1.   When Michael Timpany developed the symptoms of meningococcal meningitis his worried mother immediately called her GP.

2.   And what does he tell his worried mother about the much-anticipated finale to ease her mind?

3.   Another worried mother asked whether the bug repellent she had put on her children in the morning would last through their recesses at school.

4.   As a boy in Columbus, he flunked the third, seventh and ninth grades before his worried mother shipped him off to military school.

5.   A worried mother is brought onto the set.

6.   Here, as in other inner-city New Orleans neighborhoods, some worried mothers routinely had children sleep on the floor to protect them from stray bullets.

7.   His worried mother had other hopes.

8.   His worried mother took him for an initial appointment at the clinic but they showed up late.

9.   Sharpton, the worried mother of the Rev. Al Sharpton, flew from Dothan, Ala., to visit her son at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

10.   She had even been subjected to daily lectures by her worried mother, who cut out articles from local newspapers and left them in her room.