Example sentences of "the child had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nottingham Crown Court was told that by the age of nine weeks , the child had fractures to both collar bones , both legs and an arm as well as a broken skull . |
| 2 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |
| 3 | On the positive side , at least one court recently has made an adoption order with a condition of access to grandparents with whom the child had important links . |
| 4 | ‘ We … heard that the child had been kidnaped with the full collusion of the hospital staff , ’ Bridges said blandly . |
| 5 | In the spring of 1937 , June went to Bellevue in Manhattan to have the baby , and returned quietly and resolutely to begin the charade that had been pre-determined , that the child had been born to her mother and father , Ethel and John . |
| 6 | The child had disappeared . |
| 7 | At other times the experimenter would take away some sweets the child had previously been given . |
| 8 | So much so that she was not left alone with him , but that afternoon the mother had had to go shopping and the child had returned from a swimming session in the baths and had been alone with the man . |
| 9 | The child had then become unconscious . |
| 10 | Mothers were almost never taken seriously until the child had gross symptoms … |
| 11 | He was totally obsessed with that dreadful little boy Grégoire — he even brought him to tea here , you know , and the child had no manners at all , he broke one of the Sèvres cups — Edouard said he was nervous … |
| 12 | Sometimes in the night , wakeful because the child had stirred , he would put out his hands and clasp the bars and long to shake this frail barrier that symbolized the unbridgeable gulf between them . |
| 13 | She remembered her younger daughter , aged eleven , was still in bed in the caravan and ran out to discover that the child had been wakened and dressed by social workers , and was already in their car . |
| 14 | ‘ Anna tells me she never wants to leave Edward , ’ Ruth said after the child had gone to sleep . |
| 15 | Not until the child had come round , white-faced but spluttering and coughing , did Bert become aware of a man and a woman standing beside him : dishevelled , panic-stricken and shamefaced . |
| 16 | The child had been saved , thank God . |
| 17 | And now the child had come back , putting herself in danger for the sake of that brother . |
| 18 | Thus , when a child who calls a stool ‘ chair ’ is corrected and introduced to its more accurate name and subsequently uses the term ‘ stool ’ , it would be reasonable to say that the child had learned a new word . |
| 19 | The mother 's behaviour was often related to how the child had behaved , but there were long aggressive interchanges which were often the only predictable interaction that the mother and child demonstrated ( Wahler et al . |
| 20 | The child had been about to cry again . |
| 21 | From this distance , and her being among the other women , the child had not recognised her mother , but when the sentence was passed , ‘ One pound or one month ’ , and the woman turned about and the child saw her face , a cry escaped her , and she was about to spring forward when Aggie pulled her tight against her leg and , bending down , hissed at her , ‘ Quiet ! |
| 22 | The child had followed her , and as she started to finger the clothes , she said , ‘ It … it is n't a very nice place . |
| 23 | This was geared to helping him to behave likewise with a failing pupil , so that both he and the child had less need to make others feel useless . |
| 24 | The nun realised that now the child had no one to protect her , some of the other children were making up for lost time . |
| 25 | It involved hard work and long discussions , dealing with fears , anxieties and practical problems , which needed to continue long after the child had been placed . |
| 26 | This usually entailed placement at a very tender age , because it would be difficult for some parents to deal with the issue of race and colour if the child had developed a sense of racial identity and pride in his or her heritage . |
| 27 | As she soon discovered , the explanation for this unseemly merriment was that when the priest directing the operations had solemnly inquired how the sick patient was , the child had irreverently blurted out : ‘ I am bursting , let me out , I want to pee . ’ |
| 28 | Immediately there was a loud laugh of relief from the guests , who at once took it that the child had come to terms with her charges ' ultimate fate . |
| 29 | The child had to take the card home and get different fabric cuttings from her or his Mum . |
| 30 | He sat up all night and into the next day until he heard a soft mewling sound like a kitten and knew that the child had been safely delivered after all that pain . |