Example sentences of "that [pron] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask yourself : what precisely is it that my child is doing wrong ? |
| 2 | Does Compact mean that my child will have to leave school for work at sixteen ? |
| 3 | How will I know that my child has a fair chance at Compact opportunities ? |
| 4 | I think I 've always felt deep within me that my child was alive . |
| 5 | What makes her think that my child will want posters of David Bowie and John Travolta , anyway ? |
| 6 | I vowed that my children would be better prepared when they left home . |
| 7 | Although my certificate in Sociology had not yet come , I knew that my next and most important study must be Theology , only so I could understand the situation that my children would face in the future , and other people 's children would have to meet as well . |
| 8 | In many ways I 've had a fuller and more satisfying life since then , and I know that my children still need me in lots of ways . |
| 9 | I shall treat my own family in the same way , disregarding the fiction that my children are in some mystical way an extension of myself . |
| 10 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 11 | I have worked long and hard to ensure that my children want for nothing . " |
| 12 | Thus , perhaps , I believe that my children are at present playing in the garden at home , and I have good reasons for this belief . |
| 13 | Do I know that my children are playing in the garden at home ? |
| 14 | This new notion of defeasibility seems to allow ( probably ) that I now know that my children are playing in the garden , because the second added truth negates the defeating powers of the first . |
| 15 | I had the sense to know that my children could n't be happy unless they had a happy mother , and so I consulted my doctor . |
| 16 | I puzzled over this one for some time and came to the conclusion that my children 's concept of life is largely derived from fairy stories in which anybody with power is always male . |
| 17 | I 'm shocked that my children heard it . ’ |
| 18 | Well I 'm glad of that my children cos all |
| 19 | Who could doubt that it was a mother 's failure to have been sufficiently vigilant against the fly menace that her child succumbed to some grievous , infectious illness ? |
| 20 | Ranald fetched his harp , and he sang a story of a great selkie , one of the seal people , who loved a land maiden but warned her that if she took their son away from him , the baby would kill him when he grew up ; but in fear that her child would become a wild selkie himself she stole the baby and reared him inland as a normal man . |
| 21 | Earlier there had been reports that actress Julie Walters was having to confront the fact that her child had leukaemia . |
| 22 | Or perhaps she would just tell us that her child is not yet ready ; she would be right . |
| 23 | The Collector felt no confidence at all that her child had not been made in vain . |
| 24 | Did you ever meet a mother who 's complained that her child phoned her too often ? |
| 25 | And no woman , I daresay , can settle easily to the knowledge that her child 's father has married her own mother : and drink , while ruining livers , certainly eases pain . |
| 26 | She had no doubt that her children were too important to be brought up by anyone else and , as others went on to become household names , she became a full-time mother , writing occasional children 's books as well as a storybook-guide to the handling of epilepsy based on experiences with her own son . |
| 27 | Francesca interjects with the heartening news that her children 's father ‘ is fanatical about food preparation — spends hours on it . |
| 28 | Now that her children are old enough to do without a nanny , Sheila refuses all help in the house , preferring to do all her shopping herself . |
| 29 | It was too late to save the mother , but by flaunting my privileges under her nose , taunting her with the contrast between my power and her weakness , my wealth and her poverty , I was helping to ensure that her children 's chances in life would never be blighted by the well-wishing do-goodism which had crippled me . |
| 30 | There are even stories — apocryphal , perhaps — that her children 's toys are washed after visits from their little friends for fear of contamination by the common horde . |