Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [prep] [art] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I have problems with my wife or one of the children , I have to make considerable effort to keep my mind on work , I assure you . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Smith — a pessimist — starts to worry in case it rains , the car breaks down , they are plagued by insects or one of the children gets lost . |
| 3 | One or two of the children have not really understood the concept of evergreen . |
| 4 | Her conclusion was that 20.6 of the children were of high intelligence for whom special provision should be made in central or secondary schools . |
| 5 | But they did not know beforehand that one of the children they were about to take suffered from asthma . |
| 6 | Social workers later discovered that one of the children 's grandmothers had offered to look after them , but was told other arrangements had been made . |
| 7 | Infant teacher has it and asks me to make sure that the Head of Primary knows that one of the children had a fit on the bus this morning . |
| 8 | A patch of dried blood showed on the top where it lay splayed out , and the sight was so pitiful that one of the children began to cry . |
| 9 | Staff and customers comforted each other as police cleared items from the scene ; the cartridges that had been fired , and the pushchair that one of the children had been using . |
| 10 | Although one of the children suffered from tuberculosis , the corporation housing department had told them that they were unlikely to be housed . |
| 11 | They found that 161 of the children were admitted , and for the remaining 200 children the initial decision was that they should not come into care although subsequently a significant proportion did . |
| 12 | Family proceedings are defined in s8(3) and ( 4 ) of the Act and include : ( i ) proceedings under Parts I , II and IV of the Children Act ; ( ii ) matrimonial , domestic violence and adoption proceedings ; ( iii ) proceedings under the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court in relation to children , including wardship . |
| 13 | Er but yes you could put your wife and two children and if your wife is fit to do it she can do it , if she is n't the two children can do it instead or her and one of the children to help each other out . |
| 14 | , James ( 1876–1947 ) , Irish labour leader and nationalist , was born in Toxteth 21 January 1876 , the second son among six children ( there was at least one daughter and one of the children did not survive infancy ) of James Larkin and his wife Mary Anne McNulty , impoverished immigrants from Ulster , and spent his early childhood in Newry at his grandfather 's house . |
| 15 | There was the usual row of fossilized and frozen would-be passengers , and one of the children there shrieked as he saw Darren . |
| 16 | Only three of the couples were black , and five of the children were ‘ mixed race ’ thus further complicating the analysis . |
| 17 | Here she and five of the children were savagely killed by Indians . |
| 18 | ‘ If one of the children is ill it does n't matter because I 'm at home , anyway , ’ she says . |
| 19 | Randy Newman 's stark musical theme gives the tableau a brightened sense of foreboding as one of the children seems to be losing his grip on life . |
| 20 | And then , as one of the children seized a pillow , and began batting the other one over the head , the second girl quickly retaliated . |
| 21 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 22 | When one of the children asks his mam for some coffee she says , " We ca n't afford coffee any more , son . " |
| 23 | One day she was playing her favourite game , pretending to make a garden , when one of the children , Basil , offered to help . |
| 24 | The offences came to light when one of the children told a teacher about her ordeal after breaking down following a television programme about child abuse . |
| 25 | Tucking the little girls up under their light sheets , she could n't prevent tears from coming to her eyes when one of the children placed her thin arms around her neck . |
| 26 | Laura smiled to herself as she remembered their visit to his surgery when one of the children had cut a foot on some glass . |