Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] my mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only knew my mother and grandmother and life was not easy — we often went hungry . |
| 2 | But I just thought my mother wanted to be specially nice to me . |
| 3 | But I still have my mother , three sisters , a sort of sister-in-law , and four nieces . |
| 4 | I nearly gave my mother a nervous breakdown . |
| 5 | That was that , for if I now refused my mother would see to it that I regretted my foolishness . |
| 6 | From the age of seven I had always wanted to be a missionary and I well remember my mother returning from a missionary meeting in the village to hear me say that was what I hoped one day to be . |
| 7 | I never knew my mother . |
| 8 | I never knew my mother because , as I explained , she died on the day I was born . |
| 9 | You deliberately fixed my mother with a glassy stare and frightened her out of her wits . |
| 10 | Rob Wilson 's courtesy and kindness is legendary and many years ago he indirectly helped my mother to hook her first salmon . |
| 11 | My father , on the other hand , never went to church though he never denigrated my mother 's choice and approved of his children being raised as God-fearing . |
| 12 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |