Example sentences of "children [to-vb] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for , our children when they grow up cos I had three children nearly every one that had come into the town had little ones so you see we were trying to build a town for our children to benefit which I do n't know whether you think that it 's a town worth living in but I think that we have done very well and it 's a town that is caring for such as the elderly they really do care ! |
| 2 | It is crucial that we provide as many opportunities as possible for children to discuss what they are doing in the language with which they feel most comfortable . |
| 3 | They encourage the children to imagine what it 's like to be a character in the play — one of two twins who are separated in a shipwreck and thrown up on a beach on a strange island . |
| 4 | There may be a case for sometimes deliberately providing ‘ too many ’ or ‘ too few ’ of , for example , straws for bottles , to enable children to verbalise what they , in some cases , intuitively see . |
| 5 | There have always been good maths teachers who 've made maths interesting and relevant to the children , but I think perhaps the emphasis has shifted from rote learning to helping children to understand what they 're doing . |
| 6 | Rather than asking children to describe what they did , he chose to focus on the time pupils took to record answers , using a keyboard . |
| 7 | There was a , a very touching erm and I think rather important book erm published in about nineteen sixty-nine , called The School I 'd Like , which was edited by Edward Blisham , in which he got children to describe what they thought the ideal school was like . |
| 8 | Head teacher Sheila Davies commented : ‘ As a church school we teach the children to appreciate what they have , and point out there are a lot of people in the world who are worse off . |
| 9 | Another target that one designer is pursuing is ‘ screen animation in geometry as a means of getting children to say what they see ’ . |