Example sentences of "[v-ing] their [adj] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | A long-standing friendship with an Asian family who were neighbours of mine led to my being involved in the process of Statementing their youngest child , Balbinder Singh . |
| 2 | Premier Brands of Liverpool for the cash to hire the cab ; Frank Brown and the pupils of Musselburgh Grammar School for their hard work and donations ; staff and pupils at Prenton High School , Moreton near Liverpool for their donations ; Sean 's wife Angie for not producing their second child until Sean arrived home ; Susan , my long suffering wife , who never batted an eyelid as this project unfolded and gave me lots of encouragement . |
| 3 | In his analysis , Hewlett-Packard Co , Sun Microsystems Inc and Intel Corp were out for blood , DEC and Compaq Computer Corp started eating their own children and ‘ the press , in a striking example of pack journalism , turned vicious , ’ playing up all the bad stuff — most notably MIPS ' financial distress — never mentioning the $50m it has in the bank — though see page three for MIPS ' disastrous results . |
| 4 | As I mentioned early the , the city of Sermaria it was under siege and the army of Seria was encamped all around it , Ben Hadad was a great warrior , he would of been the , the Alexander or the Napoleon of his day and he had set up this encampment around the city of Sermaria , nobody could get in , nobody could get out and very quickly the stocks of food and water er were used up , rationing would of been introduced but it only lasted for a certain period , they 'd got to the stage it tells us in the previous chapter that er , that a donkeys head was sold for eighty shekel 's of silver and some folk had even got to the , had sunk to the level of cannibalism , of eating their own children and the city was , when they heard about this they were in an uproar and they started blaming god and in between the city of Sermaria of all its suffering and hopelessness and helplessness and the army encamped about with all of their supplies , there was this area of no mans land in which they were caught up four men who were leapers and they were trapped there , they did n't want to go over to the Serians because they 'd be killed , they did n't want to go back into the city because they were n't allowed there and any way what was the point , they 'd only die of starvation in there and so these four men are caught up in no man 's land and yet their no better off than people in the city , now god had promised deliverance , through his serve and Eliger he had promised deliverance , Eliger said tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour shall be sold for a se shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Semaria , he said the gates are gon na be open , there 's gon na be food and its gon na be a reasonable price and it says the royal officer who 's hand the king was leaning on said the man of god said behold , if the lord shall make windows in heaven could such a thing be , he said do n't talk stupid man , how can such a thing happen for us ? , he did n't believe what god servant said and Eliger brings out to him a terrible judgment , he says because of your unbelief you will see it , but your not participate in it but lets look at these four men for a moment , cos that 's where our real interest lies this morning , I just wanted to say three things in their experience , the first things is that they were amazed that , at what they found , because after they come together and they talk about it and they said well what shall we do and they weighed the pro 's and the cons and Semaria does n't look very attractive with its cannibalism , they said well the least if we stay here were gon na die , if we go into Semaria we 'll die , lets go down to the Serein camp , the worse they can do to us is put us to death and were dying men any way , but they may just take pity on us , we maybe allowed to grope around in their dustbins and get some scraps of food , they may at least allow us that , and so they make their way down just as evening is falling , they make their way down to the Serein lines and when they get there , they are amazed at what they find , you see their condition was helpless and hopeless , they were dying men any way , they were lepers , but they were dying of starvation , that was far more imminent than their leprosy , their problems and their needs were greater than themselves , they could not meet their own needs , their problems and their needs were greater than their government , the king in Semaria and all of his court could not meet the needs of his people and then in verse five , we read something there , they arose at twilight to go to the camp of Aramians or the Serein 's and when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Serein 's behold there was no one there , they expected to at least meet a guard , there would surely be somebody on sentry duty even if the rest of the soldiers had gone in to their tents and were perhaps getting ready for their , for the evening , going to bed or whatever they were gon na be doing , having their evening meal , there would at least be somebody on guard duty , but when they got there , there was no one there , god had stepped in , god had intervened and the good news of the Christian gospel is that god has intervened in our , in the midst of our helplessness , in the midst of our hopelessness , god has intervened , he had stepped in to history , so often you 'll hear folks say , well why does n't god do something , why does god allow this to happen , why does god allow that one , why does n't he do something all they really show by that comment is their own ignorance , because god has done something , god has intervened , listen to what it says in John three sixteen , for god so loved the world that he gave , he 's only son and the er , the er apostle Paul and he 's writing to the Gallations , in chapter four and in verses four and five hear what he says there , but when the time had fully come god sent his son , born of a woman , born under law to redeem those under law that we might receive the full rights of son , er of sons , god has done something , he 's sent his son Jesus Christ into this world in fact his done the greatest thing