Example sentences of "with [pron] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | They knew what I was like with me mother . |
| 2 | Then , every night I 'd return to that street and live in one room with my mother . |
| 3 | With my mother we settled down in the back row . |
| 4 | But she did not know our ways and her complaints or corrections were harsh by comparison with my mother 's . |
| 5 | He lay down on the bed , with my mother beside him , and he died in her arms , saying : ‘ You 've been a good wife to me , Mary . ’ |
| 6 | I remember going with my mother and my brother to a colliery tip about four miles away . |
| 7 | I prepared myself for immersion , with my new book of instructions at hand , and then went down the steps of the mikva into the water , with my mother and friend and the attendant watching me . |
| 8 | With my mother … . ’ |
| 9 | Shopping with my mother is a tedious experience , producing little or no results . |
| 10 | I said I wanted to live with my mother . |
| 11 | The following morning I went with my mother to the foot of the Pentland Hills near Allermuir , where Leslie and I used so often to walk , and there we paced up and down , talking and talking . |
| 12 | It was considered a very eccentric pursuit for a female ; people used to commiserate with my mother for having such an awful daughter with such odd tastes . |
| 13 | With my mother 's death all settled happiness , all that was tranquil and reliable , disappeared from my life . |
| 14 | My first experiments with love , were like everyone else 's , with my mother . |
| 15 | That came straight from my early conditioning , my relationship with my mother and the fact that I have always found it easier to give than receive . |
| 16 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 17 | I went with my mother to the station to say goodbye to Robert at the end of his embarkation leave . |
| 18 | ‘ The women associated with my mother , all spinsters or widows , never smiled and were constantly worried by trivialities . |
| 19 | For instance when he visited Manchester in 1814 he wrote 9th September — an exceedingly pleasant ride all the way from Leicester to Manchester … we found my poor mother ( actually his step-mother ) surprisingly well for a person of 80 — dined at Brother 's and drank tea with my mother and Aunt Weston ’ , and on ‘ Sunday , I went to my mother 's and walked back with Aunt Evans to my brother 's , she walked wonderfully for a person of 82½ — drank tea again at my mother 's . |
| 20 | He ought not to have died , and if I had gone with my mother to the doctor and done my part as a son , I feel as if he need not have done . ’ |
| 21 | My sister sleeps with my mother . |
| 22 | The only time she will sit with my mother is if she is called into the living room and the door closed behind her . |
| 23 | It was the same with my mother . |
| 24 | You see , Father was actually born in Alberta — his parents came here from Wales — but when he was a young man he went back to visit , and fell in love with my mother and with Wales as well , and stayed there . ’ |
| 25 | When I was in London during the early years of this period I often stayed with my mother in Hampton Court . |
| 26 | And my relationship with my mother was not much better . |
| 27 | Thinking of her own marriage , Constance said , ‘ Maybe , but I think it was very much in character with my mother . |
| 28 | I stayed with my mother 's parents in Eltham and I wrote to every theatre company and virtually every person in the world , but nobody would even look at me because I had n't done drama school . |
| 29 | Given the chance , I would have stayed watching or followed the kestrel around the park all day , but if I was on a shopping sortie with my mother , she was always in an incredible hurry , so that was n't possible . |
| 30 | Within about ten days she was happy enough with my mother and sisters around , but it took her a lot longer to settle down with other people , and with animals . |