Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] children 's [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They also asked about the children 's behaviour .
2 She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her .
3 No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it
4 Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward .
5 Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire .
6 Beth feared for the children 's sight as she lurched forward to grab the branch .
7 Tongues solicitously tutted over the black band still stitched to Melanie 's sleeve for they all ( as they would have in the village ) knew of the children 's arrival and how they had been orphaned .
8 This resulted in the children 's department undertaking general family case work and finding they lacked the power to provide much constructive help in many cases .
9 When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door .
10 And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity .
11 If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining .
12 I sat in the children 's ward , the only one left , and nursed a little boy who had once again returned , but who had developed a whooping cough complication on ‘ the day ’ itself .
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