Example sentences of "[pers pn] to [art] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Howe , Bus Driver , says it was the bus company 's way of saying thank you to the children for their good behaviour . |
| 2 | On Tuesdays , Dad took me to the children 's cinema , on Wednesdays , Pop took me to Sally Carmichael 's dancing class , and on Saturdays my Nan would take me to the variety show at the Sheffield Empire . |
| 3 | The problem with approaching children 's reading from a ‘ classics ’ approach — identify the best , the books ‘ of transparently permanent greatness ’ ( Rosenheim , 1980 , p.5 1 ) and give them to the children — is that it places emphasis on the book , on the literary work , and not on the needs and tastes of the individual reader . |
| 4 | And she wrote stories , then read them to the children after tea . |
| 5 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 6 | But he said his efforts were futile and Farrow would say ‘ terrible things ’ about him to the children . |
| 7 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 8 | If you 're keeping your spouse because you have the assets and he or she does n't , there 's no good leaving nothing to the spouse , unless that spouse is rich in his or her own right Rich in comparative terms , then there may be good reasons not to live him or her anything because you 'd rather leave it to the children . |