Example sentences of "[be] [art] child [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 2 | What is the child to do ? |
| 3 | Is the child accepted or rejected , brought up in a tolerant atmosphere ? |
| 4 | Never the less , it is the child speaking we do n't put the words into their mouths and as such when they speak and when they write it down , it 's one of the , possibly one of the few chances of having primary evidence of how the child is at er , writing er , on an official document |
| 5 | Another important development is the Child Care Open Learning Project , part of the Gatsby Project , which has led to the availability of the Open University Courses ‘ Caring for Children and Young People ’ ( P653 ) and ‘ Working with Children and Young People ’ ( K254 ) both of which are making a wide range of knowledge and research available to many practitioners and others . |
| 6 | Of course a certain amount of caution is necessary , for how else is the child to learn that he should not put his hand in the fire or stick his finger into an electric socket ? |
| 7 | Is the child showing frustration with immature skills ? |
| 8 | What kind of response is the child required to make ? |
| 9 | What is the child doing ? |
| 10 | ( ‘ And how is the child doing — she is quite over the loss ? |
| 11 | How often is a child singled out for special praise at governors ' meetings ? |
| 12 | He is a child aping the conventional responses of an adult . |
| 13 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 14 | Was the child intended ? |
| 15 | Was the child allowed to express a wide and deep range of emotion , or was the expression of particular feelings taboo ? |
| 16 | ‘ Where was the child murdered ? |
| 17 | I had an imaginary friend when I was a child called ‘ Invigamise-who-was-born ’ — do n't ask me why , because I do n't know . |
| 18 | Er they supported me and canvassed for me when I was putting up , but I ca n't see them going , whereas I can remember the erm the when I was a child going to the , we used to have a fete and it was a politically , I ca n't remember exactly what it would be called , but I know mother and the Guild were always there making the tea and got a stall and they were always in the forefront and they 'd always got their rosettes on . |
| 19 | Imperceptibly the trees must have grown , yet they seemed to Adam no different from when he was a child coming up to fetch the milk and when , on sunless mornings , he had felt a kind of menace from the wood . |
| 20 | An example was a child admitted for surgical repair of a tracheo-oesophageal fistula who developed pyloric stenosis in hospital postoperatively . |
| 21 | ‘ One day , ’ as one Pakistani girl in Bradford said , ‘ I was a child playing out of doors , the next I was a married woman with a life full of work . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Doone is considering it was a child playing out a fantasy , ’ I said . |