Example sentences of "his mother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 2 | He mimics his mother 's voice |
| 3 | Jessie , his mother 's dresser , sidled in , a dress and Jacket over her arm . |
| 4 | His mother 's voice was cold from behind the make-up towel . |
| 5 | Then he threw his rake down , took two paces across the field , and spoke into his mother 's face . |
| 6 | He remembered the descent down the stairs , the wintry sun reflecting off his mother 's stockings , the lines of cars outside the house . |
| 7 | And his anger , as well as his mother 's night-long laments . |
| 8 | He also gave his mother 's new name , as she had recently remarried . |
| 9 | ( To both Leonard 's and his mother 's regret , sadly ; another of those alienating-reconciling events which seem to have been characteristic of this family . ) |
| 10 | But recent reality had also taken its toll : his father 's lamented death , his guitar teacher 's suicide , and that of a cousin ; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein , now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother 's house ( at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly , in odd moments of clarity , saying , ‘ Oh , yes , you 're the writer , are n't you ? ’ ) created other pressures . |
| 11 | And then his grandfather died , and Leonard was faced with other traumas : his mother 's remarriage and its unhappy dissolution . |
| 12 | It is always dangerous to draw individual implications from social and psychological survey-work such as this , but it does fit : Leonard 's admission of insomnia , of disturbing dreams and nightmares , his high sensitivity , his creative abilities ; not least his father 's demise and his mother 's need to attend to him during his frequent bouts of sickness before it . |
| 13 | He still saw Irving Layton , and they decided to put their hands to playwriting ; which reinforced his mother 's concern ! |
| 14 | This new prodigy , already 36th on the provisional list after only three ranking events , started playing in his mother 's snooker club when he was nine ; at 13 he made his first century and at 16 his first 147 . |
| 15 | This memorial exhibition combines his explosively colourful paintings with sculptures by his father , Jacob Epstein , and has been organised , following his mother 's death , by her friend , Beth Lipkin , to whom most of the pictures were left . |
| 16 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 17 | On both his father 's side and his mother 's side he was the great-grandson of a Christian minister . |
| 18 | Eliot 's preface to his mother 's Savonarola is a defence of nonrealistic drama of the sort that Sweeney Agonistes embodied . |
| 19 | He looked as though by being born he had sapped his mother 's strength and left her a used-up husk . |
| 20 | Still munching cheese , Paul made a dive for his coat only to be halted by his mother 's withering glare . |
| 21 | Bring fully into the consciousness of your patient that particular lift of his mother 's eyebrows which he learnt to dislike in the nursery and let him think how he dislikes it . |
| 22 | As he knelt at his mother 's feet , the sovereign invested her son with the symbols of office , ‘ by girding him with a Sword … by putting a Coronet on his head … and a Gold Ring on his finger … and also by delivering a Gold Rod into his hand , that he may preside there and may direct and defend those parts to hold to him and his heirs … for ever ’ . |
| 23 | Later , he stood there again and watched his mother 's tears . |
| 24 | Richard , wearing the new dressing gown and slippers that had been his mother 's practical present , stood at the window , looking out over the bare countryside . |
| 25 | Over his pyjamas he had put on a new Fair Isle pullover which had been his mother 's Christmas present . |
| 26 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 27 | He even ended up inventing women — he is a very good story teller — to distract his mother 's jealousy from Veza , the amazing woman under whose spell he fell ( and who , in part three of the autobiography , he marries ) . |
| 28 | Their only son , also Philip , decided to come back to his mother 's home to live . |
| 29 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 30 | My dad said he 'd buy me a ticket to fly back to England and David said that he 'd pay him back because he 'd be very happy if I could come back and help him as he did n't really know how to deal with his mother 's grief . |