Example sentences of "his mother [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother nagged him . |
| 2 | A BABY boy had an astonishing escape when his mother dropped him from the balcony of a ninth-floor flat . |
| 3 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 4 | If either Alain or his mother noticed they said nothing , but Claudine 's conversation was utterly empty . |
| 5 | The child wo n't get out of bed when his mother calls him in the morning : so he misses the school bus , is late for school and is punished by his headteacher . |
| 6 | The thrust of their loose end , as of details like the murderer 's yellow cubby-hole — coffinlike , his mother calls it — and Marmeladov 's greenish-yellow face and the mortal yellow-black bruise over the heart after he gets run over , is metaphysical and apocalyptic , not documentary . |
| 7 | And when she asked about his family , he told her about his father being a sergeant , and his mother leaving him , hating all the moving . |
| 8 | He had completed his secondary education in Jamaica but his mother implored him to continue in England . |
| 9 | Until his mother died he used to pay a routine Wednesday visit but , of course , that 's stopped now . ’ |
| 10 | When his mother died it was as though his youth began to slip out of sight . |
| 11 | His father , Paul , said : ‘ His mother asked him if he had caught anything . |
| 12 | ‘ What you going to do with a degree in history ? ’ his mother asked him when he graduated with a first . |
| 13 | He remembered his mother telling him about Sid Watkins ' request for another salmon . |
| 14 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 15 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 16 | Yeah well well actually Russell do n't own , cos she 's still alive , and his mother owns it , and she 's still alive . |
| 17 | His mother said he was not happy about the new school , and wanted to stay where he was . |
| 18 | His mother said he had been a ‘ normal boy ’ . |
| 19 | can you eat it like that mother ? , his mother said you just tip it out , like a liquid , like a bottle of milk you 're always on |
| 20 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 21 | Balham-born Akram , who is studying for his A-levels , got the stage bug at the age of three when his mother taught him a few classical Indian dance steps . |
| 22 | No , his mother brought him |
| 23 | His mother takes him to Farendon twice a week for tutoring in English and Roman history which he is keen on . |
| 24 | His mother summoned him ; she made it clear that she wished to see him alone . |
| 25 | From quite an early age , his mother told me , John 's interest in theatrical things , and specifically in ballet , manifested itself in setting up cardboard boxes as stages , with pipe cleaners for dancers . |
| 26 | Lili had said , ‘ His mother told me . ’ |
| 27 | His mother told him she made things to sell and left it at that . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's up north in the mountains , ’ his mother told him . |
| 29 | Then in a loud voice his mother told him not to touch my dog as it would probably bite him . |
| 30 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |