Example sentences of "children often [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children often use dough in imitation of pastry ; rolling , cutting and making cakes , pies or pasties . |
| 2 | Truant children often use their bus or lunch money to get into the centres . |
| 3 | Children often bring a new toy or special gift they have received to show their teacher and friends , and this may become the basis for a collection , as may something as simple as a pretty sweet wrapper or even an old shoe . |
| 4 | Children often claim similarity , and experience of comparison will enable them , like Tom , to explore whether things are exactly the same or not . |
| 5 | Young children often hear sounds much higher than 20 000 hertz , while many 60-year-olds can only hear sounds up to 8000 hertz . |
| 6 | Similarly , children often remain unaware of their debt to parents until too late , and then spend many years regretting their failure to show their gratitude when they were alive . |
| 7 | Young children often idolise their parents . |
| 8 | The writer 's children often ask , when watching television , ‘ Is this happening now ? ’ |
| 9 | Persuading a child to take a long course of medicine is usually a struggle , as children often dislike the taste . |
| 10 | Younger children often try to use a funnel as a scoop , but as they progress , it is used to fill bottles , control the flow of water through the water wheel and as part of a complex water system of pipes , jugs and bottles on different levels . |
| 11 | Although schools are becoming more accessible to more and more Semai communities , children often attend only sporadically , simply refusing when it suits them . |
| 12 | However , though children often act in ways which seem unreasonable and troublesome to their elders , from their point of view , adult behaviour is often just as unreasonable and incomprehensible . |
| 13 | I also referred to the child 's role as a productive member of the family ; children often take on real responsibility at an early age . |
| 14 | Young children often show a great interest and delight in their faeces and expect others to do the same . |
| 15 | Children often become familiar with the number names long before they achieve any understanding of their meaning . |
| 16 | The princess said children often felt the only way out was ‘ to become invisible ’ and leave . |
| 17 | He ays that a three bedroom flat is not ideal for the project , as up to ninety children often gather there . |
| 18 | Children often match the colours of their equipment , but sometimes the smallest spade is the same colour as the largest bucket and further conversation can be encouraged as they discover it is not always easier to fill a small bucket with a large spade , than to fill a large bucket with a small spade . |
| 19 | In our society , children often reach adolescence at just the time that their mothers are going through the menopause . |
| 20 | Some break in communications between parents and children often occurs during teenage years . |
| 21 | Although children often seemed to understand and produce the unmarked adjective forms more readily than the marked ones , they did not appear to treat small , for instance , at any stage as if its meaning was identical to that of big ( see Bartlett , 1978 ; Clark , 1972 ; Eilers , Oller and Ellington , 1974 ) . |
| 22 | Children often attract our attention when they think that someone has ‘ more ’ than they do . |
| 23 | Parents feel betrayed because their children have caused them so much worry and , later on , children often feel guilty for upsetting their parents so much . |
| 24 | ‘ Children often feel guilt and think they are to blame . ’ |
| 25 | Children often feel they are close to animals , and relate to them very well , feeling like them , especially in their bodily functions . |
| 26 | Very young children often enjoy play with improvised materials . |
| 27 | 5 When children are asked for free recall of what they have just read , ( advocated by Goodman , 1969 ) , younger children often read a difficult passage fluently , but are unable to tap the different levels of meaning ( see below ) . |
| 28 | Not all human behaviours require external reinforcements ; children often learn to solve problems simply for the joy of ‘ doing ’ or of achievement , which leads to self-reward ( 'Did n't I do well ? ' ) . |
| 29 | Indeed , children often acquire less class orientation from parents not only in taught but also in practical terms . |
| 30 | Children often find endless pleasure in sorting and re-sorting boxes of buttons , odd pieces of materials , pebbles , a ‘ lost pieces ’ tray and other inexpensive collections . |