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Example sentences for "when mother"

  • When Mother wished to quiet me if I was suddenly afraid of ugly creatures at night, she had to make a light as quickly as possible.

  • That is just what I thought to myself, when Mother woke me early, that she need not knock but come right in.

  • When mother said I might go to the box and get "half a dozen raisins," I got half a dozen, and not a handful.

  • My birthday came the first of May, and very proud was I when mother led me up to a lady visitor, and said, "My little girl is four years old to-day.

  • When mother took me out of the closet, and asked, "Would I be a better girl?

  • That was the great day--when mother arrived to fetch me home.

  • Every flat stone, all up and down the beach, was eloquent of mid-morning and mid-afternoon meals, when mother or nurse came down to us with loaded basket to stay our little stomachs between breakfast and dinner and dinner and high tea.

  • When Mother sawed I was not afraid, but when Father began I was in terror, for Father, who is so awfully clever with his head, is so unpractical with his hands that he can't even drive a nail straight.

  • When Mother talks of our journey home from the country that time, she both laughs and cries.

  • When mother saw "Pig's Eye" as St. Paul was then called, she did not like it at all.

  • When mother undressed me that night, two little green and white scraps of cloth fell out of the front of my little low necked dress.

  • It looked very inadequate for a young merchant's whole stock of goods, but when it was added to by scrapings from the brown sugar barrel, when mother's back was turned, it sold like wild fire.

  • In looking over an autumn catalogue, we came across a series of books for young persons in which we were struck by the titles, When Mother Lets Us Help and When Mother Lets Us Cook.

  • Once, when mother had a bad sick headache, I sat on the edge of her bed and begged her to tell me if she thought she was going to die, so if she was I could plan to go and live with my Aunt Margaret.

  • But the end came to everything when--when mother died.

  • At her, "When mother died," Abbott saw the girl weeping beside the death-bed.

  • Emily seems indifferent to every thing; and, when mother and I talk cheerfully, turns her face away.

  • He had begged her to ask Phebe up, when mother and I were away, enjoining the strictest secrecy upon her, and the poor child knew not what to do.

  • Aunt Lenox adopted me when mother died, and I always lived at your house.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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