Example sentences of "children [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children whom society rejects and treats as disposable . |
| 2 | And recall Kafka on incidental madness in Dostoevsky ; it 's not just the children whom Svidrigailov terrifies . ) |
| 3 | To Esau 's asking who the women and children are , he replies , ‘ The children whom God has graciously given your servant . ’ |
| 4 | Fleury , too , had grown stout and perhaps rather opinionated ; he and Louise had a number of children whom Fleury was inclined to hector with his views , showing extreme displeasure if they disagreed with him . |
| 5 | But Val said them children them children have they manipulate her . |
| 6 | I give these children my benediction . |
| 7 | My mother had social pretensions and candidly looked down on most of our neighbours — feckless social casualties like Mary Haslam who picked coal on the slag heaps and was endlessly pregnant by a series of different partners ; like the Races , one of whose children my father caught drinking paraffin . |
| 8 | ‘ It gets a bit harder with children my age because they lose interest quicker or try to catch you out . |
| 9 | Constance had supervised Camille 's introduction to the children of the neighbourhood , to her own nephews and nieces and those of approved families — some in which the parents were still encouraging their infants to assist on their shoplifting expeditions had been dropped from her acquaintance , as she regarded petty larceny as common and ill-advised — and had taken her to many places deemed of interest to children which Scarlet would have found uncongenial . |
| 10 | Three years earlier he had produced twenty illustrations , as well as endpapers and cover design for The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower , short stories for children which Paul published with Lehmann under the name ‘ Odo Cross ’ . |
| 11 | For most of these children their attendance at school would be limited to a pitifully short period of their young lives . |
| 12 | I think a lot of schools do still teach the t the children their tables which I think is a good thing . |
| 13 | A solicitor , engaged by the parents to ask these children their views before the Hearing on 5 March , was not allowed access to them . |
| 14 | It is these which , above all , give the children their ability to cope with a large repertoire . |
| 15 | Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood . |
| 16 | Ross said some hours later as he entered the apartment while she was giving the children their supper . |
| 17 | Babies were given this amazing food so some children grew up as giants compared with other children their age . |
| 18 | And now Mother was not writing stories every day , she was able to teach the children their lessons . |
| 19 | In the above drill the frame might be expanded , e.g. " … she cooked the rice , and gave the children their dinner . " |
| 20 | " … she cooked the rice , gave the children their dinner , and then took her siesta . " |
| 21 | Thus one Nottingham woman , whose husband earned only 10/ a week as a framework knitter in the 1900s , gave him money so that he could continue to give the children their pocket money . |
| 22 | … . a small proportion of our students have found jobs , some within their own language communities , for example in a Chinese bookshop or an Indian restaurant … some are very active in community work , for example teaching children their mothertongue in a Saturday school ( McLaughlin , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | Like many young children her granddaughter tends to see detail rather than the total picture . |
| 24 | Anne Watts , Midland 's equal opportunities director , said : ‘ When a women gives up her job to care for children her employer loses immeasurable training and experience . |
| 25 | But not so good for the children who soudainement they 'ave no mother ! |
| 26 | Oxybutynin is unhelpful except , perhaps , in children whose enuresis is part of a syndrome including frequency , urgency , dysuria , and covert bacteriuria . |
| 27 | The same is true of all children whose level of literacy is low . |
| 28 | The Sheffield , for example , currently offers the best rate at 12.36 net , but only children whose parents or grandparents are existing savers may open an account and there is a maximum investment of £500 . |
| 29 | The Sheffield , for example , currently offers the best rate at 12.36 net , but only children whose parents or grandparents are existing savers may open an account and there is a maximum investment of £500 . |
| 30 | The Sheffield , for example , currently offers the best rate at 12.36 net , but only children whose parents or grandparents are existing savers may open an account and there is a maximum investment of £500 . |