he could do , he has done the very ultimate thing , he has sent his son into the world that 's the greatest intervention god could ever have made , it was far greater than , than just intervening in sm , in some small local event , were you see some catastrophe happening and you say well why does n't god do something there , or there 's a war situation going on in some other part of the world , well why does n't god step in and stop it , god has stepped in , not in a local situation , not in some er passing problem or need but he 's stepped into the greatest way possible by sending his son Jesus Christ into the world to dye for men and woman , to take away sin , to pay the price that god 's righteousness demands for sin so god has intervened and his intervention has changed the whole situation , its brought a whole new complexion on things , its changed the colour completely , no longer is the world now under darkness and in , and in pending judgment in doom , because Jesus Christ came and he took that judgment and that , that condemnation upon himself , he said I 've not come to condemn the world he said its already condemned , its already under judgement , the sword of Damocles is already hanging over the world and Jesus Christ came in and to take that judgment and that condemnation on himself and when he died there on the cross and rose again , there came that burst of light in a world that had been shrouded in blackness and darkness , a world that had been shrouded in sin suddenly for the first time sees the light , god has paid for himself the price of sin , god has intervened and changed the whole situation and the message of the gospel is that if you and I allow that intervention to effect us personally , then like those four men surely we too are amazed at what we 've found . |
| 5 | Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly to mind , along with its unfinished business . |
| 6 | By modifying children 's more difficult behaviour , they become more rewarding to their parents , and mothers and fathers who have been at the stage of rejecting and even abusing their difficult children find they can enjoy the experience of being a parent . |
| 7 | Others included Cecil Parkinson , whose devotion ensured his survival even after an undistinguished ministerial career and despite his former mistress presenting their illegitimate child to the press . |
| 8 | It was later converted into a better dwelling , but while they were rearing their eight children during the 1590s and early 1600s Thomas and his wife must have found life hard and unpromising . |
| 9 | Or are we seeing yet another example of the application of double standards , with Ministers providing no money for the public sector , while sending their own children to school in the private sector ? |
| 10 | THE wife of record-breaking bankrupt Kevin Maxwell proudly announced a nice little dividend for the troubled tycoon yesterday — she 's expecting their fifth child . |
| 11 | The couple have four children aged between seven and three and Derek 's wife Dawn , 26 , is expecting their fifth child next month . |
| 12 | He and his blonde wife , Adrienne , a Klanswoman who is expecting their first child next month , now have to be careful , they say . |
| 13 | Les , 61 , whose wife Tracy , 40 , is expecting their first child , has stopped smoking since the health scare that led him to quit a show last year . |
| 14 | There he 'd met another woman whom he eventually married and she was then expecting their first child . |
| 15 | There 's been a lot of publicity recently about parents teaching their own children , rather formal things . |
| 16 | Are you in favour of parents teaching their own children ? |
| 17 | There 's been a lot of publicity recently about parents teaching their own children , rather formal things . |
| 18 | Are you in favour of parents teaching their own children ? |
| 19 | And we 've generally been moving already with our big investment that we 've already got in Child Care , let's not forget that , towards this philosophy of that 's enshrined in the Children Act , which is building up parental responsibility and encouraging and supporting parents containing their own children , rather than being forced to give them up . |
| 20 | Few authorities were felt to have a coherent policy on supporting their older children . |
| 21 | He said that one would not expect a person found guilty of treating their own child cruelly to be allowed their liberty at once . |
| 22 | Staff at the hospital accept that if parents felt pressured into treating their own children on the wards then they something should be done . |
| 23 | And years of financial demands of giving their only child round-the-clock care from birth had worn them down . |
| 24 | JAPAN 'S young women , like their sisters in other rich countries before them , are now marrying later , putting off having their first child longer and then choosing to have fewer children in all . |
| 25 | For example , in 1964 , the average age of mothers having their first child was 24 years , by 1980 it had risen by 6 months and by 1989 it stood at 25.3 . |
| 26 | Factors precipitating a search for birth parents include : adolescence — traditionally a time of role confusion when self-identity can come to the fore ; being unable to complete forms about family medical history and changes in personal status such as getting married , having their own children or adoptive parents dying . |
| 27 | While I was up at university , an awful lot of students from wealthy backgrounds were fiddling the dole somehow , and I reckon that the politicians and civil servants think that all they 're in fact doing is cutting their own children 's pocket money . |
| 28 | The gallery contains a fine series of carved ‘ Beautiful Madonnas ’ mainly from the 14 and 15C , which illustrate well the so-called ‘ soft style ’ — elegant swaying Virgins , regarding their wriggling children with a gentle smile . |
| 29 | Booked by the hour , the previous occupants were sitting by the table watching their six-year-old child poke a cue at the remaining balls . |
| 30 | You must understand that , upon discovery of such an unsavoury correspondence , your master and mistress could not possibly take the risk of leaving their young children in your hands . |