm her . |
| 11 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 12 | It was no less incongruous for me to live with my mother than it was for Syl to live with his , or Nour with Marie Claire . |
| 13 | ‘ Camille 's much more like my mother than she is me . |
| 14 | Aunt Lyallie must have been needling my mother while I was away , because one day she suddenly asked me , with tremulous anxiety : ‘ Why do n't you get married , Jim ? |
| 15 | Finally , I resolved to have a birthday party like other children , and I nagged my mother until she gave in . |
| 16 | Mr Ross finished speaking on the phone , then looked carefully at my mother and me . |
| 17 | By this time my mother and me were getting on just a little bit better . |
| 18 | He told us that one silent dinner-time , and left my mother and me alone immediately afterwards . |
| 19 | In the summer of 1924 , during my first year at Eton , Ras Tafari , later to be Emperor Haile Selassie but at that time Regent , paid a State Visit to England and invited my mother and me to call on him in London . |
| 20 | Recently it occurred to my mother and me that it would be foolish to go riding alone without any sort of personal insurance for the rider . |
| 21 | But basically my mother and I have always been very close . |
| 22 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 23 | One middle-aged daughter put it this way : ‘ I suddenly realized that my mother and I had changed roles . |
| 24 | My mother and I were evacuees in Cumberland , a few hundred miles north . |
| 25 | ‘ I was always close to my mother and I like being around women . ’ |
| 26 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 27 | I came out of the orphanage to go and live with my mother and I found myself one of the family of six living in one room , the house was a four roomed house plus a scullery . |
| 28 | ‘ We sat in the train , my mother and I , waiting to get into France . |
| 29 | My mother and I brought her up and she brought herself this low . |
| 30 | When we arrived on the island , my mother and I followed Greta up to the house . |