Example sentences of "given birth " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us , she says . |
| 2 | OUTSIDE the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children conference hall at Keele last weekend , two young women from Antrim branch were discussing how a woman had recently given birth to a hairy baby with dog 's ears . |
| 3 | Then in November last year , soon after Wendy had given birth to Bryony , her second daughter , everything began to go wrong . |
| 4 | They have provided a wonderful opportunity to get to know dolphins in the wild , and several of the females have given birth over the years they have been frequenting Monkey Mia , thus enabling study of their maternal care and child development . |
| 5 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 6 | A woman who has given birth must immerse herself in a mikva before she can resume sexual relations with her husband . |
| 7 | The Imperial Russian tradition of grand display pieces has painlessly given birth to Grigorovich 's epics — grand , without doubt , but lumpen compared with Balanchine 's irreverent classicism or MacMillan 's exploratory dance-dramas . |
| 8 | The City winger had spent the day with his wife , who had given birth to a son . |
| 9 | I felt as if I had just given birth . |
| 10 | Genetic counselling is basically giving advice to parents , including those who have already given birth to a mentally handicapped child , of risks of having a first or second child with mental handicap . |
| 11 | Broadcast on November 23rd , 1982 , the Play for Today , ‘ John David ’ was meticulously balanced in its depiction of the true life dilemma facing the author of the play , Paula Milne , on discovering that she had given birth to a child with Down 's Syndrome . |
| 12 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 13 | After you 've given birth , levels decrease , returning to pre-natal levels . |
| 14 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 15 | The bitch that whelps her pups beyond the margins of village life has given birth to potentially feral dogs . |
| 16 | Parents who succeed in adopting a child are likely to take the whole matter of their upbringing even more seriously and conscientiously than many who have given birth to their children . |
| 17 | One tom was seen to carry his own food to the entrance of the den in which his female had given birth and place it there for her . |
| 18 | The answer seems to be that a female cat sometimes experiences a ‘ false heat ’ a few weeks after she has given birth . |
| 19 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
| 20 | Well , the lids of these racks rattled like mad as they put the hay in to feed the sheep after they had given birth . |
| 21 | Cook had been moved by Sarah 's grief when she got back from her father 's funeral , and when she heard how Maggie had given birth on the very same day she had taken pity . |
| 22 | Proposals made thus far in this respect include protection at work for pregnant women or those who have already given birth ; pro rata equation of the rights of ‘ a-typical ’ ( part-time seasonal and temporary ) workers with those of full-time workers ; working hours ; establishment of European works councils [ see pp. 45 — 6 ] ; proof of employment contract ; and minimum safety and health requirements at temporary or mobile work sites , such as construction sites and safety signs in the workplace . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ What a breed of people two hundred years of imperialism has given birth to . |
| 24 | You could place the female Guppy in a breeding trap or a separate tank and return her to the main tank after she has given birth . |
| 25 | Annie was broad-hipped and had given birth to overweight babies with no difficulty . |
| 26 | His celebrations were heightened by the news that his wife Carmen had given birth to their second son . |
| 27 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
| 28 | Sixteen out of 30 women at a branch in Andover , Hants , have given birth to 17 children in the last three years . |
| 29 | A WOMAN who was told she could never have children due to a rare disease has just given birth to a daughter . |
| 30 | She 's just given birth to daughter Rosie . |