Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Campbell , from the Association of County Councils , agreed that child care workers needed more means to prevent young people in care ‘ going out the door ’ . |
| 2 | Between them the lovers shared eight children , neatly divided between them . |
| 3 | That Louis 's basic intention was to reassert his own control emerged in the immediate sequel to Attigny : he " sent Lothar to Italy " ; and he engendered another child by the Empress Judith . |
| 4 | We asked some children what they thought happened to food inside their bodies . |
| 5 | We asked some children to add to a picture to show where the light in a room was coming from . |
| 6 | One front-page exclusive in the Daily Mirror reported that child porn photos involving two top television stars were uncovered in a police raid on a photographic studio . |
| 7 | Sam sired eight children . |
| 8 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 9 | Copious reading material , cheaply produced , is made available to children and in one class I visited each child had ten substantial units to read in Yoruba , in addition to the English language text and supplementary readers . |
| 10 | One hundred and ten people infected with HIV reported 119 children , of whom 60 were dependent — that is , less than 16 years old and living with a parent . |
| 11 | If , on the other hand , I approached this child — ( he smiles at Geraldine [ disguised as a boy ] ) — my action could result only in a gross violation of the order of things . |
| 12 | The survey , carried out by the Office of Population and Census and MORI , also found 250,000 children are being sold cigarettes illegally every week . |
| 13 | For the next 15 years she was to lead an undistinguished life of secluded domesticity until her marriage to a middle-aged magistrate , by whom she bore three children . |
| 14 | Baldwin ( 1977 ) traced all child victims of severe abuse ( damage on the scale of multiple fractures , internal injuries , brain damage and death ) who were under the age of five years and living in North East Wiltshire over an eight-year period . |
| 15 | ( 1986 ) , in their study Who Needs Care ? examined child care decision making in two English local authorities which involved 361 children from 266 families , all of whom were considered for care during 1980–1 . |
| 16 | It gave them a new sense of opening opportunity , a new reason for raising standards and expectations , new cause to doubt the wisdom of a system which excluded many children from the chance of a full academic education from the age of eleven , and a new hope . |
| 17 | He retained many child qualities of his own , including a liking for an excellent roll downhill , witnessed by one of his friends , a Mr Langton , who had walked with Johnson to the top of a very steep height . |
| 18 | You will move poor children from here to there ’ and he lifted up and evacuated imaginary children from one side of his blotting pad to the other . |
| 19 | In Bettelheim 's search for material that would give ‘ access to deeper meaning ’ ( 1976 , p.4 ) he found currently-available children 's books ( in the 1970s ) superficial : ‘ most of these books are so shallow in substance that little of significance can be gained from them ’ ( ibid . |
| 20 | By this William she bore two children , a boy , Maximilian , and a daughter , Sylvestre . |
| 21 | The mother found two children too much to cope with and C. spent most of his life with his grandmother , the father 's mother . |
| 22 | In the Survival Study , fieldworkers at their 4-monthly home visits screened children for suspected night blindness , Bitot 's spot , or corneal abnormality , and referred affected children for further assessment by a study physician . |
| 23 | G. Cantor ( 1955 ) and Reese ( 1961 ) used young children . |
| 24 | A newspaper obituary mentioned four children living at the time of his death . |
| 25 | But then , if if you think of those children that murdered that child . |
| 26 | And I had the impression that , he just adopted this child through sheer sorrow and sympathy for her but , did not say , erm , categorically that that was his . |
| 27 | Group 1 comprised 12 children who were not healed ( mean age 11.3 , range 5–18 years , girl:boy 1:1 ) on a gluten containing diet . |
| 28 | After the basal evaluation ( T ) , patients were randomly assigned to either group A or B. Group A comprised 10 children ( two boys and eight girls with a mean age of 4.0 ( 2.4 ) years ) and group B comprised 10 subjects ( six boys and four girls with a mean age of 4.7 ( 2.7 ) years ) . |
| 29 | A couple I knew who adopted three children found that only one of the three was at all interested in finding out about his natural parents . |
| 30 | I buried many children from the village that year . |