Example sentences of "[pron] mother 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered the threatening looks of the men of the family , the attentive stares from the ones in the street , my mother 's harsh way of talking : and I repeated it to myself . |
| 2 | Was it because I was out of reach of the prying eyes of the men in my family and their questions about my comings and goings , and far from my mother 's interrogations about why I slept on my stomach , or why I took so long in the bathroom ? |
| 3 | ‘ When I was young my mama used to say ‘ grow up and see how tough the world is ’ ' and ‘ I was unhappy at my mother 's death/ I was unhappy at my father 's death/ … |
| 4 | The witch has my mother 's face . |
| 5 | My mother 's ears are burning and she squirms in her seat . |
| 6 | Certainly my mother 's successful campaign to have the nearby men 's urinal closed was vigorous and rewarding . |
| 7 | But my mother 's leg had gone to sleep . |
| 8 | We arrived , toting our towels , watched the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes do their synchronised high kicks ( a great bunch those Rockettes ) , the curtains parted in front of the screen , the symbol of the film studio appeared ( I 've always loved this part , but was it a lady or a lion ? ) , and the title of the film zoomed forward : The Eddie Duchin Story , starring Tyrone Tower , my mother 's favourite . |
| 9 | The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ . |
| 10 | There is therefore no reason to believe that in such a system these two relatives are equally my mother 's husband or that they both have similar sexual rights over my mother . |
| 11 | ‘ A friend of my mother 's runs up the clothes for me , but I want to learn how to use a sewing-machine , ’ she says . |
| 12 | It meant that my mother 's workload greatly increased , but with my uncles ' help we struggled on . |
| 13 | But she did not know our ways and her complaints or corrections were harsh by comparison with my mother 's . |
| 14 | ANTHONY GREEN ON HIS WIFE , MARY : ‘ I 've just finished a picture about Mary and me making love on my mother 's spare bed . |
| 15 | You can have my mother 's address for next of kin . ’ |
| 16 | With lots of beer and home-made bread and cheese and ham and some of my mother 's special cakes and — ‘ |
| 17 | At lunch I was sad and subdued , and I could hardly face my mother 's and father 's happy faces , or the rather more knowing glances of Aunt Lyallie , who I later discovered had put my mother wise to many things . |
| 18 | Years later , after my mother 's death , I found out what had caused that first attack and precipitated the fatal one . |
| 19 | Trying to compose myself , I got back home in time to make tea , but could do nothing except collapse sobbing in my mother 's arms . |
| 20 | Today , since my mother 's death in that beautiful city , I can not bear |
| 21 | When I got home , my mother 's face was white with shock . |
| 22 | There was Jane , my mother 's stepmother . |
| 23 | I found among my mother 's papers when she died a letter from my grandfather which must have wrung her heart for years after his death : ‘ … ca n't you spare a moment to write to your poor old Dad … ‘ |
| 24 | The way to convince this Matron of my mother 's extreme need of a hospital bed is not through any show of carelessness on my part . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I always left the dollop of jam in the middle of my mother 's puddings until it was the last mouthful . |
| 27 | Other than that , I ca n't see what it is about her that is so dreadful suddenly , but the tone of disappointment and warning in my mother 's voice does get through to me . |
| 28 | It must relate to my first sight of my mother 's genitals — but not the last — for we lived in just one room . |
| 29 | I remember I had a dream , when I was five or six , of all the books in my mother 's library being thrown on to a bonfire with piles of other books and burnt . |
| 30 | I GREW up between two households , my father 's and that of my mother 's father and mother . |