Example sentences of "[pron] mother was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My mother was the daughter of a regular army officer — a lieutenant-colonel in the North Staffordshires . |
| 2 | My mother was the daughter of an English officer in the Indian police , who fell in love with a humble clerk in Jaffna and had the temerity to marry him . |
| 3 | My mother was the daughter of a butler . |
| 4 | as if my mother was the child to be protected ! |
| 5 | My mother was the actress , you see . ’ |
| 6 | My mother was the sort of person who regards talking to yourself as the first sign of madness . |
| 7 | Suppose what he read out to my mother was the truth ? ’ |
| 8 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 9 | He had a casual way of saying ‘ my mother ’ which somehow emphasised invincibly the fact that his mother was the Queen . |
| 10 | Marcel Proust was born in Paris , on the tenth of July , eighteen seventy-one , two months after the collapse of the Commune. erm His father was a well-known doctor , who seems curiously enough to have failed markedly to understand the causes of his son 's lifelong illness erm and his mother was the daughter of a Jewish stockbroker . |
| 11 | well your mother was the wood there was n't she really ? |