11.   Made a special point of coming there because they knew my mother would give them a bowl of soup or what was ever on.

12.   Among the Mossi of Burkina Faso, a new mother gives her first drop of breast milk to the doll she tended throughout her pregnancy.

13.   Blaisdell gave him the cross his own mother had given him, and Rosenberg responded by giving Blaisdell a chai, the Jewish symbol for life.

14.   A drama major, my mother gave a speech protesting this inhumanity, a speech broadcast over a local radio station.

15.   After weeks of persuasion, with the matchmaker showing how the alliance with British royalty would help Israel, the mother gave her grudging approval.

16.   Brian has only his clothes, a hatchet his mother had given him as a gift, and his courage to help him survive.

17.   Buckley was clutching a pair of rosary beads his mother gave him years before, and struggling to remember exactly what he was supposed to do with them.

18.   But he stuck with the fancy spins and leaps, he said, because his mother gave him Kit Kat candy bars after practice.

19.   For example, although her mother gave her to friends to raise, June never felt abandoned.

20.   For good luck, her mother gives her a pre-game kiss, a practice that started in high school.