Example sentences of "[coord] as a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often strong feelings of mistrust or vulnerability come because of something going badly wrong in another church or as a child . |
| 2 | A woman can present herself in various roles : as a ‘ mother figure ’ , or as a child appealing to her husband 's paternal instinct . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | . ’ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And as a child did you know that that you you did n't use this room to ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was educated in Falmouth , and as a child he was interested in natural history . |
| 9 | But as a child she had many times been wrested ( as it felt to her ) from her known environment into some strange place , leaving her totally confused . |
| 10 | But as a child refugee , he needed all his resources to cope . |
| 11 | But as a child it er to me I thou I think it was er very good . |
| 12 | Hannah is obviously a natural musician , although the aforementioned modesty forbids her to agree with that assessment But as a child she quickly learned to play both piano and organ with none of the pain and stress often endured by most youngsters , even those with natural skills . |