Example sentences of "children she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since other marriages were without children she presumed that other couples , in their millions , shared their own difficulty . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose I could , ’ said Julia , thinking of the children she longed for , ‘ if there was something equally important I had to do . |
| 3 | She disapproved of the haphazard selection of foster parents ( she would have much preferred the children to go to hostels run on the lines of Bunce Court ) and , when the Movement pressed ahead anyway , she concentrated on plucking out from the crowd the children she identified as especially gifted and on salvaging those who had been packed off to unsuitable foster homes . |
| 4 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 5 | Dr Hoggarth gave two case studies from children she knew . |
| 6 | The might before in the hotel lounge , with his wife , Lonnie , beside him , bemusedly aghast , he grilled a pleasant waitress until he knew how many tips she got each week , how many children she had , the frequency of men hitting on her and the general contour of her reality . |
| 7 | One of the younger adopted children she had known at school , a very charming and beautiful girl of Indian parentage , some years later made contact with her again , and they talked about fashions and make-up together . |
| 8 | You would mark down how many children she had and her circumstances . |
| 9 | She would be able to give up her job as secretary in the medical physics department at Larksoken Power Station and start the first of the two children she had planned . |
| 10 | But as they seized her by the mantle , she shook it from her shoulders , folded two of her children in her arms and floated away through a window , never more to be seen by her husband and the two children she had left behind . |
| 11 | This Katherine instead reminded her a little of those refugee children she had housed during the war , ever polite , ever ready to comply , but as old as the world and never altogether of it . |
| 12 | To Ada Neumann her lodgers were not grown men but children , the only children she had ever had . |
| 13 | My mother had four children she had bring up , without anything for the first two years , how the hell she managed it , I do n't know ! |
| 14 | As a result of this curse , she set about devouring any children she came across , in perverse vengeance for having lost her own . |
| 15 | But when Betty Bonham was asked by the Queen just how MANY children she 'd fostered … she could n't remember . |
| 16 | Certainly , there were times when the mistress had a strange faraway look in her eye , a look that belied her busy nature and preoccupation with the children she adored : a haunted lonely look . |
| 17 | Oh my children she said . |
| 18 | Although she was terribly fond of the children she found that working with them was like banging her head against a brick wall . |
| 19 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 20 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 21 | As for the subtlety , that seemed quite alien to the woman who coochy-cooed over children she wanted to mutilate . |
| 22 | A NURSE who died of cancer has bequeathed her pony for the use of the terminally ill children she devoted her life to . |
| 23 | A NURSE who died of cancer has bequeathed her pony for the use of the terminally ill children she devoted her life to . |
| 24 | She knew her father had pleaded for her , had said she was too solitary and that her mother had refused to allow the shepherds ' children to come , the children she liked to play with . |
| 25 | But while this ‘ violence ’ is to be expected within the family , it 's not acceptable when your child does it to other children she encounters . |
| 26 | ‘ Binge ’ diary Week 1 Decided to give up vomiting ; binged three times 2–3 Noticed that when stressed by children she turned to food and binged 4–5 Binged only once each week 6–7 Returned home and observed how she wanted to please her parents 8–9 On holiday , eating three meals a day — discovered she did not put on weight . |
| 27 | Except where marriage occurs at a very young age , the earlier a woman marries , the younger she is when she bears her first child , and the more children she has when she reaches the end of her reproductive years , other things being equal . |
| 28 | It is a truism that every woman wants to be able to choose how many children she has . |
| 29 | Do you know how many children she 's got ? |
| 30 | The one thing that really marks them out is good preparation , so that when they stand up in court they have n't got to think much about the content cos it 's at their finger tips , they know it , they know Mrs Brown 's age , they know how many children she 's got , they have n't got to think about it . |