Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [prep] the children " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the team was so anxious to give recognition at last to the importance of the content of any particular drama , that it seems almost to be reinforcing the dualistic assumption that drama is about attitudes or ideas in the children 's heads to be explored and then expressed through the medium . |
| 2 | ‘ If there is an argument , or problems with the children , or the wife demands that you are open with her , then an ex-boarder will panic . |
| 3 | Just as those who at the pre-school stage help children to learn to read know that a structured effort to consolidate all the skills connected with reading will be made in the primary school itself , so teachers in primary schools need to know what will be built on the skills , knowledge , interests and attitudes of the children whom they will pass on to the next stage . |
| 4 | And ‘ everything ’ means everything : cups of coffee , shoe repairs , evening papers , drinks after work , ice-cream and comics for the children . |
| 5 | Almost without exception , if any comment is made it includes a reference to the immense improvement in the health and manners of the children and to their gains in weight … |
| 6 | But I think the parents should take something for them to do , I mean we used to take colouring books and books for the children to look at and |
| 7 | ‘ This in turn promotes the development of understanding , respect and relationships between the children , adults and traditions . |
| 8 | ‘ When Miss Purdue showed us those baby clothes — the little dresses and nighties for the children of the poor fallen girls in the home on Callendar Street — they seemed so stark and plain . |
| 9 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 10 | And we 're also having a sponsored Tree Best , where we 're hoping that lots of children will come along dressed up as trees , and have raised at least £10 sponsorship each and we 're having performances on a rainforest theme , and a dancer who will be doing a dance for rainforest , and there 's some rainforest type music and things like that , and there 'll be prizes and certificates for the children who are trees , and there 'll be an exhibition that head office are launching . |
| 11 | How far are they a consequence of the teacher 's assumptions about and expectations of the children in question ? |
| 12 | The training which is offered by PGCE courses ( whether at polytechnic or university ) should be devoted to giving graduates some understanding of the nature and needs of the children with whom they are to work . |
| 13 | In a field near the latter , there were traditional games and sports for the children . |
| 14 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 15 | But unless you spent a lot on flowers and balls for the children and on Mary 's birthday present , considering that you had our 15/ and some 5/ or more yes more of your own a month ago , on which no calls but fares need have been made , to which was added about 30/ ( or more ? ) lately , and from it all not 30/ was spent on the dress , you should have a sovereign left : add to this the wages of this month to come , and there should remain , after 35/ to the spectacle man , fully a sovereign , which , considering our needs for the future & also your promises , nay , certainties , at which I laughed , should go to the bank . |
| 16 | There was also evidence that , when a mother adopted a style of discussing rules and feelings with the children when they quarrelled , they were apt to develop in their offspring more mature ways of handling conflict . |
| 17 | He was asked about the secrecy involved and the necessity for the early morning raids , and he answered that both the Society 's and the Council 's major concern was for the interests and feelings of the children , and that necessitated confidentiality . |
| 18 | Restrictions on the visiting of parents and relatives to the children were common , with 71 per cent of the parents subject to limits on the frequency and timing of contact ( p. 163 ) . |
| 19 | Many such referrals are initiated by social services and the legal departments of social services , possibly as a result of growing pressure on these agencies to protect children in accordance with their statutory responsibility and powers under the Children Act . |
| 20 | Second , the way heads responded to PNP , and with varying degrees of success exploited its opportunities and resources for the children 's benefit , must be set firmly against this background . |
| 21 | Chrissy Allott , Catherine Snelling and Nick Spokes of Fullwell Cross Library in Ilford , Essex , have written to me in response to Brough Girling 's recent call for suggestions as to what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 22 | I was keeping a glass of chablis company the other day with Jonathan Hayden and Fiona Brownlee from Pavilion Books , and we got talking about what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 23 | His grandson Robert succeeded him in a bare inheritance , due to provisions made in lands and goods for the children of the third marriage . |
| 24 | Did the camera and sound and lighting technicians peck their wives on the cheek each morning before dropping the children at school , spend the day recording erections and ejaculations , then return to family supper and games with the children ? |
| 25 | There had been gifts of a tree and other decorations , with oranges for the aged women , and toys for the children . |
| 26 | There will be gifts and sweets for the children , but of much more interest to their mums and dads will be the special anniversary sale offers . |
| 27 | Beatrice was married now , with a family of her own , and because times were hard her sister helped her with surreptitious gifts of money ; and with clothes , toys , and treats for the children . |
| 28 | Main areas to be targeted by the research team would be decision-making by reporters and hearings on the children referred to them . |
| 29 | She thought about it without finding any kind of answer , and then she thought about the futures of her nursery-school children and others among the children of Dynmouth . |
| 30 | Outside Um Al-Farajh as she fled , she had met her brother-in-law Mohamed , who had a car , and he returned briefly to her home to get blankets and clothes for the children . |