Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [art] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I worry about the children , ’ she said to Daphne . |
| 2 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 3 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |
| 4 | We always had books and newspapers in the house , and I talked to the children about them every day . |
| 5 | I thought of the children in the casbah with flies crawling on their eyes but I was afraid to mention this in case Flora thought me naive . |
| 6 | When I came back , I went to the children 's room , to see if they needed me , and I listened for a moment at their door . |
| 7 | Well , I think for the children 's sake , I 'm going to stay put until Christmas , but after that I 'm really going to have to try and find some sort of stability for my children . |
| 8 | Here are three I wrote with the children . |
| 9 | I sat in the children 's ward , the only one left , and nursed a little boy who had once again returned , but who had developed a whooping cough complication on ‘ the day ’ itself . |
| 10 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 11 | " I 'd like you to give me the wedding-dress you got from the children . " |
| 12 | So she spent almost all her time in her bedroom , which she shared with the children . |
| 13 | It requires the teacher to demonstrate the significance which she places upon the children 's resources and judgements . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm glad you stopped for the children . |
| 15 | What arrangement have you made for the children if they are ill or on holiday ? |
| 16 | She played with the children in their street when they had the time which was n't often and with diplomatic children , a cosmopolitan lot , like mine , only that Constanza was gang-leader . |
| 17 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you to look after the children while I fetch him . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ If you look at the children of very rich parents you will see that they are nearly always an unhappy , shoddy lot , ’ he says . |
| 20 | She always found the supper she cooked for the children irresistible and when she gave them bacon and baked beans she would swoop down on their plates like a vulture on a battlefield . |
| 21 | Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward . |
| 22 | She herself had long abandoned Highbury to be with her Miss Dinah ; not only was she devoted to the children , but she could make a little money by letting her own house . |
| 23 | Then she screamed at the children . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you talking about the children ? ’ |
| 25 | On other occasions Rita found , as she did with the children , that a certain sharp authority was more effective . |
| 26 | Though to be really professional she should make corrections in red as she did in the children 's books . |
| 27 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 28 | She brought as a present a portrait of Mother Mary as she appeared to the children at Fatima , executed by someone of sentimental disposition , and a statue of the Virgin Mary , the mould fashioned by someone of a melancholy and austere frame of mind . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's time to go to bed , ’ she said to the children . |
| 30 | It does urge you to take along the children , but bump them gently . |