1.   I was out that day, and my mother took the call.

2.   My mother took my temperature and sent me back to bed.

3.   Bernard was engaged to a very pretty young woman, but for some reason his mother took against her.

4.   At that time my mother took in paying guests.

5.   ...a snap my mother took last year.

6.   My mother took me there occasionally, and we used to pass the window every Sunday after mass.

7.   Her mother instantly took on the burden of more work without fuss.

8.   The police say the mother took her baby daughter and another older child to a playgroup at the Oldbrook Community Centre in Milton Keynes.

9.   Her mother had taken her downstairs so as not to disturb the rest of the family.

10.   A mother takes her eye off her toddler in a shopping mall and he is murdered.