Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a children be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases the first three years of life are spent in this ward before transfer to a children 's home . ’ |
| 2 | They left the foster mother 's home on 19 June , and after a period in a children 's home they have been placed with different foster parents . |
| 3 | The offences are alleged to have taken place at a children 's home in Sunderland where the boy was a resident . |
| 4 | This decision is to be left to the governors of the school , but the Department of Education and Science is recommending as wide a definition as possible , to include legal guardians , foster parents and the head of a children 's home when the child is in care . |
| 5 | Pakenham , born of a Catholic mother and Protestant father in Dublin , spent the first nine years of his life in a children 's home , his mother dying shortly after his birth . |
| 6 | ‘ My husband lived practically next door to a children 's home when he was young and had quite a few friends in there , ’ said Jackie . |
| 7 | ( One of the very few to leave for other employment was Emily Picken , who had been offered a post as matron of a children 's home . |
| 8 | The Bolshoi regime seems similarly hidebound , with Tsar Grigorovich running the world 's largest ballet company like a children 's home . |