Example sentences of "and [pron] mother " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | After a couple of days , me and me mother were n't getting on , so she hoyed me out . |
| 2 | Mind you , I only got it because he died intestate and me mother does n't care . |
| 3 | And that was in my own country , the land of my birth , and the birth of my father and my mother , and their fathers and their mothers . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you silly bastard , ’ he replied , ‘ My father was born on the Scottish side of the Border and my mother on the English side . |
| 5 | A commentator came on and my mother froze in her seat . |
| 6 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 7 | I did n't know my father was dead and my mother in hospital . ’ |
| 8 | Both he and my mother disapproved of hitch-hiking . |
| 9 | ‘ And my mother . ’ |
| 10 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 11 | Sir William said yesterday : ‘ My father was a good amateur ornithologist and my mother was a little bit of a botanist . |
| 12 | For instance , throwing paint over the car and my mother going through it . |
| 13 | The double-sided nature of the sixteen-year-old boy who arrived in the History Eighth at St. Paul 's among a group of conventionally well-educated youths two years his senior — who seemed to him grimly earnest and thinking only of work and success and speaking in more re fined voices than he was used to — is clearly shown by Thomas 's two attempts at writing fiction , The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans ( 1913 ) dedicated to ‘ My Father and my Mother ’ with its epigraph from Hardy , ‘ But now — O never again ’ , and an unpublished work of ‘ Fiction ’ ( his title ) which he abandoned in the early summer of 1914 . |
| 14 | My aunt and my mother were particularly fond of him , and when he had a stomach upset they fussed over him all the time , preparing special bland food for him , making him swallow Milk of Magnesia and advising him not to drink too much Christmas sherry . |
| 15 | My father would not even allow a radio in the house , and when I suggested getting a TV set for him and my mother he adamantly refused , saying that the wireless had been the death of good conversation , and that TV would be the death of the family . |
| 16 | I was suffering severe and painful withdrawal symptoms , and my mother was alarmed by my fits of weeping , my chronic insomnia , my thinness . |
| 17 | I wanted to have Dana beside me as his coffin slid so smoothly into the flames and my mother clutched my arm , not daring to watch something she felt was horrible — and was to happen to her one day , at the new crematorium in Bath , high up in those verdant hills . |
| 18 | So , after that , he had decided to leave Salamanca for good and return to the United States by way of England , to say a final goodbye to me and my mother in the house where we had all been so happy at Christmas . |
| 19 | Sometimes the slaps and punches were for real now , and my mother would cry up the stairs in alarm whenever she heard a sudden thump as I fell on the floor or bumped into the furniture . |
| 20 | My father always did the fires , the garden , and cleaning the gas stove , as well as the usual maintenance jobs and the accounts ; and my mother always did the washing and ironing — among other things — and , of course , the shop . |
| 21 | When he and my mother came to live at the house he bought five Aylesbury ducks to swim on the pond and clear it of weed . |
| 22 | If I were to die , she thought , there is nobody to find me , perhaps for days and weeks , for we do not have visitors , and my mother would die too , of fright or starvation or a broken limb , after her voice gave out in screaming , and she tried to struggle from the bed . |
| 23 | She was close at hand at my birth as well as at my conception ; and she and my mother were often together . |
| 24 | ‘ And my mother — ’ she faltered . |
| 25 | ‘ They took two of the children and my mother was one of them . |
| 26 | When , at the beginning of this illness , he and my mother came to stay , I organised what I can now see was an utterly inappropriate marathon of activities . |
| 27 | But since he was too weak to travel , it was arranged that he would come and stay with my husband and I until he was fit enough to fly back to Jersey where he and my mother lived . |
| 28 | Me and my mother stayed the night at Seve 's place and watched the Open on television . |
| 29 | Salads my father dismissed as ‘ grass ’ and my mother as ‘ rabbit food ’ , yet she lived to be eighty-four . |
| 30 | ‘ My life with Gary and my mother and her occult friends has enabled me to pick out the symptoms by which we may recognise those who are involved in the occult . |