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Example sentences for "mother told"

  • My mother told me, with a happy break in her laugh, how he had hardly touched the food on his plate.

  • He was in a prodigious hurry, forging along at a rate that made it difficult for me to overtake him when my mother told me to “run after him, and we would all go home together.

  • Mrs. Harry's manner was artificial, and my mother told me she thought it the result of an early determination to curb the demonstrations of an impetuous temper and passionate feelings.

  • After I got home, my mother told me she had determined to leave us on Saturday, and go back to London with Sally Siddons; and I am most thankful for this resolution.

  • Mother told me afterward he was Mary's lover and had promised her father not to visit Mary in his absence.

  • Mother told me afterwards we were with them two weeks.

  • Mother told me many times afterward it seemed very strange to her seeing the Mormon women dressed in short dresses with hair cut short and keeping Saturday for their Sunday.

  • Mother told him, "The child is afraid of you since you had Bennett killed.

  • Mother told me to ask her to make Grace Greenwood the dress she had promised when I was so sick; so I took the Scotch plaid to her and reminded her, and she pushed me away and said: "Some time!

  • Anyway, mother told him to set a limit and stick to it.

  • Before we reached the Deams' I wished that we had carried them as mother told us, for we had lost three, and if we stopped to hunt them, more would hide.

  • My mother told me I was four years old at that big dinner.

  • Patrollers "My mother told me that when the boys would go out to a dance, they would tie a rope across the road to make the horses of the patrollers stumble and give the dancers time to get away.

  • My mother told me about seein' the pateroles before the War and the Ku Klux Klan afterwards.

  • White woman told me go do somethin, bring in a load er wood I think it was, and my mother told me not to do it.

  • She married soon, my mother told me of it; she lived twelve miles from us, and did not write to me.

  • Mother told Sarah to wipe up the place, it was only marks of what Sarah's overflowing cunt and my prick had dropped in our hurry.

  • And Perceval said, "Maiden, I salute you, for my mother told me whenever I met a lady I must respectfully salute her.

  • My mother told me to go to Arthur and receive knighthood from him.

  • My mother told him, he had better not touch upon that string.

  • Mr Faulkland came early this morning to enquire after my health: my mother told him I was not well.

  • My mother told me that he owned a woman who was the mother of several chillun and when her babies would get about a year or two of age he'd sell them and it would break her heart.

  • I don't know much about my grandparents other than my mother told me my grandfather's name was Fransuai, and was one time a king in Africa.

  • After the war our family come back here and settle at Fort Gibson, but it ain't like the place my mother told me about.

  • I was delighted when my mother told me one day that a yellow flower I brought her was a cowslip, for I thought she meant that it was the genuine English cowslip, which I had read about.

  • My mother told me the tale," she would always begin, "and now that she is dead I tell it to you.

  • Mother told me once that love is a curse, and that I must pray that it would never enter into my life.

  • Mother told me that all strange men were very wicked and dangerous, but I do not think you can be.

  • Mother told me I must never do anything that was wrong.

  • Mother told me that I was very ugly and that nobody would ever like to look at me.

  • My mother told me that herself, and she heard the woman say it, and so did many others that were there.

  • Mrs. Donnely: My mother told me that when she was a young girl, and before the time of side-cars, a man that was living in Duras married a girl from Ardrahan side.

  • And my mother told me that before the burying, she saw the corpse on the bed, sitting on the side of the bed, and his feet hanging down.

  • Well, Mother told me a long story about the baby mosquitoes and what they do when they are grown up.

  • Mother told me why she wanted to kill all the "wiggle-tails.

  • Yes; but I remember my mother told me never, never to tell a lie; that it was very wicked, even if it didn't do any body any harm.

  • Mother told me never to do that, and besides I'm afraid I might die before morning.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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