Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] children " in BNC.
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| 1 | These schools were for children but adult education and literacy classes were also provided . |
| 2 | From a trade catalogue issued by Turner of Farringdon Street , London , in 1838 we get an overview of the types of coffin used at that time : thirty-three are described , of which fourteen styles were for children 's coffins only . |
| 3 | Some of Modigliani 's most beautiful paintings in the south of France were of children and young people . |
| 4 | He was itching to get further inside and check on Ari , yet appreciated Quincx 's robots were like children to the man . |
| 5 | They were like children to him . |
| 6 | The other two had evidently been in hospital longer than I had , and they were like children let out of school , peering through the unblacked-out part of the window at the bright lights in the shops and rejoicing that they would be home for Christmas . |
| 7 | When Mahmoud left we were like children again . |
| 8 | When friendships finally became possible for him they were with children of the lower orders . |
| 9 | The fact that at least half of the children who waited in long-term care were in children 's homes became the more powerful message . |
| 10 | Since other marriages were without children she presumed that other couples , in their millions , shared their own difficulty . |
| 11 | After 2200 and before 0100 , 217 ( 26.8% ) of the visits were to children aged under 5 years whereas only 110 ( 14.2% ) of the visits later in the night were to this age group ( χ 2 =37.47 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |
| 12 | While they endured the loneliness of the enforced separation , the humiliation of intimate medical examinations , and harrowing interview sessions , their parents were at Children 's Hearings in Kirkwall , starting the bitter fight for their return . |
| 13 | It was for children , rabbits having a picnic in a wood with toadstools , birds . |
| 14 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 15 | This was puzzling because in our minds ‘ collaborative learning ’ was about children working together on the same tasks , with the shared experience providing the context and reason for interaction . |
| 16 | In spite of the best efforts of the health service , we had been unable to persuade the public that by far the bigger danger was of children not being inoculated . |
| 17 | Everywhere the conversation was of children 's books , because of Shona Innes ' popular quiz , of course 550 copies were sold . |
| 18 | It was for this reason that I had Zowie because I could see how he was with children . |
| 19 | I wonder how good he was with children ? |
| 20 | However , he was told that the best use of his talents was with children 's work . |
| 21 | At that time the only market for illustrators was in children 's books , the Radio times and realistic stuff for women 's magazines and paperbacks . |