Example sentences of "children [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So smile , be charming , and resist the temptation to elbow small children off the path to their doom for the crime of carrying a ghetto-blaster up the hill . |
| 2 | After the church ceremony , a horse and carriage waited for the newlyweds and took them to their reception , where an entertainer was waiting in the wings to take the children off the adults ' hands . |
| 3 | A BRITISH Rail guard booted two mums and their children off a train in a drunken temper , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | In bad weather it kept the children off the beds , which otherwise they were inclined to use as substitute trampolines . |
| 5 | To quote an Amnesty International poster : ‘ Brazil has solved the problem of keeping children off the streets . |
| 6 | She did not add , He would jump at the chance of someone filling that post , so that he would n't be asked to take the children off Rose 's hands until she is once more fixed up with someone who could manage her unruly crowd , as well as herself and the house . |
| 7 | ’ His ‘ instant portrait ’ — on the accuracy of which he prided himself enormously — was that the client was most likely a starter , could very well be a married man , children off his hands , time on his hands , going back to his own public school days ( the velvet collar on the overcoat was a giveaway ) and the boys will be boys bit or just realized very late that what he really fancied was a bit of the other and had to wallet to get it . |
| 8 | The first loan was often sought to escape a pauper funeral , to keep the children off the school meals list , to pay for boots , or to tide the family over the illness of the breadwinner . |
| 9 | She has been working out in Sierra Leone for some years and has been taking children off the streets and teaching them the basics of domestic skills and education . ’ |
| 10 | At the same time , they were keen to bring up their children as Roman catholics . |
| 11 | CHILDREN IN SEX CASES Save in exceptional circumstances where it is in the public interest to do so , newspapers should not , even where the law permits it , identify children as victims , witnesses or defendants involved in cases concerning sexual offences . |
| 12 | If taught to small children as a stepping-stone to the ABC , it could wait a lifetime until everyone had grown up knowing both systems , then the better would simply oust the worst — as the arabic numerals have eventually ousted the roman ones . |
| 13 | A concealed door leads to a charming tower room , usually bagged by one of the children as an ideal retreat . |
| 14 | I think the Conservatives are rotten about the family — they seem as keen to separate mothers from their children as the most demented feminist ( it 's called ‘ getting women into the market ’ ) . |
| 15 | The unpleasant notion of children as the ‘ property ’ of their parents — or as ‘ objects ’ over whom adults assert or contest each other 's rights is abandoned in favour of a term which emphasizes the obligations they have towards their children . |
| 16 | Equally familiar to the British observer will be the discontinuity and instability experienced by the children as a result of welfare interventions ( see Fisher et al . , |
| 17 | One woman enclosed a photo of her two small children as a symbol of her fears . |
| 18 | In some schools these places can be smelly , scruffy and in cold damp weather used by some children as an extension of the playground . |
| 19 | Wordsworth refers to ‘ women and children as manufacturers . ’ |
| 20 | Despite the difficulties , people still regard access to education for their children as a ‘ passport out of poverty ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ However , in due course a few , a very few indeed , intelligent teachers came to take a cool look at what was happening and they realised that for the vast majority of children the majority of our educational processes add about as much to the mental stature of our children as a diet of sawdust would add to their physical stature … . , |
| 22 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 23 | The impulse to partner parents can be as strong for children as the temptation for parents to confide in their children as if they were partners . |
| 24 | Solomon Schonfeld was more inclined to regard the arrival of these children as a God-given opportunity to correct the errors of their families . |
| 25 | Since this law was introduced the number of deaths and serious injuries to children as a result of car accidents has been significantly reduced . |
| 26 | Although her parents had always treated her normally , Fiona had still been a victim of society 's tendency to view Down 's children as low achievers . |
| 27 | I think she feels a certain resentment that he used his wife 's illness , her death , and now uses the children as an excuse for reneging on his undertaking to leave when she wanted the cottage back . ’ |
| 28 | It is a pretence to set up a model of mother , father and children as the only acceptable form . ’ |
| 29 | Denis says they 're using the children as a human shield . |
| 30 | The father regarded his children as his enemies . |