Example sentences of "children who were [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 2 | We had tea there and admired 100s of beautiful primroses , and hid little eggs for Roger Simpson 's ( the rector ) children who were to arrive later on . |
| 3 | The fathers of four and the mother of one of the 54 children who were born in and had leukaemia or non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma diagnosed in the study area had been employed in the nuclear industry before their child was diagnosed ( relative risk 2.2 , 95% confidence interval 0.6 to 6.9 ) . |
| 4 | Even children who were bombed out of their homes did not seem to suffer in any way … |
| 5 | The children who were pushed in were the ones useless to their families , the backward and the troublesome , just the poor little wretches to provoke barbaric jokes and kicks and blows . |
| 6 | All the children who were living far away , they brought a sandwich and a flask with them and eating in the desk in the classroom . |
| 7 | Because of the division of labour , work soon became the perpetual repetition of a simple task , or the minding of a machine ; such work often had to be done for fourteen hours a day , six days a week , and there were no special provisions for the women and very young children who were considered especially suitable for work in the textile industries . |
| 8 | His eyes strayed to the rosy-cheeked children who were chattering happily and , to Meredith 's delight , he began to talk as if questioning his own feelings . |
| 9 | There were several plants which were significant to generations of Hebridean children who were brought up to have a knowledge of them . |