Example sentences of "[prep] the children 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building , which was owned by the church , was made up of a dozen self-contained flats rented out to respectable young women who had gone through the children 's home and school of St Mary 's Convent in Bermondsey . |
| 2 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 3 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 4 | ‘ After some months in the children 's home , John David dies . |
| 5 | They would like to keep in touch with each other and with their older sister who wants to stay in the children 's home . |
| 6 | Later , when Anne was in bed , Marilla said to her brother , ‘ She must go back to the children 's home tomorrow . ’ |
| 7 | As a last resort , she and her son went back to the Children 's Home . |
| 8 | The people at the children 's home were very kind , but it 's not very exciting to live in a place like that , is it ? ’ |