Example sentences of "children [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Coastguard launched the Crimdon Dene inshore lifeboat and the helicopter at RAF Boulmer was scrambled yesterday after children reported seeing a swimmer floating out to sea near Hartlepool . |
| 2 | Margaret Lacey was the class bully and the children enjoyed seeing her get , for once , what she doled out so often . |
| 3 | Children like to see quick results from their efforts , but a garden , however small , can demonstrate the passing of time as they watch for changes . |
| 4 | I prefer to let the game be fun , with little concern for competition , but sometimes children like to see who takes the shortest number of dives to pick up all the treasure . |
| 5 | Children do see words as natural objects , and the non-semantic associations Valerie Yule disapproves of ( ’ visual , phonic , contextual , etymological , and so on ’ ) are the key to the child 's interest in them . |
| 6 | And the children had seen and liked it ; he , like some stray dog , was drinking out of puddles . |
| 7 | As an example of the pitfalls involved in drafting questions , we can consider the fuss that there was in 1983 when Hill announced that he had found that as many as 40 per cent of six-year-old children had seen ‘ video-nasties ’ ( i.e. video films of horror , violence , and sadistic sex ) . |
| 8 | The new blouse was pink and frilly , quite unlike anything the children had seen her wear before , and she had combed her hair and put lipstick on . |
| 9 | It may be asked whether children need to see that the paragraphs beginning ‘ Their names … ’ and ‘ Their mother … ’ are a condensed report of what the boys told Janey , and not the ‘ author 's voice ’ speaking directly to the reader . |
| 10 | ‘ Many of our children have seen awful things . |
| 11 | Once children have seen it at work they often suggest ways of adapting it . |
| 12 | Note that the children have seen that the outcome of the game can not be pre-planned , and are likely to take this understanding with them to the Example continued drama itself . |
| 13 | When children have seen that their decisions , however small , affect the course of the drama their self-esteem rises enormously . |