Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] a child " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are other images , too : he mentions the " ailanthus " , one of which stood in the yard of the Mary Institute where he had once played , and the " briar rose " by his father 's house in Gloucester ; in addition , he employs words like " rote " or " groaner " which he had heard as a child in New England . |
| 2 | Or like Jenny 's mother , whose grey head trembled constantly , so that she reminded Winnie of a nodding Chinese doll she had owned as a child . |
| 3 | Mozart worked with the commonplace musical fabric of his time , the prescribed structures , instrumental combinations , harmonic progressions and melodic formulae that he had absorbed as a child , and from which a Salieri and hundreds like him fashioned polite , two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear . |
| 4 | Police discovered later that Lorna and Vernage had met at a children 's home years earlier . |
| 5 | The story of the abuse he had suffered as a child emerged in interviews with social workers . |
| 6 | The latest medical theories suggest that Mozart 's last illness had its roots in the various serious infections he had suffered as a child : on the early trip to Paris and London he had contracted rheumatic fever , tonsillitis. and typhoid fever ; in 1167 he had caught smallpox ; and in Italy he seems to have had bronchitis and yellow jaundice . |
| 7 | Despite the material and social disadvantages that Harry had suffered as a child , he still seemed to think of those early years as happy ones . |
| 8 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 9 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 10 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 11 | Angela did n't ride , though she had done as a child . |
| 12 | He had sobbed like a child . |
| 13 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 14 | The poem takes its title from a ledge of rock off Cape Ann which acted as a seamark when Eliot , as a boy , used to sail out of Gloucester Harbour , and its first lines evoke the presence of the Mississippi which he had felt as a child in St Louis . |
| 15 | When the dragon had flighted across the market place of Antioch , and Margaret had found herself swept up between the huge teeth , she had laughed like a child at the brief glance she had had of the panic around her ; she had laughed from the pure unexpectedness of her escape and at the terrified way the mighty Olybrius had nearly swallowed his moustaches . |
| 16 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 17 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 18 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 19 | The little beach where Mariana had played as a child was to his left . |
| 20 | He drove past the parks and gardens where he had played as a child ; past the houses of some of his past mistresses ; past the apartment where Clara Delluc lived . |
| 21 | Their mother , pale as the highland moon that she had known as a child , slept like a ghost embroidered on smoke . |
| 22 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 23 | As an adult in Panama I have stepped aside and contemplated the New World equivalent of the driver ants that I had feared as a child in Africa , flowing by me like a crackling river , and I can testify to the strangeness and wonder . |
| 24 | And he would n't have dismissed a Melissa with a kiss as light as thistledown — the sort of kiss he might had bestowed on a child . |
| 25 | I felt the strangeness then , and the wonder , not unmixed with revivals of half-forgotten fears , but transfigured and enhanced by a mature understanding , which I had lacked as a child in Africa , of what the whole performance was for . |
| 26 | She had worked as a children 's nurse in Wirral hospitals for 20 years before taking a post with the local social services department , assisting young families in need . |
| 27 | She could play the heroine 's scenes from a score of films or recite long passages from the Holy Bible that she had learned as a child . |
| 28 | The verses of Practical Cats revert to the " thumping " rhythms which he had assimilated as a child , and perhaps they owe something of their inspiration , also , to the memory of Eliot 's father who drew cats for recreation . |
| 29 | Her emotionally deprived life is enhanced briefly when she is read to in a churchyard on Sunday afternoons by the invalid cousin she had loved as a child . |
| 30 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |