Example sentences of "mother was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother was only about 21 at the time — she had been married when only 13 . |
| 2 | Sonja was as usual being difficult and her mother was trying to strike an impossible balance between calming her down and getting her to do as she was told . |
| 3 | ‘ Your mother was after you . |
| 4 | ‘ My mother was born there . ’ |
| 5 | And they married young enough — mother was sixteen when she had me . |
| 6 | ( His mother was not a great reader . |
| 7 | But his mother was concerned , and lonely . |
| 8 | When I was fourteen months old my mother was arrested . |
| 9 | In one , the infant 's mother was placed behind a clear screen so that the male and infant could see her and she could see them . |
| 10 | In the final condition , the mother was hidden behind a metal screen so that she could neither see nor be seen by the pair in the observation room . |
| 11 | After half an hour in each case , the mother was released to join her infant and the accompanying male . |
| 12 | Males of all dominance classes ( alpha , subordinate and newly introduced ) were less aggressive towards infants when the mother was in sight . |
| 13 | Mr Hughes 's mother was a suffragette . |
| 14 | The girl 's mother was outraged by the ruling . |
| 15 | Judge Wroath applied the right test in deciding whether or not the mother was unreasonably withholding her consent . |
| 16 | Von Karajan had been a member of the Nazi party , and saw no reason publicly to mourn musicians who had been persecuted ; Abbado by contrast is a left-winger whose mother was imprisoned by the Nazis for hiding a Jewish child . |
| 17 | CLARENCE HOUSE 9 October : Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was represented by Sir Martin Gilliat at the Memorial Service for Colonel the Hon Sir Gordon Palmer which was held in St George 's Chapel , Windsor Castle this afternoon . |
| 18 | Michael Ramsey 's mother was one of nine children and of the brothers two were schoolmasters , two were clergymen , one an organist , and one a doctor . |
| 19 | His mother was the most important object in his life . |
| 20 | His mother was still prominent in the Cambridge Labour Party . |
| 21 | Elizabeth was German and her mother was a clockmaster . |
| 22 | Our mother was an East Riding woman and her regime was enlightened and less oppressive . |
| 23 | I became aware that my mother was pushing her way towards me . |
| 24 | Even so his mother was appalled ; she thought ‘ that the desert and solitude had turned my brain' ( p. 293 ) . |
| 25 | Rose 's mother was not reassured by Maggie 's answers but she liked her and did n't want to endanger their young presences about the house . |
| 26 | It was also important for him because he believed that matriliny , the reckoning of group membership in terms of who one 's mother was , was associated with a high status for women . |
| 27 | Even if one belongs to a group because of who one 's mother was and not because of who one 's father was , this in no ways implies that women have particularly high ( or low ) status in that group . |
| 28 | His mother was Yucatecan , a mestiza from Mérida , but she was ‘ catalanised ’ , as Gironella put it , by his father and grandmother ; in other words a jointly Eurocentric upbringing , but , perhaps significantly , without personal contact with Europe until his first visit to Paris in 1960 . |
| 29 | When I went to see the family , the mother was very rational and calm and the girl told me : ‘ there must be millions like me , Mrs Kazi . |
| 30 | Her mother was with her and three other people . |