Example sentences of "[det] children [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some children faced with a clown , an entertainer or just being at a party atmosphere at someone 's home , do not wish to accept boundaries . |
| 2 | Some children suffer from low self-esteem , and expect to do badly . |
| 3 | Some children retired to a corner or another room to hide while standing stiffly or squatting . |
| 4 | Some children become institutionalised more quickly than others , and she still had a bit of fire left in her when I went to the orphanage for her . |
| 5 | Some children remain dry for years , then relapse after coming under stress . |
| 6 | Some children spent their entire schooldays in unrelieved misery . |
| 7 | Some children tend to insist that their models , cars , towers , etc. are the biggest , fastest or tallest and it is not always kind to suggest otherwise . |
| 8 | Some children made leaf prints — sizes and shapes were discussed . |
| 9 | Some children despise their fathers because they work , or used to work , for the Israeli occupier . |
| 10 | Some children said our hoped-for bus had gone through so Mohammed and Ali wandered off and somehow hired or hijacked a pick up truck . |
| 11 | After attending a local nursery school , some children had been able to write their own names . |
| 12 | Some children had last-minute treats of ice cream and sweets which made them very sick . |
| 13 | Some children had received a laxative , and when given , it was either given in minimal dose or given for too short a time . |
| 14 | We also need to consider the local and wider community and its various institutions — not least , the powerful influence of television , which for some children represents more hours of information intake than is provided by teachers during eleven years of compulsory education . |
| 15 | Some children spotted the feet sticking out of the bushes by the roadside . |
| 16 | Babies were given this amazing food so some children grew up as giants compared with other children their age . |
| 17 | Research begins on the materials needed for railway construction , with some children producing a broadsheet ( on computer ) reporting what has been happening in the town — which they " sell " in the next drama session . |
| 18 | Some children take on an unnatural , waxen appearance that their mothers sometimes see as a kind of death mask . |
| 19 | While some children prefer liquid medicine , finding it easier to swallow , others dislike it . |
| 20 | • In some children studied in a normal , rhythmic environment the sleep/wake rhythm shows an intermediate stage between a lack of rhythmicity and the presence of normal rhythms ( Fig. 7.1 ) . |
| 21 | Some children experienced the balance for some of the time ; others inevitably did not . |
| 22 | Some children came back repeatedly . |
| 23 | Some children get worried or feel uncomfortable because they fail to chew and then try to swallow large lumps of food which cause them to gag and vomit . |
| 24 | He says that some children ask , but then find that their headmaster refuses ! |
| 25 | Some children saw an ending where the aggressive adult was called a ‘ champion ’ , some saw the aggressor being berated , and others saw an ending where there was neither a reward nor a punishment . |
| 26 | Within this simplified conception , the role of linguistic factors in education is easy to define : some children come to school equipped with an elaborated code which enables them to be successful in class because they can use it to analyse , describe , speculate , and so on ; other children fail , because they do not possess this code . |
| 27 | The brochure stated clearly that while some children transferred back to mainstream schools , ‘ the majority remain until they are 16 years of age ’ . |
| 28 | The bulletin 's conclusion is based on a comprehensive review of all the studies , and the stated beneficial effects of some surgery for some children took into account the positive results from a study by Gates et al . |
| 29 | Some children moved out of specialist provision into playgroups ( full or part time ) and made considerable strides in social relationships , becoming part of a community and friendship network which continued into their schooldays , whether or not they went to special school at 5 years . |
| 30 | That there should be a chance for at least some children to learn Latin , not as a part of ‘ classical studies ’ , but essentially as a branch of linguistic studies , seems to me a benefit that schools should strive to preserve . |