Example sentences of "[pron] mother 's [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always left the dollop of jam in the middle of my mother 's puddings until it was the last mouthful . |
| 2 | It was at the time of the Bulganin-Khruschev circus and my leave was very short — not long enough to clear up my mother 's affairs as I wished to do . |
| 3 | I have worked , I have exhausted myself day in day out , for years , and nobody has ever considered my age or health , it never entered my mother 's head that I might welcome a break , new surroundings , a chance to be waited on . |
| 4 | In the following conversational fragment , we shall say , for example , that speaker A uses the expressions my uncle and he to refer to one individual and my mother 's sister and she to refer to another . |
| 5 | I swear it , on my mother 's milk that we shared . |
| 6 | She reminded me of my mother when I ( or she ) was very young ; the perfume upon my mother 's neck when she leaned over to say goodnight , a pearl of jade clinking warmly and lightly upon my chest , Mommy on her way to the Village Gate , to meet some dark Europeans , to catch an excellent set of jazz . |
| 7 | No one else had ever spoken of love in my mother 's drawing-room and I imagined that Lili 's conversation would cling to the curtains and the cushion covers like tobacco smoke so that the room would never be the same again . |
| 8 | I strained to hear my mother 's words as she answered the phone , but they were muffled , brief , as if responding to a death . |
| 9 | They had helped with their mother 's care when she had been at home , and taken part in planning her funeral . |
| 10 | She stood staring down at the fresh earth of the new grave , at the wooden cross bearing her mother 's name and she could not believe that this nightmare was real . |
| 11 | Brenda 's cheeks still burned with shame when she remembered her mother 's insistence that she should visit Hoggatt 's to see where her daughter was going to work , although Chief Inspector Martin , the Senior Police Liaison Officer , had apparently thought it perfectly reasonable . |
| 12 | She felt her mother 's presence before she turned and faced her , her little grubby hands clenching and unclenching with nerves . |
| 13 | They would all be returning to town in the autumn to meet some sons of good families in Riba ; she 'd been saving for years , money from the pigeons , money from the cheeses , the almonds , her mother 's money when she died — may she rest in peace and perpetual light shine on her — she 'd hidden it from that villainous landlord who 'd strip everyone of their surplus if he knew how much they 'd hoarded , but they 'd never find out , the folk were far too tight to let anyone know , and he , Davide , must not breathe a word . |
| 14 | He also visited Lurgan and the late Mrs Sleator once related how , as a very small girl in Lurgan on that day in 1902 , she disregarded her mother 's instructions that she was not to leave home ( ‘ I am still obstinate ! ’ she confided ) , went to the Town Hall where the General was speaking and saw him there . |
| 15 | She also realised that she had an advantage over her mother 's generation because she had worked , and was more inclined to go out and do things in her retirement . |
| 16 | He explained that O'Neill 's daughter , who was with her , had observed something interesting in her mother 's stars and she had passed the magazine over to her . |
| 17 | It circled round her as she moved through the house and sometimes it settled in the look of pure hatred that emanated from her mother 's eyes when they rested on her . |
| 18 | JOCASTA FORBES WATCHED the headlights of her mother 's car as it drove carefully up the twisting canyon drive , and began to die inside . |
| 19 | and then pick her mother up cos she lives in Creep as well , she ca n't stay at her mother 's house cos she 's just |
| 20 | The cane basket on the handlebars of her bicycle was always full on leaving the house and full again with things from her mother 's house when she came back . |
| 21 | She leaned over and hugged Cleo , who put a delicate finger on her mother 's nose as she whispered : ‘ Dose … ’ |
| 22 | On the other hand , the little girl locked within her subconscious mind still linked thoughts of childbirth with her mother 's comment that it ‘ nearly killed me ’ . |
| 23 | Miss Norma Scott , aged 23 , failed to report her mother 's death because she did not want the council to discover the squalid conditions at her home in Bilsmoor Avenue , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 24 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 25 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 26 | Just as she felt ashamed and somehow responsible for the disgrace of her mother 's lover so she felt that the man 's attack had been her fault . |
| 27 | He plucked the child from its mother 's arms before she could protest . |
| 28 | The baby continues taking its mother 's milk until it is at least two years old . |
| 29 | Its forelimbs have tiny claws on them which assist in grasping its mother 's hairs and it moves determinedly forward with a movement rather like a swimmer 's crawl , turning its head from one side to another with alternate strokes . |
| 30 | But they were unable to spin out their game for long ; impatience got the better of them and they returned the puppy , which stood shivering under its mother 's tongue as she licked it clean of foreign influences . |