Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] mother " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , of course , he 'd send his friends similar notes — ca n't stay tonight , got terrible earache , or my mother 's not very well — because for something like a year or more , he was having a double affair with , — dare I mention her name — Natasha Kornilof , who was a great friend of mine . |
| 2 | I 'd call a wummin Like ma wife or my mother |
| 3 | But I know it 's totally untrue because none of my sisters or my mother would ever call me Harry again . |
| 4 | Which I had n't known about or my mother and otherwise living near enough they could have s done that school and gone through from five years to er fourteen . |
| 5 | Though he never forgave me , or my mother for having helped me , both into his world and out of it , he was sufficiently my father to let sleeping dogs lie . |
| 6 | I could tell my grandparents things that I would n't tell my , my father or my mother . |
| 7 | So , although I am genetically related to my mother 's brother 's , or my mother 's siblings ' children or my father 's siblings ' children , the fact is , the siblings of both groups are genetically related to each other . |
| 8 | Why not David , or my mother ? ’ |
| 9 | Neither parent was fully literate in English or their mother tongue . |
| 10 | But Fraser , pressed on the question of value for money resorted to other arguments : " they are more economical , but they are not so satisfactory , they are always going off for sickness of some kind or another , or their mother is ill or something of that kind — that is the greatest trouble , their mother is ill constantly " . |
| 11 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 12 | You have more of the ‘ good times ’ and less of the routine day to day jobs when your child can get bored and irritable — I think it does a child good to get to know and trust somebody different , such as a childminder or a nanny , rather than depending on his or her mother entirely for everything . |
| 13 | It is dangerous to tell a 5 year old boy or girl that his or her mother uses language incorrectly . |
| 14 | She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her , she would get her own back in some way or another . |
| 15 | To reach her father 's business , she had to go two stops on the Underground further than for her father 's house , or her mother 's well , where her mother had been . |
| 16 | She needed help , professional help , and Kate was honest enough to admit that it could n't come from her or her mother . |
| 17 | More knowledge of the emotional needs of children demonstrated the importance of maintaining a warm and continuous relationship between a child and his or her mother or mother substitute . |
| 18 | Or her mother would have forced him to . |
| 19 | A Portuguese or Greek student could teach his or her mother tongue in this country or English back home . |
| 20 | The priest blessed them , then gave the word , and with a roar , knives unsheathed , the front ranks of the crowd rushed the dais and slashed at the wood of the Virgin 's triumphal car and , shouting aloud , carried it off in fragments ; she continued to look upon it all unmoved from her new perch , and someone came back glorying in his spoils — was it her uncle , or her mother 's father ? — with splinters for each of the family and a chunk the size of a brick for himself . |
| 21 | " Yes , there is , " Martha replied , with a firmness which she could hardly have inherited either from her father or her mother , " but there 's no reason why we should n't go and look at things . |
| 22 | Further , in some Australian languages there are up to four distinct sets of primary ( as opposed to special supplementary ) kin terms : ( a ) a set of vocative terms , ( b ) a set of terms which have an implicit first person possessive feature ( i.e mean " my mother 's brother " , etc. ) , ( c ) a set of terms which have a second person possessive feature ( i.e. mean " your mother 's brother " , etc. ) and ( d ) a set of terms which have third person possessive features ( i.e. mean " his or her mother 's brother " , etc . ) . |
| 23 | Well I reckon that 's her either his mother or her mother . |
| 24 | The number of people who as children were separated from their mother , or whose mother died , is likely to be relatively small . |
| 25 | An' I do n't want anything from that house or yer mother , ’ he told her . |
| 26 | Strangely enough , Ken Pitt would n't let me go with him , or his mother for that matter , to receive the award . |
| 27 | McLeish hesitated , then said stiffly that he was Francesca 's godson , and also something like her third cousin , or his mother was . |
| 28 | Or his mother . |
| 29 | In spite of what you have said , I should prefer to obtain satisfaction for past injuries from yourself than from either King James or his mother . ’ |
| 30 | If either Alain or his mother noticed they said nothing , but Claudine 's conversation was utterly empty . |