Example sentences of "and [art] children " in BNC.
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1 | Burrows makes me feel slightly less guilty , and the less guilt , the better - for me and the children . |
2 | Or would Eden think of the air marshals , and the children who had lost their parents in a blitz , and former warriors who had seen too much blood on a battlefield , and exercise a silent veto , by going for the second preference ? |
3 | ‘ I 'm a boody man , ’ he pretended to chase Rose and the children with his old charm . |
4 | Omi and the children got perfunctory nods from Marx but he peered intently at Bodo who , massive arms folded , was leaning against the wall . |
5 | Adeane 's function as private secretary appeared to be little more than the job of arranging the Prince 's schedule around polo and the children 's bath times . |
6 | No sooner had he come back than he left Diana and the children at home yet again , and went to Italy on a week 's painting holiday . |
7 | There now is , and will be more , choice of channels for those investing in satellite dishes : already four channels of Sky TV , plus MTV , Screensport , Lifestyle and the Children 's Channel . |
8 | ( And the Children 's Bill currently going through Parliament will seek to give them more rights and protection . ) |
9 | The court 's powers in regard to the protection and custody of children are constantly revised by Parliament , as for example in the substantial Family Law Act 1986 and the Children Act 1989 . |
10 | The metal bedsteads were white , the cotton covers on them white , and the children lying straight and still wore white gowns . |
11 | I have left Geoffrey and the children . |
12 | She liked going for slow , rather stately walks in the summer evenings when the shop was closed and the children in bed , and I usually escorted her . |
13 | ( Mary , the mother , intercedes and the children |
14 | Instead he keeps his two wives , and their two maids , and the children with him , and divides the rest of the slaves and the animals into three parties ! |
15 | The slaves grew it and the children spun it and people like Miss Harker were wearing beautiful dresses . |
16 | He swayed slightly and the children knew what it was . |
17 | There were no solid divisions between neighbours , and the children played up and down the length of the house . |
18 | For example , voluntary organizations played , and will continue to play , a central role in the provision of children 's services ; they were also influential in shaping new child care legislation ( for example : The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Children Act , 1908 ; Association of British Adoption Agencies and the 1975 Children Act ) . |
19 | The New Zealand ‘ open ’ adoption approach has not used research to follow up the parties involved beyond the initial years following placement , and the children involved in the arrangement are yet to be interviewed . |
20 | The HCI Captain will spend several hours a day arranging games , sports and competitions , as well as mini discos and the children 's own shows in the evening . |
21 | That 's what you scientists ought to be doing , improving food production , and finding ways to colonize the planets and the moon , instead of messing about with people and the children they have . |
22 | Tawell now found Sara Hart a nagging inconvenience , and so he shifted her and the children to a cottage at Salt Hill near Slough . |
23 | When Sara returned they drank the ale and she brought up the subject of an increased allowance for her and the children . |
24 | On their return , Mrs Holt and the children had tried unsuccessfully to get a reaction with persistent knocking at the Shill 's door . |
25 | The grandparents took on responsibility for the house and the children together : ‘ my mother went to work all the week , she never done no cooking . ’ |
26 | The men and the women and the children . ’ |
27 | At first sight it may appear that all the children are doing the same thing but within each group allowance is made for ability and the children follow their own carefully planned programme at their own pace — this is updated regularly . |
28 | Gentle encouragement is given and the children are expected to do their best , but we did not hear a raised voice or see any need for discipline . |
29 | In cases where women ( and the children they directly control ) collect forest products of one type or another , it is they who are most aware of any deterioration in resource availability , but who are often an inaccessible but important target group in agricultural extension efforts to get conservation methods accepted . |
30 | One example is the combination of a rural petty-bourgeois ancestry and the children of those parents , who live a very different life in a future which is already upon us , as in the two novels already discussed and , to some extent , in Marco Lodoli 's Diario di un millennio che fugge ( Diary of a millennium in flight , 1986 ) ; the protagonists of these fictions seem to belong neither to the past nor to the future , but to be caught in between , in some time-slip between the nineteenth and the twenty-first centuries . |