Example sentences of "[noun pl] and child [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll never forget the sight of babies with shrapnel wounds and children scrambling in the dirt for food . |
| 2 | Nor is it known how parents and children fare in the families thus created . |
| 3 | Among the Bangladeshis , the notion of interdependence of family members — both within and between generations — was clearer , underpinning the practices of parents and children sleeping in the same room and the extended family living together . |
| 4 | In some areas , new work is being developed specifically aimed at helping families and children cope with the impact of HIV on their lives . |
| 5 | Opportunities for wives and children to contribute to the household income varied from place to place , though they were everywhere low paid . |
| 6 | Around them women and men and children worked in the hayfield , gathering and loading , raking and stacking . |
| 7 | In London alone there are between 5,000 and 6,000 totally deaf adults and children travelling about the roads daily . |
| 8 | The Buid say that the growth and well-being of their crops and children derive from the spirits of the earth . |
| 9 | The women and children rushed for the shelter of the riverbank . |
| 10 | At the time of weddings , a group of women and children came across the fields with baskets and scarves full of sweets and rice which they touched down under the holy tree to be blessed , before going back the same way they 'd come . |
| 11 | Gone are the days when women and children scrabbled along the furrows in the wake of a plough or simple digger collecting the fruits of the earth by hand . |
| 12 | Thulani Davis describes policemen setting dogs on black women and children campaigning for the right to buy a cup of coffee at the local Woolworths , and educated black men being asked to abandon French courses at university . |
| 13 | passed women and children lying by the roadside with closed eyes and ghastly , pale faces . |
| 14 | There are old women and children sitting in the pouring rain . ’ |
| 15 | Here some of the younger women had thrown down their tools and gathered in a big circle , singing and dancing , while older women and children watched from the sidelines , shouting encouragement . |