Example sentences of "children and [noun pl] [Wh pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have children and grandchildren who face unemployment , high mortgages , worries with the health service , and violence on the street , and we compare it with our own youth which was spent in fighting a war , with rationing , air raids and separations . |
| 2 | Villagers are especially concerned for the safety of children and youngsters who play on a small triangle of grass underneath the bypass . |
| 3 | We heard of daily torture , public hangings , guards who walked about with whips , gas chambers , castrated children and prisoners who lay dead for hours in the communal beds . |
| 4 | There are children and families who take up a great deal of teacher time and attention . |
| 5 | As you well know our mission statement , Save The Children 's vision , commits us to using our experience gained here and overseas to achieve lasting benefits for children on a far wider scale than would be the case if we just confined our work to those children and families who happen to be involved in the projects we run . |
| 6 | It is a similar attitude to that of children and adolescents who have their secret understandings and life-styles which are often , quite intentionally , separate from those of parents , teachers and others of the ‘ older ’ generation . |
| 7 | Detailed advice about the organization of local services is contained in the report , together with the recognition of the needs of children and adolescents who harm themselves . |
| 8 | Stuck in the middle of the Oxfordshire countryside with hundreds of noisy incomprehensible children and colleagues who make me feel about as comfortable as a walk in the rain . |
| 9 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 10 | There is a principle here for children and teenagers who live in non-Christian homes . |
| 11 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 12 | ‘ I redrew it to what fitted our site and what I needed in terms of accommodation for the children and grannies who appear from time to time — mindful of the fact that Edwina and Michael were two and four , but were n't going to stay that size for long . ’ |