Example sentences of "one [prep] the children " in BNC.
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1 | And their only sinister discovery was bruises and contusions on the legs of one of the children … |
2 | Naima , the girl in the picture on the envelope , is one of the children who needs our help . |
3 | She was a ‘ stateless person ’ , he pretended , one of the children of the war . |
4 | One of the children , the little boy , did indeed follow his mother ten years later at the age of fourteen . |
5 | A concealed door leads to a charming tower room , usually bagged by one of the children as an ideal retreat . |
6 | When I have problems with my wife or one of the children , I have to make considerable effort to keep my mind on work , I assure you . ’ |
7 | Is the cover going to be illustrated by one of the children ? |
8 | A number of schools take the idea further and produce their own Christmas cards based around a design created by one of the children . |
9 | Although one of the children suffered from tuberculosis , the corporation housing department had told them that they were unlikely to be housed . |
10 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |
11 | Mr Smith — a pessimist — starts to worry in case it rains , the car breaks down , they are plagued by insects or one of the children gets lost . |
12 | Instead of asking Robert to spend more time with her at the weekends , she blamed him for being absent when something quite minor happened to one of the children . |
13 | She was actually the real mother of one of the children , but was never allowed to say so — ‘ to avoid sadness for the other children ’ . |
14 | One of the children might say , ‘ Coo , in n it good . |
15 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
16 | Randy Newman 's stark musical theme gives the tableau a brightened sense of foreboding as one of the children seems to be losing his grip on life . |
17 | But they did not know beforehand that one of the children they were about to take suffered from asthma . |
18 | One , of woods on Shapinsay , another of the Orkney islands , had been taken by one of the children on a school trip . |
19 | One of the children taken from this family was only six months old at the time of removal . |
20 | ‘ If one of the children is ill it does n't matter because I 'm at home , anyway , ’ she says . |
21 | Social workers later discovered that one of the children 's grandmothers had offered to look after them , but was told other arrangements had been made . |
22 | I could hear one of the children crying and shouted to them to get on the floor . |
23 | Now that her sons were off her hands , and Olivia , at twelve , the only one of the children whose education was not completed , Dinah felt able to dismiss the tutor and his wife , with a warmly written reference for long and faithful service . |
24 | She threw her head back both in laughter and to avoid a bump from one of the children . |
25 | Karen Woolley , 20 , was one of the children on the first Dreamflight in 1987 . |
26 | When one of the children asks his mam for some coffee she says , " We ca n't afford coffee any more , son . " |
27 | The pool is filled with water and bubbles and the kids scoot down the slide attached to the climbing frame into the bubble bath and the arms of a playworker who picks up one of the children and kisses his little red bum . |
28 | She tried to work herself , and got a couple of nights barmaiding , but he did n't like that , and he did n't like one of the children going to nursery . |
29 | However , when such play becomes hurtful or frightening to one of the children involved it may have effect equal to that of interference by an adult and should be regarded accordingly . |
30 | Rabscuttle was full of tricks and games and quite soon he was running and playing just as if he had been one of the children himself . |