Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Orkney , in fact — my mother was the only schoolteacher there . ’ |
| 2 | as if my mother was the child to be protected ! |
| 3 | If my mother was the constantly anxious sort , always worrying unduly about ‘ what will happen if … . ’ , then I may turn out to have learned this way of response myself . |
| 4 | ‘ My mother was the daughter of a regular army officer — a lieutenant-colonel in the North Staffordshires . |
| 5 | My mother was the sort of person who regards talking to yourself as the first sign of madness . |
| 6 | We felt a little like prisoners and missed our privacy and independence ; my mother was the most aware of this feeling as she was the one who was most at home . |
| 7 | My mother was the daughter of an English officer in the Indian police , who fell in love with a humble clerk in Jaffna and had the temerity to marry him . |
| 8 | My mother was the actress , you see . ’ |
| 9 | My mother was the only one was keen for me to have some sort of education . |
| 10 | My mother was the one that used to struggle and many a time she 's gone without herself you know . |
| 11 | Suppose what he read out to my mother was the truth ? ’ |
| 12 | My mother was the daughter of a butler . |
| 13 | Her mother was the original cockeyed optimist , Jo thought fondly , as her eyes strayed to the window . |
| 14 | The way she did her mother was the best , though , catching that tiny lisp she had and the way her English was just a little bit awkward . |
| 15 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 16 | Her mother was the one who was always at the centre of any gathering , it was her attention , never Peony 's they wanted . |
| 17 | But then both you and RIPPOE said that her mother was the same and always arrived late and so on for everything , so perhaps it is genetic ! |
| 18 | Her mother was the talented young painter , Livia Gandell . ’ |
| 19 | and unfortunately it was only about eight months before that she lost her mother , only her mother was the dominant feature of the family you see she kept them all together |
| 20 | His mother was the most important object in his life . |
| 21 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 22 | His mother was the only exception . |
| 23 | Marcel Proust was born in Paris , on the tenth of July , eighteen seventy-one , two months after the collapse of the Commune. erm His father was a well-known doctor , who seems curiously enough to have failed markedly to understand the causes of his son 's lifelong illness erm and his mother was the daughter of a Jewish stockbroker . |
| 24 | ‘ And your mother was the best horsewoman I have ever seen . |
| 25 | ‘ Your mother was the last . ’ |
| 26 | well your mother was the wood there was n't she really ? |