Example sentences of "[num] children [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After unsettled early histories all six children came into the care of the local authority in June 1989 . |
| 2 | The dial had a painted face that showed a scene of rural bliss at sunset : a family sitting outside their thatched cottage while three children gambolled on the grass . |
| 3 | The three children sat round the table and discussed how they were to spend the day . |
| 4 | Mrs Ann Marie O'Donnell of St. Serf 's Parish spoke of Self Control and Holiness and four of her five children spoke of the change of heart in his or her own life . |
| 5 | More than 2,700 children went through the paediatrics department at Middlesbrough General in the five months she was there . |
| 6 | Then , " two children came into the room and came over to me asking for water . |
| 7 | Compared with 10 years ago , when it was estimated that at least 70 per cent of two-parent households with two children came within the scheme , less than half of two-parent families now qualify , according to the author of the study , Michael Murphy , a statistician at the London School of Economics . |
| 8 | two children ran towards the church . |
| 9 | Her cuts were treated , her bruises examined , and then she and the two children sat in the lounge of one of the private wards , sipping tea and waiting for Bodie to come and pick them up . |
| 10 | Madge looked at the four children clustered in the hallway . |
| 11 | Just over one hundred children came to the Christmas Party that was held on Saturday 16th December , on a day remembered for its appalling weather . |