Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 2 | With its crossed bands of stone , its high arched windows and copper cupola it reminded Dalgliesh of the brick towers he had laboriously erected as a child , brick on precarious brick , until they toppled in noisy disorder on the nursery floor . |
| 3 | Having painted as a child , Stewart began to experiment at college ( the American College of London ) by applying patterns to everything in sight , from folding screens to lamps , and floor cloths to cutlery handles . |
| 4 | Born in 1864 , Toulouse-Lautrec was physically deformed by a rare bone disease , probably the result of aristocratic inbreeding , and bad falls sustained as a child . |
| 5 | I would n't put it down to the way I was manipulated as a child . ’ |
| 6 | T is awful I was taught as a child in catechism the labourer is worthy of his hire there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice one of them is a oppressing the widow and orphan and the other is defrauding the labourer of his hire because the labourer is worthy of his hire that 's a sin that cries to heaven for justice , that 's what I was taught as a child . |
| 7 | T is awful I was taught as a child in catechism the labourer is worthy of his hire there are four sins that cry out to heaven for justice one of them is a oppressing the widow and orphan and the other is defrauding the labourer of his hire because the labourer is worthy of his hire that 's a sin that cries to heaven for justice , that 's what I was taught as a child . |
| 8 | Yet this is how crying in infants is sometimes interpreted : the child is being naughty ; naughtiness is punished ; smacking is how I was punished as a child ; so I smack my baby . |
| 9 | The third sister , Ankhsenpaaten , had been given as a child bride to Tutankhaten . |
| 10 | She was shrewd enough to understand that the way he had been treated as a child would give him the added drive and determination to better himself . |
| 11 | is an adult but must for bureaucratic reasons be treated as a child ; |
| 12 | Is being treated as a child an intrinsically humiliating and self-denying experience ? |
| 13 | What is it to be treated as a child ? |
| 14 | They say you 're an adult but because you are still in the school situation you still get treated as a child . |
| 15 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 16 | Even Nick had become someone who could never be hurt — to be treated as a child treats a parent , with love but without consideration . |
| 17 | Trapped as a child , |
| 18 | However , a child , having the book read to them , would not think of such complex ideas , and after all the book was designed for a child . |
| 19 | You still think in the way you have been educated as a child . |
| 20 | He had had a congenital right inguinal hernia repaired as a child . |
| 21 | A similar pattern to that of P.P. has been reported for a child with a large cyst in one hemisphere . |
| 22 | Section 17 allows the Secretary of State to specify ‘ cases and circumstances ’ under which the National Curriculum will not apply , or will be modified for a child . |
| 23 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 24 | Or like Jenny 's mother , whose grey head trembled constantly , so that she reminded Winnie of a nodding Chinese doll she had owned as a child . |
| 25 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 26 | Coatlique is often depicted with a child in her arms , and the first man was thought to have sprung from her as a result of divine conception . |
| 27 | Tachygastria has been reported in a child with gastric atony , who later developed the full clinical picture of CIIP . |
| 28 | She understands the world through trivial fictions , and is trapped within a child 's view of history and society . |
| 29 | At first he thought an adult must have caused them but now he thought she could have been dropped by a child . |
| 30 | He had wanted to be more noticed as a child . |