Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] child 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also asked about the children 's behaviour . |
| 2 | Red walls of baked earth , crenellated like a child 's fort ; neat , red courtyards ; a red street with a line of palm trees down the centre . |
| 3 | I also referred to the child 's role as a productive member of the family ; children often take on real responsibility at an early age . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As Carolyn started to read a look of absorption came over the child 's face , and her thumb slotted into her mouth . |
| 6 | It tumbled over her slim straight shoulders in deep shining waves that reached almost to her waist , and her beautiful , heart-shaped face shone like a child 's . |
| 7 | Coming into a village he brazenly replied to a child 's ‘ Heil Hitler ’ with something entirely different ! |
| 8 | No I walked through the children 's department one day and I saw this necklace with these beads hanging from it |
| 9 | This enables organizations to continue the same system with salary increases , titles , superior offices and furnishings , cars , expense allowances , stock options , etc. , which are , after all , only more sophisticated examples of the process which began with the child 's first jellybean . |
| 10 | Miss Honey marvelled at the child 's lack of conceit and self-consciousness . |
| 11 | It arose from the child 's writing , from her awareness of audience and her commitment to communicating with them . |
| 12 | The thing which had seemed so hard was simple now , the gulf that had appeared unbridgable shrank to a child 's leap , and vanished as he stepped over it . |
| 13 | The girl beside her took it and puffed over the child 's head . |
| 14 | The family were nearing Cork on their way home from a holiday in England and Wales — during which they called on the children 's grandparents in Milton Keynes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 17 | How do you think they felt about the children 's adventures : a ) immediately afterwards b ) when they met Flupper c ) when they found out about super penicillin ? |
| 18 | Beth feared for the children 's sight as she lurched forward to grab the branch . |
| 19 | Tongues solicitously tutted over the black band still stitched to Melanie 's sleeve for they all ( as they would have in the village ) knew of the children 's arrival and how they had been orphaned . |
| 20 | The stream was marked with a blue line and what looked like a child 's drawing of a ladder lay across it at one point . |
| 21 | My chest ached with a child 's fear while I cringed in the deeply recessed doorway of North Three . |
| 22 | Under such circumstances characteristics of adult language input would be reflected in differential rates of progress only to the extent that they coincided with the child 's existing ‘ style ’ of learning language ( Gleitman et al . |
| 23 | But equally if a school does not matter to a pupil because the school itself does not try hard enough , there is as much risk to the achievement of a sound education as would arise if all the fault lay with the child 's own family . |
| 24 | He sang in a child 's voice that was beginning to break , so that it was tuneless , the register awkward , the pitch uncertain . |
| 25 | This resulted in the children 's department undertaking general family case work and finding they lacked the power to provide much constructive help in many cases . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Lizzy looked over the child 's head to where the man was jacking up . |
| 28 | Moving on , I am sorry we need to , to nineteen forty five which saw Save The Children 's first involvement with pre-school playgroups here in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity . |
| 30 | Though to be really professional she should make corrections in red as she did in the children 's books . |