Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] their children " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Household Survey for example defines the family today as ‘ a married couple living alone or with their children , or a lone parent with his or her children , in each case the children being never married ’ . |
| 2 | The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades . |
| 3 | At the other extreme , some grandparents are forced by circumstances , or by their children 's choices , to behave as substitute mothers and fathers . |
| 4 | Their main pleasure seemed to be in the beautiful garments they made for each other and for their children . |
| 5 | For changes to occur , field social workers have to form a partnership with their residential colleagues , so that together they can make available as comprehensive a service as possible to families in need of help with and for their children . |
| 6 | Black men and white men who care for the country , and for their children 's future , are working at it . |
| 7 | In some LEAs there are qualified teachers whose job is to liaise between the school and the home , by visiting the child 's family at home , seeing parents if they visit the school , and by organising activities , both during and after school hours , to encourage parental involvement with the school and with their children 's education . |
| 8 | and with their children in Hawaii , Xmas 1990 . |
| 9 | and with their children and and their pet labrador . |
| 10 | Of their fields , of their homes , of their bones , and into their children . |
| 11 | The couple is expected to set up a separate residence for themselves on or shortly after marriage ( that is , and has long been , a general European pattern ) , and the chief obligations of the spouses are to each other and to their children , and only after that to their own families of origin . |
| 12 | In the next generation Grey 's daughter Bridget married Bowles 's son Thomas , and among their children was the poet William Lisle Bowles . |
| 13 | The hosiery industry is remarkable for the fact that the early framework knitters were men assisted by their womenfolk as seamers and by their children in the hard times of the Luddite troubles . |
| 14 | Masturbation is freely practised , even in cells shared by three men and usually homosexual encounters are possible , but the real loss is not genital sex but the small intimacies that freedom makes possible … the hugging , the kissing , the cuddling , the skin contact , the smell not only of their woman but of their children after a bath . |