Example sentences of "for [pron] [num] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 2 | For my three children , walking , toddling and cycling in the park has become a much more pleasant experience . |
| 3 | His mother , Jemima , was a more forceful character , hard-working and ambitious for her four children , but possibly over-protective of their interests and too demanding of their talents . |
| 4 | Courtfield was the happy family home of our founder , Cardinal Herbert Vaughan , whose mother , Eliza , spent an hour a day praying for religious vocations for her thirteen children . |
| 5 | She had been so busy with her dress house in Rome , coping with her designer , planning for the future and ensuring that everyone in the business was kept happy — each of which seemed a full-time job in itself — that she had hardly had time to spare for her three children , let alone her mother . |
| 6 | Betty , 61 , also has in mind a dream holiday and gifts for her three children and two grandchildren . |
| 7 | The Baughans recruited Johan through an advertisement in Sweden , thinking he would provide a caring male role model for their four children , aged four to 11 . |
| 8 | Now she baby-sits for their two children . |
| 9 | They need help to care for their three children , and medical support for themselves . |
| 10 | I shall have to see if I can get a sitter for you two children . |
| 11 | ‘ He wants the boat for his two children . |
| 12 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 13 | Hob 's cottage was a dour , earth-floored building divided into three rooms ; one a bedroom for Hob and his wife , the second for his four children , the third a scullery and eating-place . |
| 14 | Naturally the Lewis children reverted to their mother tongue outside school and this made things rather difficult for our two children at first . |
| 15 | I am a Roman Catholic and object in principle to divorce , but I need to sort out our house and arrangements for our two children . |
| 16 | It was also nice for our three children , because it was surrounded by a garden that was looked after by the College gardeners . |
| 17 | HAVING found a school for our three children and a house to rent , my wife and I took up our new life on . |