Example sentences of "children just " in BNC.

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1 It was Osman 's father Mohamed who had returned in his car for the clothes for Mrs Zamzam 's children just before Um Al-Farajh was finally abandoned by the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 .
2 ‘ It 's a very patriarchal family , ’ Zoë says , ‘ the family define itself as the men , with the women and children just surrounding them — so when one man gets himself another woman , it does n't change things . ’
3 In accountancy , for example , by the time you 've done your training and spent some years establishing yourself , you then have your children just at the time when you 're supposed to be going all out for partnership .
4 It was clear that the supporters of the scheme were concerned with the status of mothers and children just as the early members of the Family Endowment Society had been .
5 Diphtheria , scarlet fever , measles , and whooping cough attacked older children just when they seemed clear of the terrible hazards of infancy .
6 Children just beginning on their first language have to solve the problem of how forms map on to meanings .
7 I mean children just get more and more excited
8 They 're not doing this or that but in lots of cases , and I 've known of lots of cases where children just do n't want to know !
9 I think the end result was that erm I say this man was dead so Married man with four children just coming home from work , minding his own business .
10 If the opportunity presented itself he intended to marry his other children just as advantageously .
11 If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down .
12 The local children just ran wild all over the place , Victorine said : I remember them riding the cows and holding cow races , oh those children had a lovely war .
13 As we discussed in Chapter 4 , most 5-year-old children just beginning to learn to read already have a substantial auditory-recognition vocabulary .
14 Children just do dangerous things — they run in front of swings , go down the slide backwards …
15 As the rain gradually died away , birds began to fight and squabble like fractious children just allowed out after being cooped up indoors ; but then they did n't have leaky roofs ; neither did they have to climb up there as soon as it was light to inspect the damage ; or have a meeting with Leo , the thought of which made her feel weak inside .
16 They were , he said , ‘ cultural orphans ’ , and ‘ the children just did not know at all how to keep a house clean .
17 If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down .
18 The majority , 77 per cent , agree or strongly agree with the statement that : ‘ A single parent can bring up children just as well as two parents . ’
19 We find that the children just want to have fun , they have neglected the idea of working or building shelters and there is basic chaos on the island .
20 I do n't know if that 's , what 's that to stop encouraging the children just to buy it .
21 My children just love that over there
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