Example sentences of "mother [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people who have an elderly parent to live with them are heard to say , ‘ We 're very fond of her of course , but the trouble with Mother is that she 's always there ! ’ |
| 2 | The promise of the Weaving Mother is that you may cast off your threads when the pattern is complete , and begin again . |
| 3 | Wahler and Dumas ( 1986 ) suggest that in these families the only predictable response that the child receives from the mother is that she behaves aggressively when he does . |
| 4 | The only time she will sit with my mother is if she is called into the living room and the door closed behind her . |
| 5 | The reason your system is not going mother is because you keep bloody ! |
| 6 | ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ My husband 's name was Leekie , so my name is Leekie and so was your mother 's before she marry . |
| 8 | Angel explained that she would be staying at her mother 's while he went to Brazil alone to see if the country was suitable . |
| 9 | To everyone 's relief , including his mother 's though she never said so , Marion 's year-old Alan was taken off by his fostermother to be reared at her father 's home in Killundine . |
| 10 | And I would n't do it to Russell when Russell 's going to his mother 's because I 'd |
| 11 | He remembered little things — childhood images trapped in memory : his father 's hand laid momentarily on his mother 's as they sat at table ; laughter from their bedroom at night ; his mother straightening his father 's tie and drawing her finger in a delicate gesture along his cheek . |
| 12 | ‘ I shall go to my mother 's as soon as my discharge from the army comes through . ’ |
| 13 | Olga 's voice was as tremendous as her mother 's as she screamed : ‘ Do n't be ridiculous ! ’ |
| 14 | I think the mother and child love is n't always pleasant and I think that 's quite worrying to some mother 's if they ca n't love their child in the way that people expect them to . |
| 15 | Social class was assigned using the patient 's occupation , the father 's if the patient was not employed , and the mother 's if no other occupation was available . |
| 16 | If I am right about the masculine character of the women pioneers of agriculture we can see that the fact that the followers of the Phrygian mother-goddess castrated themselves is a nice illustration of Freud 's idea of the ‘ shadow of the object falling on the ego ’ : the ultimate reproach against the new agricultural mother was that she was masculine , and therefore the self-punishment came to fit her crime while confirming the identification with her in the most exact way possible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His mother was and must still be such a one . |
| 19 | ‘ Especially if your mother was as you say . ’ |