Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] child 's " in BNC.

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1 ‘ YOU always get something to take away with you in the Children 's Address . ’
2 I want to know if any of your readers can help me with a child 's pattern with a yoke .
3 He died of distemper while I was away at St Aubyn 's ; the news overwhelmed me with a child 's grief .
4 If they seem to cause no problems , you can include them in the child 's diet .
5 Nevertheless , if the court 's powers are to be meaningful , there must come a point at which the court , while not disregarding the child 's wishes , can override them in the child 's own best interests , objectively considered .
6 On Tuesdays , Dad took me to the children 's cinema , on Wednesdays , Pop took me to Sally Carmichael 's dancing class , and on Saturdays my Nan would take me to the variety show at the Sheffield Empire .
7 The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother .
8 An elderly widow who was robbed , attacked , and raped by a gang of youths was moved to sheltered dwellings with the help of the police , visited by policewomen from the unit at least once a week , and taken regularly to visit the family of one of the policewomen , which adopted her as the children 's granny .
9 This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny .
10 But the girl remembered Ramsey taking the evacuees round him in the children 's corner , and sitting on one of the low chairs meant for a child , and talking to them naturally and with an obvious pleasure .
11 I keep it for the children 's medicine drink . ’
12 I 'd swear you could do it with a child 's hoop . ’
13 Is it in that child 's interest for it to go home or is it in the child 's interest er for the responsibility to lie with the local authority or the High Court ?
14 Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me .
15 Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally .
16 But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent .
17 If there is a problem try to see it from the child 's point of view .
18 A s8 order will normally come to an end when the child reaches the age of 16 although the court can extend it to the child 's eighteenth birthday if the circumstances of the case are exceptional ( ss9(6) , 91(10) ( 11 ) ) .
19 I used to hum a tune and strum it on a child 's dulcimer , painfully seeking out the names of the notes .
20 Very few of the works on display provide us with the child 's perspective on the word , a notable exception being Sonia Boyce 's arresting ‘ Big Woman 's Talk ’ ( 1984 ) where the sense of scale is ordered in a way that the child 's view is paramount .
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