Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] for the children " in BNC.
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| 1 | And ‘ everything ’ means everything : cups of coffee , shoe repairs , evening papers , drinks after work , ice-cream and comics for the children . |
| 2 | But I think the parents should take something for them to do , I mean we used to take colouring books and books for the children to look at and |
| 3 | ‘ When Miss Purdue showed us those baby clothes — the little dresses and nighties for the children of the poor fallen girls in the home on Callendar Street — they seemed so stark and plain . |
| 4 | And we 're also having a sponsored Tree Best , where we 're hoping that lots of children will come along dressed up as trees , and have raised at least £10 sponsorship each and we 're having performances on a rainforest theme , and a dancer who will be doing a dance for rainforest , and there 's some rainforest type music and things like that , and there 'll be prizes and certificates for the children who are trees , and there 'll be an exhibition that head office are launching . |
| 5 | In a field near the latter , there were traditional games and sports for the children . |
| 6 | Entertainment would come in the form of the funfair , races and sports for the children , sideshows and tents packed with crafts and fancy merchandise , pleasure flights in light aircraft taking off from the company runway , and then , much later in the evening , the grand firework display that would wind up the day 's events . |
| 7 | But unless you spent a lot on flowers and balls for the children and on Mary 's birthday present , considering that you had our 15/ and some 5/ or more yes more of your own a month ago , on which no calls but fares need have been made , to which was added about 30/ ( or more ? ) lately , and from it all not 30/ was spent on the dress , you should have a sovereign left : add to this the wages of this month to come , and there should remain , after 35/ to the spectacle man , fully a sovereign , which , considering our needs for the future & also your promises , nay , certainties , at which I laughed , should go to the bank . |
| 8 | Second , the way heads responded to PNP , and with varying degrees of success exploited its opportunities and resources for the children 's benefit , must be set firmly against this background . |
| 9 | His grandson Robert succeeded him in a bare inheritance , due to provisions made in lands and goods for the children of the third marriage . |
| 10 | There had been gifts of a tree and other decorations , with oranges for the aged women , and toys for the children . |
| 11 | There will be gifts and sweets for the children , but of much more interest to their mums and dads will be the special anniversary sale offers . |
| 12 | Beatrice was married now , with a family of her own , and because times were hard her sister helped her with surreptitious gifts of money ; and with clothes , toys , and treats for the children . |
| 13 | Outside Um Al-Farajh as she fled , she had met her brother-in-law Mohamed , who had a car , and he returned briefly to her home to get blankets and clothes for the children . |
| 14 | In Morris ' study of the households of forty redundant steelworkers , kin were providing extra help — mostly in the form of food and clothes for the children — for less than a third of the families ( Morris , 1983 ) . |
| 15 | She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little . |