Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't treat me as a child ! ’ she cried scornfully , ‘ You know that I love you , and that 's why I 'm being packed off . ’ |
| 2 | For me as a child , Glasgow was its buildings ; the city was physically oppressive in a way that is painfully memorable . |
| 3 | It was an extension — or so I thought — of the tact she had always shown to me as a child that she did n't impose . |
| 4 | He took me as a child to the sights |
| 5 | ‘ Because you still think of me as a child who needs your psychoanalysis ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But he thinks of me as a child , someone too unsophisticated and inexperienced for him . ’ |
| 7 | Of course I am not advocating a return to the kind of education that so wounded me as a child . |
| 8 | that held me as a child , when home from term |
| 9 | How strict Tata had always been with me as a child ; even taken the strap to me on a couple of occasions , once for pinching ‘ fress ’ , or buns as Mother called them , behind his back — he did n't mind how much I took from the shop as long as I asked — and once for saying ‘ Damn ’ when I cut my finger peeling an apple . |
| 10 | She asked them about the child and they said they had just found him . |
| 11 | THIS IS NOT because I climbed them as a child . |
| 12 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 13 | She gathered up the bags and pushed them towards the child ; and when he reluctantly handed her the two pennies she said , ‘ Thank you very much . |
| 14 | She then told me of a child she had had who had been still-born . |
| 15 | I 'm Parish Priest and yet the pair of them treat me like a child . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I wish you 'd stop treating me like a child , Angharad , ’ she said irritably . |
| 17 | He treats me like a child . ’ |
| 18 | That still does n't give you the right to treat me like a child , ’ Robyn persisted . |
| 19 | But he treats me like a child . |
| 20 | ‘ He — he treats me like a child . |
| 21 | Hazel , Hazel thinks you should n't treat me like a child ! |
| 22 | ‘ I would n't do that , girl ; he 'd fight you for the child . |
| 23 | ‘ If there is one worry about it , it is that the national curriculum and the attainment targets will only partly tell you about a child . |
| 24 | He was pressed for a date and told ‘ before tonight I always thought of you as a child — but you 're not . ’ |
| 25 | Clearly , if I speak from my critical parent state too often , patronising you and moralising at you , directing you as a child , and you retaliate in a parent state and attempt to direct me back as a child , we 've got a ‘ crossed transaction ’ . |
| 26 | Then they condemn themselves as well and until society can say that 's perfectly alright , that 's a good situation to be in , whoever it is you 're living with , and that you as a child are okay and are valued then the children themselves will be okay and I think the Sco , we lose some of the erm secondary deprivation and emotional deprivation that children in single parent families |
| 27 | could , could you tell us about the ways in which you as a child used to try and get some money for yourself and the family ? |
| 28 | Then I need to think about all the strangeness that happened to you as a child ; my firstborn son has already told me something of your life , and of the questions you have for me . ’ |
| 29 | You said she saw you with the child and there 's not two Aggie Winkowskis kickin' around this quarter , or the town itself , and somebody would have told her where you lived . ’ |
| 30 | Have you someone who can assist and support you with the children ? |