Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [coord] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more strikingly , some working mothers regard a period at work , particularly if it is part-time , as a welcome respite from the great variety of stresses arising in looking after a home and children . |
| 2 | In a monogamous marriage there are many more claims on time and labour because there is only one woman to do all the work ; looking after a husband and children , tending crops , collecting water , firewood and preparing food . |
| 3 | The testin' of a man is when he has the responsibility of a wife and children . ’ |
| 4 | To sum up on this point : with the advent of a child or children , a woman is bound to have her attentions divided between them and her husband . |
| 5 | Some people of this nature manage to sublimate their feeling in care and platonic affection for a child or children . |
| 6 | He was an old man with a wife and children , I thought . |
| 7 | He should have been like that , happy with a wife and children . |
| 8 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 9 | You should also see a newsagent on your left , so anticipate a man crossing the road with his nose in a newspaper and children darting across with ice-creams or sweeties . ’ |
| 10 | One day there will be a word for a woman without a husband or children that is not pejorative ; a single word that conjures up the image of a strong , sexual and feminine woman who revels in her voluntary freedom . |
| 11 | Why not pass them on to a hospital or children 's home where they will be treasured . |
| 12 | One or two , accompanied by a wife and children , had seemed to regard the tournament as an opportunity for a free family holiday ; and some had even managed to miss the halfway cut , to the great embarrassment of all concerned , except probably Mike Martinez whose twenty-five per cent commission was safe whatever happened . |