Example sentences of "children [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not always well treated as children ourselves . |
| 2 | Rabscuttle was full of tricks and games and quite soon he was running and playing just as if he had been one of the children himself . |
| 3 | If the baby 's grandmother is young and has young children herself they may all be brought up together , just like one generation . |
| 4 | She had no children herself . |
| 5 | My sister Ann she 's delivered a couple of children herself . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've had ten children myself , so I know all about them , ’ she said . |
| 7 | As the father of young children myself , I often wonder at the adult-oriented visual images , themes and preoccupations which seem to dominate so much of our children 's publishing , and the failure to recognise that today 's generations of youngsters have grown up conditioned by the immediate access and instant gratification provided by the likes of television and computer games . |
| 8 | You know I 've had er I 've I 've had seven children myself . |
| 9 | If I had children myself they 'd get the best of gear . |
| 10 | ‘ I have had four children myself and I was a smoker before they were born . |
| 11 | Instead of determining the sex of your children yourself , as bees , crocodiles and other creatures do , you leave it to a genetic lottery between X and Y chromosomes . |
| 12 | You 've never had any children yourself , so how can you look after her ? ’ |
| 13 | At least 60%of the individuals being cared for by ACET in Tayside also have children themselves . |
| 14 | . ’ Another woman , repeating with incredulity that such things could happen while the Führer was standing by his soldiers at the Front in the fight against Bolshevism , said blessings would go out from the crucifixes in the schools ‘ not only for the children themselves , but also for our Führer and his soldiers , who are our sons , fathers , and brothers ’ . |
| 15 | Yet it is the children themselves who often seem better able to deal with the situation . |
| 16 | Then also talking to children themselves about the death of others is a subject that adults shy away from very strongly . |
| 17 | If access is seen as part of the right of autonomy of the individual , one might ask why parents , rather than the children themselves , should have access . |
| 18 | This is due in part to an increase in the proportion of births outside marriage and of mothers who bring up these children themselves as well as to less pressure on young women and men to ‘ legitimise ’ a conception with a ‘ shot-gun wedding ’ . |
| 19 | In one case , for example , Reepham magistrates in Norfolk sent two brothers to prison for two months as a penalty for not supporting their mother , although both men were close on sixty and had wives and children themselves . |
| 20 | The children themselves brought berries , charcoal etc and found out how pigments work , how paint is made and how its properties can be changed , before putting their knowledge to artistic use . |
| 21 | In the meantime , families like Peter and Paul 's have to think carefully about whether to have children themselves , or not . |
| 22 | The children themselves must not be forgotten in the headlong race to reach attainment targets . |
| 23 | National and local variations in education , training and experience between the teachers employed to implement school curricula are almost as great as between children themselves . |
| 24 | Beds enable the children themselves to be patients . |
| 25 | The teacher may initiate ideas through the provision of new and varied equipment and the use of stories or rhymes , but the development of the play arises from the spontaneous interest of the children themselves . |
| 26 | Sometimes a cake may be sent to school for the children to share ; sharing a cake for a large group of children would not be done by the children themselves , though it might turn into a spontaneous counting activity . |
| 27 | Making things to fit the children themselves can be tricky , and children will probably need the help of a friend or an adult . |
| 28 | Ideas of height and age are best explored using things in the class or the children themselves . |
| 29 | Each collection will offer different properties and in any sorting activity the criteria chosen will mainly depend on the children themselves , though other qualities might be mentioned by their teacher . |
| 30 | The items can be gathered by children themselves , for example , shiny things ; things of a particular colour ; things of a particular texture ( rough , smooth , prickly ) ; particular shapes ( rounded , with holes , pointed , with straight sides , spirals , etc. ) ; things we use in the kitchen or bathroom ; things that we use to draw with or cook with . |