Example sentences of "she [be] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeff loves it ; he strokes his hand over her head as if she were a child . |
| 2 | One of them would come and talk to me as I sat beside Aunt Louise , and discuss her with me as if she were a child . |
| 3 | I led her upstairs , took off her wet clothes , bathed and dried her ; she accepting my ministrations automatically , as if she were a child and I her mother . |
| 4 | She did n't know how it happened , but she found herself in Mrs Lennox 's arms , who comforted her as though she were a child . |
| 5 | ‘ There , there , ’ he said , as if she were a child herself . |
| 6 | Ruth felt small and insecure , as if she were a child again . |
| 7 | She could not escape the thought that she felt exactly as if she were a child being taken out for a treat by a kindly uncle . |
| 8 | He did kiss her , on her forehead , and then stroked her hair gently , as if she were a child or a kitten . |
| 9 | You even talk to a woman as if she were a child . |
| 10 | Penry ushered her into the kitchen , unzipping her jacket as though she were a child . |
| 11 | She looked down at him , piteously , as if she were the child . |
| 12 | It was as if she were the child , cornered and reasoned into giving an explanation , and Lucy the teacher with all of the patience and the pressure working for her . |
| 13 | ‘ She 's a child . |
| 14 | Nick said savagely , ‘ She 's a child . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's a child , then ? ’ |
| 16 | She 's a child . ’ |
| 17 | Mrs Davies said of Laura : ‘ She 's a child that wants to live . |
| 18 | she 's a child of ten if you remember |
| 19 | Yeah he said I 've forgotten about it Blue 's forgotten about it he said , but she wo n't let it rest he said he said it 's Well she 's a child , she 's only a child Geoff that 's |
| 20 | I do , she 's a child mind . |
| 21 | SHE 'S the child of two movie stars . |
| 22 | ‘ She is a child , she does not know the world . |
| 23 | She is being asked to bear adult responsibilities but , because she is a child she is not , at the same time , granted any of the privileges of adulthood . |
| 24 | She is a child who has grown old before her time . |
| 25 | She is a child of nature , likened to several animals , particularly , in some cases , to their young : a weasel ( 3234 ) , a wether ( 3249 ) , a kid and a calf ( 3260 ) and a colt ( 3263 ) ; and also to flowers ( 3268 ) . |
| 26 | She is a child , but then , neither you nor her father would let that stop you . |
| 27 | She is the child of this paper unless I indicate otherwise . |
| 28 | She looked so like my daughter did at her age , and the pleasure she gave me compensated for the lack of time I had with her mother when she was a child . |
| 29 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 30 | When asked what she wanted to be when she was a child , she admits : ‘ Probably famous , like every other kid . |