Example sentences of "a child 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Randolph 's face looked like a child 's before a wrapped-up present . |
| 2 | Teachers provide the greatest encouragement for children to communicate in writing when they respond more to the content of what is written than to such errors , and when they share a child 's writing with other children . |
| 3 | Ruby straddled a child 's moped and , as though mounted on a Wellsian Time Machine , skilfully manoeuvred into the heavy traffic on Cromwell Road . |
| 4 | The feet were by the door , small , ill-formed , like wax models of a child 's that had passed through flame and were partially melted . |
| 5 | A child 's paddling pool would house the fish temporarily , but this should be placed either inside a shed or garage , in case the temperature falls drastically overnight . |
| 6 | Add a festive frolic to Christmas tea time or a child 's stocking with Asda 's Iced Ginger Biscuits . |
| 7 | Philippa , whose face was normally as radiant and untroubled as a child 's , had not stopped frowning since Lee had started talking to her that afternoon and it annoyed Conrad to see it . |
| 8 | In the words of the headmaster , this is a school which is ‘ more interested in a child 's today than his tomorrow — in where the child is now in relation to where he was , rather than in relation to our expectations of where he ought to be ’ . |
| 9 | The fire-light danced merrily on this , and really ( setting all taste but that of a child 's aside ) it gave a richness of colouring to that side of the room . |
| 10 | He ate vast quantities of aïoli : his firm , plump chin gleamed with it , like a child 's , approached with a buttercup in search of an affinity for butter . |
| 11 | alone ; for while a child 's quite small we take it |
| 12 | She described the Americans on the moon , satellites and space travel , and his eyes widened with delighted wonder , like a child 's , as he said : ‘ You 're pulling my leg . |
| 13 | ‘ Like a child 's , ’ he whispered . |
| 14 | From its size the experts think your pen was probably part of a child 's set . |
| 15 | You have a quick look you , you , you think that could be a child 's one and you think well . |
| 16 | My second memory is of another matinee film , but not a children 's one . |
| 17 | Danny was living in a children 's home . |
| 18 | Another girl , placed in a children 's home at 13 after her mother had a nervous breakdown and her father left for another woman , described her shock at finding it was also a place of ‘ correction ’ for young offenders . |
| 19 | The Bolshoi regime seems similarly hidebound , with Tsar Grigorovich running the world 's largest ballet company like a children 's home . |
| 20 | At the tender age of six or seven , she was then involved in court action that saw the man go to prison — with Rosemary being taken away to a place of safety , a children 's home . |
| 21 | In the 1920 's and 1930's she was a social worker in the Middle East , and also ran a children 's home for Doctor Barnardo 's . |
| 22 | CARE workers at a children 's home were unaware that a 15-year-old girl in their charge was going out to work as a prostitute . |
| 23 | An institution was any establishment provided by the Council for reception and maintenance of the poor other than a hospital , a children 's home or a separate casual ward . |
| 24 | In some cases the first three years of life are spent in this ward before transfer to a children 's home . ’ |
| 25 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 26 | The boy was convicted of 71 offences , including 40 charges of burglary , after absconding from a children 's home . |
| 27 | ( One of the very few to leave for other employment was Emily Picken , who had been offered a post as matron of a children 's home . |
| 28 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 29 | She , together with her brother and sister , had been in care — a children 's home on the south coast — from the age of four until ten years old . |
| 30 | It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go . |