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‘A mother may tell a person that something-is-the-case.’

[⟨det mother.ntell.v ⟨det person.n⟩ (that.p something-is-the-case)]

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“My mother always told me that no good deed goes unpunished,’ ’ he said.
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Years ago my mother told me that heartache was nothing more than growing pains.
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My mother tells me that when I was three she wandered into the living room and happened to watch me pick out a cd I wanted to listen to, put it in the player, and skip to my favorite song.
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Last night I slathered Vic’s vapor rub on my feet and put on socks, my mother telling me in all her wisdom that this would help the cold, 100 % proven she said, to take the coughing away.
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At the beginning of the summer, my wise mother told me that I needed to deal with the mess in my room.
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My mother, though proud of me for defending her, told me later that I would just have to keep it to myself she was doing everything she could to get us out of there.
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My mother tells me that before then, even though I was a bit stifled, I was helpful, I was cheerful even though I didn’t smile, and I was conscientious.
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I remember painting a fence at my parents’ ’ weekend farm’ ’ when I was about 10 and my mother telling me that I always do things’ ’ half assed’ ’.
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Well, my mother told me that her friend purchases LV and Chanel from an OFF 5th store in Estero, Floridia… and I agrued that LV wouldn’t let their brand go down like that.
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My mother, who is 64 years old told me tonight over dinner that she got a tattoo!
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My mother always told me that dreams come true and when it does come true the best thing to do is to dream bigger.
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When other mothers told me that their kids got sick within the first week of daycare, I thought, “Perhaps this is an exaggeration.”
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When they were arriving 2 strange? guys appeared and told something secretly to the mother, then the mother told Anna? that she had to go to? her aunt’s house and that she will go in a few seconds.
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P. S. S. Did your mother ever tell you that a stitch in time saves nine?
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Natural mothers will tell you in a heartbeat that they relinquished all their rights.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

(208.9 x 76.2 cm) Signed, dated, and inscribed: (lower left) Mucha / 1909; (bottom) MAUDE ADAMS as JOAN of ARC Gift of A. J. Kobler, 1920 this website QUOTATIONS INVOLVING JOAN’S VOICES AND INSPIRATIONS “My mother had told me that my father often dreamed that I would run away with a band of soldiers.
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My mother tells me that a woman we all used to go to church with got out of rehab, for cancer.
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After that you even help me with the writing on my particular which my mother last minutes suddenly told me that I got this form to fill in.
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Mothers and parents who lost their children thirty or forty years ago tell me that they still cry, that they still miss and yearn for their child.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.