Example sentences of "on his mother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 2 | Back in 1986 the president accused the Ewes of mounting a failed coup against him , claiming that the plot involved Ghana 's leader , Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings ; Mr Rawlings is an Ewe on his mother 's side ( his father was Scottish ) . |
| 3 | So as Harry now leaves home for good on his mother 's birthday , he can not really explain what is happening to him . |
| 4 | Joey seemed bewildered as he put one large hand on his mother 's shoulder . |
| 5 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 6 | Again he wondered about Tina 's anger and the tension between her and her grandfather , but his thoughts soon concentrated on his mother 's suffering . |
| 7 | Prince Richard was asleep beside her , his head on his mother 's lap , her arm protectively encircling him . |
| 8 | Anne sat next to him on his mother 's cretonne-covered settee and Abigail lay on a plaid rug on the floor , kicking with her legs and punching with her arms . |
| 9 | He had relatives in America on his mother 's side . |
| 10 | The ‘ Frederic ’ denotes the German infusion in the family — his great-grandfather was German — and on his mother 's side there is the Scottish influence . |
| 11 | This chamber is equipped as a scribe 's workroom , and is inhabited by the Ghost of old Stanislav Goethe , a half-Kislevite ( on his mother 's side ) , half-Ostlander scholar . |
| 12 | It had put food on his mother 's table . |
| 13 | Richard , therefore , on his father 's side an Angevin , was a southerner on his mother 's . |
| 14 | Patrick subsided into his seat , thoroughly alarmed now at the expression on his mother 's face . |
| 15 | David put a friendly hand on his mother 's knee , and Julia thanked her . |
| 16 | And he 'd drawn and coloured the cross that he 'd seen on his mother 's bed . |
| 17 | No manager or salary were recorded but he managed on his mother 's contributions and joined Miss Sarah Thorne at the Theatre Royal , Margate , where he played thirty leading parts in eight months . |
| 18 | On his mother 's birthday they did n't go to the Spinning Wheel but to the Queen Victoria for lunch , because his father insisted . |
| 19 | And another little slice , " Mrs Kelleher offered ten minutes later as they sat , Silly-Willie sprawled like a baby on his mother 's lap , and Nicandra , remote and sedate , quite Miss-of-the-Manor now , sitting on a stool under a picture of the Pope . |
| 20 | He was not entirely harmless either , not when she thought of him spread on his mother 's lap . |
| 21 | It is enough , ’ he concluded in triumph , though whether by way of verdict on his mother 's marital mores or as comment on his own wrestling with the English language was not clear . |
| 22 | He looks like a bolshy milk-fed calf , frothy and fired-up on his mother 's milk . |
| 23 | Charles had perhaps depended quite heavily on his mother 's support in 840 – 1 . |
| 24 | Only Erlend , drunk on the night and the excitement , jumped up and down , swinging on his mother 's arm . |
| 25 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 26 | William Austin looked on his mother 's face |
| 27 | In that year , represented in Paris by Francois Cothereau , ‘ hautbois du Roy de France living on the rue St Marguerite , parish of St Sulpice ’ he sold to his brother Jean ( ‘ hautbois du Roy living in this city of Paris , rue des Fosses , St Germain des Pres , parish of St Sulpice ’ ) land in La Couture which he had inherited on his mother 's death in 1669 ( document 3 ) . |
| 28 | According to Mr. Mendez he was most likely three-parts white , as I have said , and the rest Mexican on his mother 's side . |
| 29 | Smiling , Lindsey leaned forward , stethoscope held to the chest of the tearful infant who sat , wide-eyed , on his mother 's knee . |
| 30 | He began trying on his mother 's clothing when he was eight and realised he was a transexual when he was 17 . |