Example sentences of "her child ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother is less than willing to be involved , ignoring him in favour of the in-flight mag — an in-depth article on drainage ditch construction in the Middle East is far more interesting to her than her child 's welfare . |
| 2 | WHEN a court is determining whether a natural mother is unreasonable in withholding consent to her child 's adoption , for the purposes of section 16 of the Adoption Act 1976 , the court must judge the mother 's reasonableness objectively , but must not simply substitute its own views for that of the mother . |
| 3 | It is natural that a mother should regard her child 's health as a matter of the highest importance ; but Judith Holt believed that the Almighty should also keep a watchful eye on a bank of which her husband had become a director . |
| 4 | For the past few days he had brought security into her child 's world of distorted perspectives and half comprehended fears . |
| 5 | Her grim concentration on her child 's performance . |
| 6 | This kind of parent ( let us take the mother as our example ) attempts to direct her child 's activities in a rational manner determined by the issues involved in particular disciplinary situations . |
| 7 | When he describes a mother 's death and her child 's bereavement , heaven knows you do n't need a picture . |
| 8 | She broke off as another memory stirred … that same evening , but later , raised voices coming from her mother 's room , her child 's feet pattering along the landing , peeping through a crack in the door … |
| 9 | Eventually we were ready to go and Kāli 's load — for all her child 's body — was considerably bigger than mine . |
| 10 | She lived in the present , loving her more each day and experiencing the secret joy of sharing in her child 's upbringing . |
| 11 | She had lain in her child 's bed and become aware of the reality of her heart for the first time as its beat quickened in response to the sparrow 's wild meanderings . |
| 12 | Now and then , Liza thought of John but , far more often , of her child 's father , presumably still sitting safely in the War Office . |
| 13 | Depression will also affect the mother 's ability to respond to her child 's needs . |
| 14 | Indeed , a young mother 's intuitive feelings may be far more in keeping with her child 's needs than the academically weighted perspective of the middle aged teacher inexperienced in parenthood . |
| 15 | But she remained determined to play an equal part in defining the nature of her child 's needs . |
| 16 | Carrie looked at her child 's nurse with renewed interest . |
| 17 | A parent may interpose in or dominate his or her child 's marriage to satisfy personal need regardless of the child 's feelings . |
| 18 | Like many another before , she was trying to bargain with God for her child 's life . |
| 19 | To allow matching for proximity of mother 's residence to a nuclear establishment at the time of her child 's birth a further series of controls was selected from locally held hospital delivery registers . |
| 20 | No mother of a case had worked at a nuclear establishment before her child 's conception , and no mother had a record of being monitored for exposure to ionising radiation at any time before diagnosis ( table V ) . |
| 21 | The morning stirred in the trees and interrupted the sleep of stem and leaf and fruit and blossom as gently and efficiently as a mother lifting the cover from her child 's bed and blowing on her face in play to wake her . |
| 22 | She had sent him four stout dependable Marks and Spencer shirts for Christmas , nursing him like a mother who respects her child 's independence . |
| 23 | He could n't touch her , she really was too young ; he imagined the pale peach cheeks of her child 's cunt and the runny sweetness inside , and thought he might duck back to the hut and toss himself off . |
| 24 | The impact of the mother 's residence , as to rural or urban place , upon her child 's health and its prospects of surviving early childhood is found in most studies and from most relevant statistics to be very important . |
| 25 | It cut across her child 's world . |
| 26 | And no woman , I daresay , can settle easily to the knowledge that her child 's father has married her own mother : and drink , while ruining livers , certainly eases pain . |
| 27 | But why should she do such a thing — an unmarried girl who would desperately need help and support — especially from her child 's father ? |
| 28 | The 40-year-old woman from Wakefield , West Yorkshire — who can not be named to protect her child 's identity — was charged with murdering John William Lockwood ( 65 ) of Halton Road , Wakefield . |
| 29 | There is little point in trying to transmit a professional 's " feel " for something to a parent who is anxious about his or her child 's education but does not know very much about the intricacies of teaching and learning . |
| 30 | I am Mrs who 's sort of the secretary and books , does the booking for the hall , he could n't get that , anyway it occurred to me afterwards it must of been the grandmother of that girl that bought the erm , cos he kept on talking a Michelle and that 's the girl that bought our suite and I reckon it 's her child 's birthday party , she said erm you know my , you know my son-in-law , I said do I ? |