Example sentences of "when they [be] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we 've heard from people in this programme tonight , most of them start when they 're children or young adolescents |
| 2 | So a lot of , a lot of them tell like fairy tales , a lot of people tell fairy tales for young , at young children , it 's all aimed at young children when they 're not old enough to understand what 's truth and what is n't they 're not old , they 're not in their own understanding yet when they 're children so they sort of , not in their conscious sense anyway |
| 3 | Certainly the Chinese people have to discover or learn acceptable meanings for the symbols of their language when they are children . |
| 4 | When they were children , she said , the villagers had been afraid of the forest folk . |
| 5 | PEOPLE who survived treatment for cancer when they were children in the 1960s have been able to become parents of healthy children , research shows . |
| 6 | The hurts in adults were created long ago when they were children . |
| 7 | Two of the local clowns , Richard Clarke ( Mary 's son ) and Ian Cross , who had lived in Bellerby all their lives , said this would have been unthinkable at one time — when they were children everybody knew everybody else , and what went on . |
| 8 | The simple guidelines on sexual morality which , when they were children , the Church of England and society as a whole had appeared to accept , were being challenged . |
| 9 | He had kept lurchers when they were children , and used to take Francis lamping for rabbits . |
| 10 | The little girl to whom Wolfgang had impudently proposed marriage when they were children was now Queen of France ; and tales of her extravagant lifestyle at the glittering court of Versailles were stirring up murmurs of discontent among ordinary Frenchmen , setting alight a fuse which 11 years later was to blow not only France but much of Europe apart . |
| 11 | The weekly ritual slaughter was too gory a ceremony for her to watch , though every time it took place she was reminded of how it always fascinated her daughters when they were children . |
| 12 | Our mothers are cousins , and there was something that happened way back when they were children — my mother saved David 's mother 's life , or something . |
| 13 | They used to speak Gaelic to one another when they were children . |
| 14 | Yes , I think we have to take any situation like this , not just the major ones like war , but any situation that we come across and use it as a real opportunity for learning , and maybe for adults to be able to do the things that they did n't do when they were children , which is why now we often respond as child in these situations . |