Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , no sooner is the child in its cot than Hello ! magazine is called in to photograph the occasion for the world to see . |
| 2 | Lally was a child , innocently flattering . |
| 3 | This has always been the child 's room , the girl-child . |
| 4 | She must have once been a child of the nursery school . |
| 5 | You may still be a child but you are the only person in this dreadful place who understands the meaning of care . |
| 6 | Luisella had also been the child of a successful businessman , owner of one of the most important chemist 's shops in Treviso , and she too had had brothers who had dominated her childhood , driving her to defend herself in unorthodox ways . |
| 7 | It occurred to me that it might after all have really been a child , from one of the cottages at the bay to the east ; someone who had come to help Maria . |
| 8 | How often is a child singled out for special praise at governors ' meetings ? |
| 9 | She really was a child . |
| 10 | It might be obvious that an object had a religious purpose , but often even this is debatable : a small , crudely carved wooden figure might be the cult statue of a god , but it could equally well be a child 's toy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The good reason proposed here is the child 's future handicap . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Rosemary , at forty , told me : I 've never been a child |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never been a child , ’ she told me . |
| 16 | It is at least possible that he did not know otherwise and that his father was responsible for this fiction , assuring his son that he truly was the child of British parents , though American-born . |