Example sentences of "child [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helping a Third World child had been in the back of their minds for some time , but it was an ActionAid advertisement in their Sunday paper that spurred them into action . |
| 2 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 3 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 4 | ‘ We … heard that the child had been kidnaped with the full collusion of the hospital staff , ’ Bridges said blandly . |
| 5 | Each child had been strangled with red tape , the other end of which was attached to a brick , that was used to prevent the tiny body rising to the surface . |
| 6 | In the spring of 1937 , June went to Bellevue in Manhattan to have the baby , and returned quietly and resolutely to begin the charade that had been pre-determined , that the child had been born to her mother and father , Ethel and John . |
| 7 | She was particularly unlucky to be alone , for she had first married at 18 , but after losing a child had been left a childless widow at 25 . |
| 8 | The shock of finding out about her child had been responsible for her husband 's fatal apoplexy , and she would feel guilty for the rest of her life . |
| 9 | A : After appearing on TV , I was contacted by Terry Moseley who had been following my story since Kelly was killed , and Jeanette Thompson , whose child had been attacked by her own dog . |
| 10 | She remembered her younger daughter , aged eleven , was still in bed in the caravan and ran out to discover that the child had been wakened and dressed by social workers , and was already in their car . |
| 11 | It answered the question he had asked himself and told him that the bones of a very young child had been found as well as those of a young woman . |
| 12 | The child had been saved , thank God . |
| 13 | The child had been about to cry again . |
| 14 | However , the participant observation research showed that , despite ‘ common sense ’ and the media suggesting to the contrary , these primary clues were only rarely sufficient in themselves to produce a clear and unambiguous decision that a child had been abused . |
| 15 | This was so even when a child had been submitted for expert medical examination . |
| 16 | It involved hard work and long discussions , dealing with fears , anxieties and practical problems , which needed to continue long after the child had been placed . |
| 17 | His loneliness as a child had been reinforced by his years of solitary endeavour in the north-west frontier in India and Kenya , which made him the world 's leading authority on the diseases of the camel . |
| 18 | This child had been asked to look at his foot carefully ‘ as if he 's never seen it before ’ . |
| 19 | He sat up all night and into the next day until he heard a soft mewling sound like a kitten and knew that the child had been safely delivered after all that pain . |
| 20 | And it was here , after the house-warming party which began with hours of few arrivals and long silences , that she and Hugh had finished what was left of the Carafino and found themselves in the narrow bed in the basement where this dramatically argumentative child had been conceived . |
| 21 | She wished Evie had not spoken , since she found it difficult now to look at Lionel without wondering whether that day , or the day before , some poor child had been sold to him . |
| 22 | A boy was duly found whose mother denied sleeping with any man — the child had been conceived with a spirit . |
| 23 | He would empty it later , after the child had been fed . |
| 24 | Over in Gioia del Colle , a child had been born with a lucky mole , said another . |
| 25 | The child had been sent to fetch the doctor for a sick neighbour , and was on her way home again . |
| 26 | And er they said they wanted a nurse , this child had been very sick and they did n't quite know what was wrong with him . |
| 27 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 28 | When the British took the Old City after the Siege of Delhi , the child had been smuggled out of the fort and hidden in the jungle around Mehrauli . |
| 29 | The sitting-room was long , and looked as if a child had been let loose with buckets of primary colours . |
| 30 | Her mother , once rid of the armour-plated respectability of Maître Henri and his phalanx of parents , brothers and sisters , all devoted to the law , had married a happy-go-lucky literary exile from Leeds , as nearly as possible his opposite , and the half-English , half-French child had been absorbed into their slapdash household with the greatest enthusiasm and affection , and never given time to doubt or worry , surrounded as she was by joyous evidence of her own importance and value . |