Example sentences of "of [pos pn] mother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A friend of my mother 's runs up the clothes for me , but I want to learn how to use a sewing-machine , ’ she says . |
| 2 | With lots of beer and home-made bread and cheese and ham and some of my mother 's special cakes and — ‘ |
| 3 | The way to convince this Matron of my mother 's extreme need of a hospital bed is not through any show of carelessness on my part . |
| 4 | I always left the dollop of jam in the middle of my mother 's puddings until it was the last mouthful . |
| 5 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
| 6 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |
| 7 | There was a string of seed pearls my father gave me , and two rings of my mother 's and a brooch or two — but nothing worth a lot of money . ’ |
| 8 | Some of the items on my own agenda for spiritual direction over the past two or three years have been : lifestyle — being overbusy and needing to rediscover a rhythm where prayer finds its right place alongside a full teaching and pastoral ministry ; bereavement and particular aspects of my mother 's death ; reading ; pain in prayer ; spiritual warfare ; a major decision . |
| 9 | For the first six months of my mother 's pregnancy , I was assumed to be indigestion . |
| 10 | This was especially true of my mother 's view of Gary , and vice versa . ’ |
| 11 | All this may seem a little behind the times to the modern generation and to feminists , but I recognize that it was the way of my mother 's and father 's world . |
| 12 | As an encore Carl played one of my mother 's favourite pieces — ‘ O sole mio ’ . |
| 13 | My aunt , the last survivor of my mother 's family , had lost her sister the previous year , and I helped her to arrange for the sale of most of the contents of her house , and for her own establishment in a club . |
| 14 | I tried water and one of my mother 's Marcel wave grips , a bulldog grip with extra teeth , curved like a miniature coathanger . |
| 15 | Thank you , QP , for all the kindness you have shown to me over the time of my mother 's illness and death . |
| 16 | I awoke in deadly terror , and the next morning I received the news of my mother 's passing . |
| 17 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 18 | I was already aware at the age of eleven of my mother 's political background : she had been an active Communist until 1965 . |
| 19 | He found one of my mother 's earrings down the side of the back seat and he just sat there staring at it . |
| 20 | My sister ate , but I refused , not out of sacrifice nor because I was resisting temptation ( I firmly believed that meat would make me ill , as my mother said ) , but because I knew — though this formulation is the adult 's rather than the ten-year old 's — that the price of the meal was condemnation of my mother 's oddness , and I was n't having that . |
| 21 | I have few clues that would let me construct a picture of my mother 's childhood , that would explain her denial of mine as my own , and the rage that came with that denial . |
| 22 | Since the resumption of my mother 's upwardbound course in social orienteering , her purchasing patterns had undergone a profound change . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's even better from the terrace of my mother 's house and the bomb damage does n't show too badly . |
| 24 | Sarah was the daughter of my mother 's eldest sister , Janet , who had trained as a doctor and was married to a psychoanalyst . |
| 25 | Syl was more of my mother 's generation than my own but it had never occurred to me before that he and she and Lili must all have been young at the same time . |
| 26 | There was a small summer-house at the bottom of my mother 's garden , half wood , half glass . |
| 27 | Mother Joseph seemed utterly remote , her voice lost in the clamour of my mother 's voice , my mother 's certainty that only marriage represented sanity , security , good behaviour in a dangerous world of hostile winds and people who were ‘ not one of us ’ , talking to themselves . |
| 28 | She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water . |
| 29 | But I had no notion of time — or of my mother 's needs I felt only that I was being abandoned . |
| 30 | I 'd never heard any of my mother 's friends talk like that . |