Example sentences of "child [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just a fact of modern life when children eat out in the street you get litter . |
| 2 | It has long been recognised that women who devote years of their lives to bringing up children lose out in the pension stakes . |
| 3 | On the other hand , it might be seen as an opportunity to enhance family life by the more equal opportunities offered to women to take up employment , as well as bringing up a family ; or by the enriched experiences children bring back into the family as a result of their attendance at nursery school or playgroup . |
| 4 | An children grow up in a flash , |
| 5 | Unless children grow up in a family , they are bound to find it hard to share and , until she starts playing with other children 's toys , she may well think that all toys belong to her . |
| 6 | So children grow up in an atmosphere of harassment and greater poverty . ’ |
| 7 | With the large number of children spread out over the country , it was inevitable that visits were infrequent . |
| 8 | Two children climb down into the hole ( having first borrowed a rope ladder ! ) and try to talk to the creature . |
| 9 | Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate . |
| 10 | The children lie down on the floor and they have to stay absolutely still . |
| 11 | The court heard her ordeal began when she and the children set off with the salesman on what they thought would be a family shopping trip . |
| 12 | Looking anxiously behind them , the children set off down the street with the nanny . |
| 13 | After a fine tea of toast and honey , the children set off down the hill , their eyes wide with wonder . |
| 14 | The children dress up for a saloon in the kind of gear that snooker players or riverboat gamblers wear , with the girls in long dresses . |
| 15 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 16 | And I can see this er this woman with her three children go off to the workhouse and er they was crying but they were waving and then all the neighbours was out waving to them . |
| 17 | The poetic function is also apparent at an early stage : when young children latch on to a phrase and repeat it endlessly , without conveying any information . |
| 18 | ‘ Our children play out on the street and there 's a plan to build a school on land nearby surely we could n't have a busy road where children are going to school ? ’ |