Example sentences of "[prep] a child 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feet were by the door , small , ill-formed , like wax models of a child 's that had passed through flame and were partially melted . |
| 2 | The fire-light danced merrily on this , and really ( setting all taste but that of a child 's aside ) it gave a richness of colouring to that side of the room . |
| 3 | From its size the experts think your pen was probably part of a child 's set . |
| 4 | ( One of the very few to leave for other employment was Emily Picken , who had been offered a post as matron of a children 's home . |
| 5 | This decision is to be left to the governors of the school , but the Department of Education and Science is recommending as wide a definition as possible , to include legal guardians , foster parents and the head of a children 's home when the child is in care . |
| 6 | He ate vast quantities of aïoli : his firm , plump chin gleamed with it , like a child 's , approached with a buttercup in search of an affinity for butter . |
| 7 | She described the Americans on the moon , satellites and space travel , and his eyes widened with delighted wonder , like a child 's , as he said : ‘ You 're pulling my leg . |
| 8 | ‘ Like a child 's , ’ he whispered . |
| 9 | The Bolshoi regime seems similarly hidebound , with Tsar Grigorovich running the world 's largest ballet company like a children 's home . |
| 10 | This Renaissance castle had until recently served as a children 's home . |
| 11 | Doug Lawson , principal officer for children 's services at Cheshire County Council says Appleton House is considered too large and too institutional to continue as a children 's home . |
| 12 | The boy was convicted of 71 offences , including 40 charges of burglary , after absconding from a children 's home . |
| 13 | The boy , from a children 's home in east Belfast , was said to have taken over £1,200 in the two robberies at Ballyhackamore in the past week . |
| 14 | In the words of the headmaster , this is a school which is ‘ more interested in a child 's today than his tomorrow — in where the child is now in relation to where he was , rather than in relation to our expectations of where he ought to be ’ . |
| 15 | Danny was living in a children 's home . |
| 16 | Another girl , placed in a children 's home at 13 after her mother had a nervous breakdown and her father left for another woman , described her shock at finding it was also a place of ‘ correction ’ for young offenders . |
| 17 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 18 | It came to Noreen 's rescue when she was just fifteen , pregnant and living in a Children 's Home with little hope of anywhere else to go . |
| 19 | Porter had been raised in a children 's home from the time he was two years old . |
| 20 | Pakenham , born of a Catholic mother and Protestant father in Dublin , spent the first nine years of his life in a children 's home , his mother dying shortly after his birth . |
| 21 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 22 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 23 | A SOCIAL services chief issued an appeal yesterday for the bit-part actress Yasmin Gibson to contact them about the future of her Home Alone daughter , being cared for in a children 's home . |
| 24 | He had been in a children 's home |
| 25 | quite a coincidence your experience of working in a children 's home |
| 26 | The incident that led to Joanna 's death happened outside a children 's home in Cheltenham . |
| 27 | In some cases the first three years of life are spent in this ward before transfer to a children 's home . ’ |
| 28 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
| 29 | ‘ My husband lived practically next door to a children 's home when he was young and had quite a few friends in there , ’ said Jackie . |
| 30 | CARE workers at a children 's home were unaware that a 15-year-old girl in their charge was going out to work as a prostitute . |