Example sentences of "children were [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | My parents lived in constant awareness of the big house and its occupants , and we children were imbued with the problem of what the squire and his household would think of any action or behaviour . |
| 2 | ( In the conversation we quote from , the speaker was a man in his early thirties and the children were living with his estranged wife , all inferences which had been drawn by A before B went on to explain that this was the case . ) |
| 3 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 4 | Eighty five of the children were treated with prednisone during the first year ( 1 mg/kg/day for six weeks then tapering to discontinue over one to two months ) . |
| 5 | Many children were born with Minimata disease but more than one hundred adults died while thousands were severely disabled . |
| 6 | The main difference between these two books , is that although all of the children were born with these powers , only Michael and his friends were exploited . |
| 7 | We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) . |
| 8 | The children were staying with a neighbour ; in the afternoon , Nonni went shopping . |
| 9 | The children were challenged with different cereals under a strict dietary protocol with measurement of total faecal output , faecal fat content , and the fat absorption coefficient . |
| 10 | The children were presented with two coloured pictures depicting A and C. In the questions task , children were asked deductive questions of the form : The pillow burst , did n't it ? |
| 11 | On 13 December 1991 emergency protection orders were made and the children were placed with foster parents . |
| 12 | Fourth , if the children were placed with the grandparents the mother would cause problems with contact in view of the past relationships . |
| 13 | The evidence here is provided by the well-known experiments , now questioned , where children were faced with two identical tumblers of water , one poured into a wide , shallow container , the other into a tall , narrow container . |
| 14 | Several children were playing with the pastry and another child wanted to join in too . |
| 15 | The children were playing with a mass of junk boxes , all shapes and sizes . |
| 16 | All around me , children were playing with what seemed like wonderful toys . |
| 17 | She went on record to reassure parents that no children were taken with a revenge motive . |
| 18 | Thus the children were provided with information about temporal priority but not about generative transmission . |
| 19 | The children were provided with facts regarding , for example , packaging and recycling opportunities and then used the information to make ‘ hands on ’ choices from a range of consumer goods . |
| 20 | In East Africa many of us had servants — in many homes even children were left with African ‘ boys ’ . |
| 21 | Where a grandparent stopped visiting , the children were left with feelings of loss . |