Example sentences of "mother [coord] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I could n't tell my mother or father because I should have been in bed by that time . |
| 2 | Because it 's no good saying you 're interested and then going to ask your mother or father if you could talk a violin home and they said no I do n't want you practising at home I do n't like the sound of it or whatever . |
| 3 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 4 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 5 | From the blazing screen he smiled at the proprietor of the Artillery-man 's Friend and at his mother and Rose-Ann and his aunt the dressmaker and at his father , wherever he was . |
| 6 | But do you know , me cousin Eric , who 's quite a lot older than me , was at Scarborough with me Uncle and and his mother and dad and he was only a little one and he was stood in that narrow street that goes off , off the |
| 7 | The mother may feel that her role in the family is cook and food-giver : she may identify herself as a good mother and wife if she continually feeds her family . |
| 8 | He described how L. had been physically abused by her mother and step-father and he also described his concerns regarding the mother as a parent . |
| 9 | Anne Marie worried her mother and police after she disappeared on Easter Monday after an argument . |
| 10 | With his mother and stepfather and his grandmother . |
| 11 | Cassie knew suddenly that she desperately wanted to see her mother and father before they left England . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes there may be bitterness between the mother and father but we can help put things into perspective . |
| 13 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
| 14 | I put out my tongue and Frankie did likewise , but before we had got out she said , ‘ You can tell your mother and father that I shall be calling at the usual time on Saturday . |
| 15 | He told his mother and father that he found their whole system of religion abhorrent . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd always watched it on television and I just loved the game , so I asked my mother and father if I could play . ’ |
| 17 | Going back to the , the blitz when we were bombed out we erm had to during the day we lived in my aunt 's house mother and father and me . |
| 18 | The arrangement is dedicated to Pascal 's mother and father and there is one further happy family connection : Feuillard , Paul 's first important cello teacher , was the cellist at the Trio 's première . |
| 19 | About ten days after the Club dance , my mother and father and I , and Anne and her parents drove up to spend a few days in the Rest House at Kota Belud , a beauty spot on the upper slopes of Kinabalu . |
| 20 | I still can not hold that tension between the immediacy of the world of my childhood , the towering hugeness of my mother and father and my grown-up brother , back from Germany and the RAF with his rifle and a suntan , and the interconnecting pattern of the economy , their class and politics . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's abandoned everyone else in his life , from his mother and father and his sister , three wives and hundreds of girlfriends , to his acting coach . |
| 22 | Diana clearly remembers witnessing a particularly violent argument between her mother and father as she peeked from her hiding-place behind the drawing-room door . |
| 23 | The fireplace , of typical Victorian cast-iron , was in the centre of the left hand wall whilst on the mantlepiece was a marble clock that had been presented to my mother and father when they married in 1904 , this had a large china dog on each side . |
| 24 | ‘ Weenie was with my mother and father when they were killed , the boys were n't . |
| 25 | Here the difference is the stress upon the mother 's role as provider for her children : Orchardson 's work suggests the mother has little physical involvement with the child 's everyday material needs whereas , in Knight 's work , the close physical contact between mother and children and their dress denotes harsh necessity rather than worship — there is not time to ‘ fondly gaze ’ . |