Example sentences of "mother [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother got married in black . |
| 2 | My mother got married in black . |
| 3 | My mother got married in black . |
| 4 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 5 | When Mother got caught again , for the umpteenth time , rather than risk Father 's mounting wrath , she gave the line a couple of vicious tugs , hoping he would not notice ; and almost died of fright when an outraged salmon leapt from the water and made off upstream like a rocket . |
| 6 | He had more or less given up feeling , thought Henry , when his mother got started on him . |
| 7 | Stray dogs and chickens wandered in and had to be shooed out , and in the winter evenings when her mother told stories about saints and piskies and dragon-fillers by the light of the fire , the neighbouring children would crowd in at the door to listen , so that after a while her mother became known as the best storyteller in Polruan . |
| 8 | We 've been ordered to protect the identity of the boy involved , though his mother has faced the press to talk about the episode for the first time . |
| 9 | We 've been ordered to protect the identity of the boy involved , though his mother has faced the press to talk about the episode for the first time . |
| 10 | Whereas Christianity stresses the sacredness of Christ 's birth through the fact of Mary 's virginity , Buddhism gives emphasis to the idea that the mother has transcended normal human existence by fostering the Buddha in her womb : |
| 11 | Its mother has given it all the time she can spare . |
| 12 | A story which focuses on those aspects of ‘ family ’ , which family photography has deselected , but transforms the ordinary things every mother has seen — a wet bed ( as above ) , a bloody nose ( ‘ Emmett 's Bloody Nose ’ 1985 ) , candy cigarettes ( ‘ Candy Cigarette ’ 1989 ) into a technically and philosophically complex narrative . |
| 13 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 14 | If the bride 's mother has remarried and she and the bride 's stepfather are hosts : Mr and Mrs David Green … her daughter ( the brides surname may be included if different ) . |
| 15 | George Bird says his mother has suffered too much , too long . |
| 16 | A YOUNG mother has hit out after being offered a council house with a garden which she claims is in a dangerous state . |
| 17 | The Queen Mother has honoured the war dead at Westminster Abbey . |
| 18 | A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight-year-old son nearly choked on one of the sweets . |
| 19 | A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight-year-old son nearly choked . |
| 20 | A YOUNG mother has called on Darlington council to rid her house of damp after her son developed chest problems . |
| 21 | Now this will surprise you , I know ; but my mother has pointed that out time after time . |
| 22 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'll break down the barriers that Corosini 's mother has erected , ’ he promised . |
| 24 | That is in contrast to the security that the mother has achieved since her arrival in this jurisdiction . |
| 25 | One mother has observed : |
| 26 | His mother has received phone calls threatening her should her son play . |
| 27 | CINDY Crawford 's mother has received death threats as jealousy and hatred split the home town the model left behind for fame . |
| 28 | But , although some doctors consider that the baby has genuine physical pain , others believe that this is an example of the baby reacting to the tensions of the mother at the end of a hard day : and they believe that the crying stops after 10 to 12 weeks because by then the mother has become more competent and confident in her handling of the baby , and has communicated this new calmness to the baby . ’ |
| 29 | The mother has become attuned to anticipating the possibility of the baby 's need to pass water . |
| 30 | ‘ Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother has asked me to tell you how appreciative she is of your splendid BBC TV programme last Friday evening … knows what trouble you went to in the very limited time at your disposal … your wonderfully successful endeavour clear for all to see ’ , etc. , etc . |