Example sentences of "he be a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the castrato comes , I have to sing with him , for I have to teach him his whole part as if he were a child . |
| 2 | Engaged in drowning the woman , Fedorov had been slow to respond to the sudden turn in events , but now he recognized the danger and grabbed Lefevre 's sword , wresting it from his feeble grasp as if he were a child . |
| 3 | as if he were a child of five she had reprimanded him , saying , ‘ Do n't be so personal ; she is Miss Crosbie . |
| 4 | Urian cut him down as if he were a child . |
| 5 | She pulled him to her and held him as though he were a child , kissing away his frown . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course he is a child ! ’ came the quick response , so sharp that a coughing fit inevitably followed . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're gon na be the best lookin' cowboy in the whole parade , ’ his bible-bashing granny tells him when he is a child . |
| 8 | He is a child aping the conventional responses of an adult . |
| 9 | But because he is a child , the Earl of Moray , my half-brother , can rule the country for him . |
| 10 | He 's a child star — a singer . |
| 11 | The greatest wild-flower expert in this country is Dr Miriam Rothschild , who had known Charles since he was a child , and was also a friend of Mollie Salisbury . |
| 12 | He had needed it ever since he was a child . |
| 13 | Prince Charles has been deer stalking since he was a child and takes great pride in a clean kill . |
| 14 | Ken has been into western styling since he was a child . |
| 15 | Dodie Penalosa from the Philippines , who challenges Dave McAuley for the International Boxing Federation 's flyweight title at Wembley Arena tonight , suffered from poliomyelitis when he was a child and has been left with a weak left leg and restricted mobility . |
| 16 | When he was a child and his mother was ill , he thought he could make her better by writing a play . |
| 17 | He was only able to shed that bondage through a charismatic experience which reassured him that he was a child of God . |
| 18 | When he was a child Nigel had thought of peeing as sex . |
| 19 | He was lent to a forester when he was a child . ’ |
| 20 | There were times during his illness , he told me , when he was happier than he 'd been since he was a child . |
| 21 | Although one age regressed subject produced superficially childish drawings , they were nothing like what he actually produced when he was a child . |
| 22 | Parker — his first name was Hugh , if his pals called him Shug or Shuggie — it was his first sore eye , his first fight , if you could call it that , since he was a child ; about six or seven , a girl had beat him up . |
| 23 | He was a child again , wanting everything to be sorted out by an adult . |
| 24 | Mills died on Melia 's 20th birthday and he recalls that when he was a child , Freddie was a boys ' idol and boys used to pretend to be him . |
| 25 | I never understood this until I realized he meant that his characters ' uselessness , indolence and longing were typical of the adults he knew when he was a child . |
| 26 | Josenaldo 's family came from Paraiba when he was a child . |
| 27 | The large , powerful mammal possibly represents his parents when he was a child . |
| 28 | He was a child , he was a Mensch ; he was a massive egotist , he was generous ; he was foolhardy and petrified ; he loved company and loathed it ; he was ambitious and careless ; he was smart but stupid . |
| 29 | Sometimes he thought about Adam when he was a child and what a dear little boy he had been , affectionate and not troublesome . |
| 30 | Imperceptibly the trees must have grown , yet they seemed to Adam no different from when he was a child coming up to fetch the milk and when , on sunless mornings , he had felt a kind of menace from the wood . |