Example sentences of "children [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That to Sir Adrian Scrope ( died 1623 , South Cockerington , Lincolnshire ) shows the subject 's children kneeling against the tomb chest . |
| 2 | The most common reason for children returning to the danger areas was homesickness for parents and relatives , or parents worrying endlessly about them . |
| 3 | It had been her cousin 's whole-hearted approval — and her joy at the thought of her children returning to the old family home — that had given Laura the courage to leave her mother-in-law 's house in Knightsbridge . |
| 4 | Lexie 's parents are pleased that their efforts may prevent other children dying from the side effects of steroid treatment . |
| 5 | After the season the show would tour the country with a few troupes from the original cast and local children appearing in the large scenes . |
| 6 | GARY Huntingdon , the Lib-Dem 's man in Sedgefield , had just arrived for a spot of canvassing in Chilton when he spotted four attractive women and two young children walking down the street . |
| 7 | It is , therefore , a question of black children fitting into the educational system and the sociological problem might be to explain why they fail to integrate . |
| 8 | Outside he could hear children shouting on the lake . |
| 9 | We drive there on an empty street which is barely rubble , strewn with rusty cans that look like tankers , sweet wrappers , empty beer bottles and hordes of children shouting by the side of the road . |
| 10 | Learning through Writing in the Primary School Classroom Mr. Stephen Rowland , Lecturer in Primary Education , has studied aspects of children writing within the context of participatory observation in the primary classroom , where roles of teacher and researcher are integrated . |
| 11 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 12 | A newspaper obituary mentioned four children living at the time of his death . |
| 13 | Family Membership ( £10.50 ) covers two adults and any number of children living at the same address this new category needs to be publicised . |
| 14 | Their report is the most comprehensive yet on the extraordinarily high incidence of leukaemia among children living near the nuclear plant . |
| 15 | there are over 500 children living in the orphanage with ages ranging from three to twenty plus , many suffering from mental or physical illness . |
| 16 | There have been a number of recorded cases of children living in the wild and presumed to have been nurtured and reared by animals ; such children are often referred to as feral ( wild ) children . |
| 17 | Children living in the streets , peasants arriving from Sicily without an idea … |
| 18 | In 1879 she visited repealers in Plymouth to canvass support for the new bill , which proposed that the courts should remove children living in the society of depraved and disorderly persons and place them in industrial schools . |
| 19 | This is the Celtic family I have always longed for , complete with live fires , family feuds , squirming freckle-nosed children a-playing in the next room , suggestive sighing and eyeing between the sisters , the indisputable unity created by the sick mother/grandmother in hospital , the indisputable union of songs you always know whether you want to remember them or not . |
| 20 | Eight per cent of all women aged 40–4 ( married or otherwise ) had no liveborn children according to the 1987 General Household Survey . |
| 21 | I 'll never forget the sight of babies with shrapnel wounds and children scrambling in the dirt for food . |
| 22 | Sound , like light , grew longer and clearer , lingering across the surface of the water : the boy hailing the other boatmen , voices from the villages on the banks , children splashing at the river 's edge , calling to one another . |
| 23 | You come home to find your children swimming in the Koi pond . |
| 24 | Cheering and smiling children waiting outside the McGovern House community centre in Niddrie House Park lifted the mood . |
| 25 | Happy and glorious : cheering and smiling children waiting outside the McGovern House community centre in Niddrie House Park gave a lift to the mood of Prince Charles 's visit yesterday |
| 26 | No longer that terrible clattering of clogs in the street to wake her every morning and start her thinking about all those poor people and those ragged little children hurrying to the mill . |
| 27 | Each weekday morning no more than the first three eligible children presenting to the casualty unit were recruited by the study physician ( SW ) , who explained the nature and purpose of the study to parents and obtained their consent . |
| 28 | Residents in the service road not surprisingly are complaining that excessive speeds are used er by these vehicles using this rat run and this is causing a danger to children going to the local school at that time of the day . |
| 29 | Yesterday he backed their case with the story of those children lying in the street . |
| 30 | passed women and children lying by the roadside with closed eyes and ghastly , pale faces . |