"I haven't found out if your mother approves of this young lady, though."
"So you asked, your mother approved, and Rodriguez did the work without telling me."
Janet's mother does not approve of getting involved with a military man who's away all the time.
The father was bourgeois, the mother didn't approve of the name change.
Alec's mother didn't approve of us having such a big family.
They both know that their mother would not approve of her pregnancy.
Peter's mother did not approve of couples living together before they were married.
Her mother approved of the condo, though she hasn't yet seen it.
"But even my mother approves of the language in this book."
The son of the family proposed marriage but his mother did not approve so they broke up.