Example sentences of "children [verb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a number of schools offer good healthy food , some school meals are often fatty , sugary and low in fibre — sometimes not much better than the food children eat at home . |
| 2 | It is not just discrepancies in enrolments which are significant , but the ability of children to remain at school and profit from their education . |
| 3 | In the near future , pregnant women could have their children examined at home , with the certainty of an accurate and unequivocal result . |
| 4 | Children seen at fire |
| 5 | N.B. A married man whose wife is totally incapacitated can also claim this allowance , in addition to the married couple 's allowance , if he has dependent children living at home . |
| 6 | Family Membership ( 2 adults and all children living at home — form from Office/Teacher ) 10.25 . |
| 7 | New in 1989 Family Membership ( 2 adults and all children living at home ) £10.50 |
| 8 | First , there are services to enhance the quality of life of children living at home with their families . |
| 9 | When healthy we are able to look with a cool eye at what medicine offers ; when we 're ill , we become like frightened children looking at mother and father to make us better . |
| 10 | Some parents may be encouraging their children to help at home or even take up work instead of going to school . |
| 11 | A toy knife that lets out a scream when the blade is pressed-in , could encourage children to play at murder , according to Trading Standards officers . |
| 12 | On her three children drowned at sea while returning to England |
| 13 | In particular , it suggests that many of the explanations which children produce at school will be produced in response to the teacher 's test questions , and so will serve to display rather than transmit knowledge . |
| 14 | Settler children shout at bus drivers : ‘ Run them over , they are Arabs . ’ |
| 15 | As each period of service in Burma was five years , it meant that children left at home hardly knew their parents . |
| 16 | Possibly this is why the argument as to whether it is better for a woman with young children to stay at home or go out to work goes round and round in circles . |
| 17 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 18 | Thus , when we see an increase in the numbers , it is difficult to know what it means , Social research other than the obvious fact that more children live at home while legally in care . |
| 19 | It consists of four extremely unpleasant domains : the women and children working at home and in sweatshops ; illegal building ; the exploitation of illegal immigrants ; and organized crime . |
| 20 | Tom Stonier has envisaged a scenario where children learn at home , guided by technology and grandparents and go to school for socialization . |
| 21 | It considers the nature of teachers as ethnographers ( Heath 1984 ) , and examines , for instance , the special contributions of parents , as children read at home . |