Example sentences of "child [vb base] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many severely handicapped children do die at an early age through natural causes , but at least the parents can feel that they did everything they could for the child when it was alive . |
| 2 | Perhaps when their children have to go to a run-down , underfunded , understaffed State school they will understand why most of the country is up in arms about the state of the education system . |
| 3 | This should cause us to be cautious when we make assumptions about what children have gained from a story . |
| 4 | I think erm that sometimes the fact that children have moved to a school where they have a timetable which has got subjects written down on a piece of paper , and the fact that they bring homework back with them and parents can see work in exercise books , sometimes that acts as a kind of reassurance to parents that something is going on which they recognise as education . |
| 5 | A MUM and her three children have moved into a cardboard box to demand ‘ decent accommodation ’ from the Housing Executive . |
| 6 | Parents give to their children , and continue to give more than their children ever give them in most cases , although one situation in which this flow often is reversed is where children have migrated to a more affluent country , and expect to send money back to their parents ( see for example , Thorogood , 1987 ) . |
| 7 | Similarly in the music department at ‘ J.F. Kennedy ’ , after children have worked on a project , such as the exploration of a musical device like the development and use of a repeated accompaniment pattern or ostinato ( through listening and then experimenting with using the device in their own compositions ) the performance of their end result would be assessed to determine whether they had grasped and utilized the device effectively . |