Example sentences of "parent [prep] [noun sg] children " in BNC.

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1 This recognition is one of several premonitions of loss which accompany the ageing of parents for adult children , and the elderly person concerned .
2 Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights .
3 Similarly Hughes , Wikeley and Nash ( 1990 ) investigated what parents of infant children perceived as the characteristics of a good primary school .
4 The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently .
5 Parents with problem children should stop them from taking canned drinks , coloured squash , sweets , biscuits and cake for a week .
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