Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make particularly good presents for people in flats , for elderly or housebound relatives , or for a child with his or her own bedroom and an interest in wildlife that needs fostering . |
| 2 | Often strong feelings of mistrust or vulnerability come because of something going badly wrong in another church or as a child . |
| 3 | A woman can present herself in various roles : as a ‘ mother figure ’ , or as a child appealing to her husband 's paternal instinct . |
| 4 | There is a crime of gross indecency with or towards a child under 14 , which may be committed even though there is no indecent assault on the child by the adult — by inviting the child to touch the genitalia of the adult , for example . |
| 5 | A parent or grandparent who has sexual contact with a child or grandchild may well be guilty of one of the offences already considered — rape , if there is sexual intercourse without consent ; indecent assault , if there is sexual contact with a child under 16 ; and even gross indecency with or towards a child , if the child is under 14 . |
| 6 | There is no cure for mental handicap , but there is prevention , or at least the taking of considered and intelligent precautions to reduce the risk of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child , or of a child becoming mentally handicapped . |
| 7 | Also , as a lay term , it refers to the capability of an infant to survive infancy or of a child to survive childhood . |
| 8 | The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) . |
| 9 | Remember that love and respect has to be earned , whether from an adult or from a child . |
| 10 | I DO not remember that as a child I played cowboys and Indians very much . |
| 11 | His sister Elizabeth remembered that as a child he half closed his eyes at meal times as he sat with his family . |
| 12 | Once her mother , talking of Christmas , had said that as a child she had herself received no presents , as it had never occurred to anyone to buy such things — but that one year her elder brother , thinking to tease her , had hung at the end of her bed a stocking , and that when , excited , she had sprung to open it , she found it contained ashes from last night 's grate . |
| 13 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 14 | A charge of manslaughter can still result in a custodial sentence although for a child as young as ten it could be reduced to a supervision order . |
| 15 | And as a child his own household included not only his father 's father but his mother 's grandmother , who spent most of her days hidden away ‘ in her own cabin ’ , but who would emerge on Sundays , always knitting a long stocking . |
| 16 | . ’ To the non-musician , the name Mozart means the archetypal prodigy , the boy who started composing at four years old , and as a child touring the courts of Europe astounded monarchs with his amazing aptitude for keyboard playing ; who at 14 copied out from memory a complex choral piece heard once in the Sistine Chapel ; who died in mysterious circumstances and was given a pauper 's funeral in an unmarked grave . |
| 17 | Already the various structural elements in Nizan 's psychology are becoming apparent : a brooding sense of death nurtured in his formative months and years as an infant and as a child ; a childhood admiration for the values and life-style of his father , a man exuding certainty , conviction and power , a man involved in the practical problems of everyday existence ; a corresponding indifference for the seemingly hollow existence of his mother preoccupied with family duties , social functions and religious rites ; an implicit recognition that the path to be followed was to be located somewhere in the dynamic working-class origins of his father rather than in the passive middle-class origins of his mother ; a sense of loneliness as a child compensated by a deeply experienced relationship with his father , an idol , the source of knowledge and truth . |
| 18 | And as a child did you know that that you you did n't use this room to ? |
| 19 | N well I , I , I had , why I was so positive about it , I had an uncle who had it very badly and as a child I was very aware of his hands , they were quite inhuman looking , they were that shape , and you know everything he did he , he had to that and that 's remained in my mind that when I got it I though I wo n't have the hands like that so I r I w I go , I went to sleep , I still do it , every night , spread my hands , the last thing I think about , spread the hands . |
| 20 | He was educated in Falmouth , and as a child he was interested in natural history . |
| 21 | The tears had been for himself , for Arabella and for a child who would never be born . |
| 22 | ‘ The local fair always appears in the square at Meet weekend and for a child it must seem absolutely magic . |
| 23 | Says Morrissey : ‘ If as a child , you live in an environment where your parents do n't get on , it 's quite crippling . |
| 24 | Gryschenko , from Kiev , married and with a child less than a year old , joined with all the team working long into the night at Hamble to prepare Fazisi 's bare hull for the race . |
| 25 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 26 | Could it be that eight years on and with a child into the bargain , she and Brian would be taking the game up again ? |
| 27 | With a lover you may be tender , or outrageously jealous , and with a child you may be alternately nurturing , supportive and strict , even punitive . |
| 28 | I do n't like housework particularly — it 's just a bore , it 's so monotonous , and with a child you 've done it once and five minutes later it just does n't look as though you 've done it at all . |
| 29 | " In this second edition of a superbly illustrated text … there are 493 plates , nearly all in colour and most clinical — a few depict histological , microbiological , parasitological , morbid anatomical , and radiological aspects of this extremely important group of diseases — characteristic temperature charts are included also , and there are ECGs from patients with diphtheria and mumps and from a child with measles encephalitis . |
| 30 | But flower seeds in pretty packets are often displayed in shops alongside sweets , and within a child 's reach . |