Example sentences of "children and [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Learning to play with other children and to form close friendships with some of them is a vital part of growing up .
2 Most of us need to spend much more time talking with children and listening to them .
3 I looked at my lovely children and realised the suffering I had put them through .
4 Parents working at all levels in businesses can begin to establish empathy with the school work of their children and contribute to it in the workplace , or the school or at home .
5 Together these two strategies will establish some of the basic parameters of the relationship between parental health and the care and development of young children and contribute to the development and testing of appropriate outcome measures .
6 The Pig police take innocent children and let the real criminals , sitting in Westminster , sitting in board rooms , go free .
7 For others it might be that they wish to maintain the relationship between the father and the children and fear that ill-feeling will be created by a vigorous pursuit of maintenance .
8 The experiments involve the use of a computer based system to display text to children and measure their reading time for different types of material .
9 The main objectives were now to abolish poverty among children and halt the decline in the birth rate .
10 Then get two children and show them the way to cut the rings down the middle .
11 In his annual report , he states that the cost of immunising these children and providing the medicines necessary to treat the dehydration and pneumonia would be about $2.5 billion .
12 Putting two and two together , junior quite rightly expects there to be polecat with young hanging around post number seven , waiting to be petted by the children and providing the adults with a photo opportunity .
13 First , the hon. Gentleman should not underestimate the immense force of major legislation presented by the Lord Chancellor in the past three or four years — not least the Children Act 1989 , which has entirely restructured the law on children and paved the way for the family court , and the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , one of the most important pieces of legislation in this field to appear for decades .
14 There is art in all of us , in one form or another , but it must be discovered and developed , and this is one of our purposes as teachers to discover the art in children and develop it .
15 Recommendation 17 : " Governments are urged to take immediate steps to identify the underlying causes of morbidity and mortality among infants and young children and develop special programmes to attack these conditions .
16 ‘ But I understood she had left you and her children and had gone abroad . ’
17 But Len was n't Mick : there was no deep depth in Len ; he was an honest , open fellow who was a father of two children and had a good wife , by the sound of her .
18 Besides , Christmas was coming and Christmas must be especially hard for her , because she loved children and had none and all day and every day she sold toys for other people 's beloved children .
19 Robinson ran a school for retarded Christian children and had clashed with local villagers , who accused him of setting up the first Israeli settlement in Lebanon .
20 He was 35 , married with 2 children and had been in the brigade for 11 years .
21 As soon as she could , she resumed the normal pattern of her life , getting up at 7.30 a.m. to prepare breakfast for the older children and get them ready for school .
22 ‘ Take the children and get right away . ’
23 I will produce many children and get fat and wear stretch maternity jeans ( even after I have given birth ) and an apron with a daisy on it .
24 and bath , and bath the children and got their tea ready , what , pretty efficient really
25 The laser equipment can be used on both adults and children and according to consultant dermatologist Dr Grace Allen , is a major advance on treatment previously available in the province .
26 They are responsible for every aspect of the children 's care , i.e. they wake them up in the morning , take lying , sitting , standing , and walking groups , teach the National Curriculum lessons , toilet and bath the children and put them to bed .
27 Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls .
28 He says he grabed the children and put them in the car .
29 He 's only recently started to take notice of Hannah like take her swimming and that on and since he found out that she 's got a heart murmur and that 's what it 's like , cos he for tea on the way back , and then he bathed the children and put them to bed , and last night no , what he put them all in the bath again , put that down again
30 With the new proposals it seems the needs of the children will be put first because you wo n't be granted a divorce until a period of a year has elapsed and during that period you 'll have to work out access and maintenance for the children and put their needs first and that seems very good .
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