Example sentences of "children we " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were children we were told that we would be sent there if we were naughty . |
| 2 | As children we called the bright blue , slightly violet-tinged flowers which patterned the grassy lane banks by the inventive name of dove 's foot , after the shape of the deeply-lobed and cut leaves . |
| 3 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 4 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 5 | Though in our recent study of Adoption Allowances which involved many older children we did not set out to test the issues under discussion , nevertheless some of the 52 children we interviewed maintained a link with a member of the original family whilst in the case of a few others a ‘ clean break ’ approach was followed by agencies . |
| 6 | The question must arise again now , if only because people have suggested that in order to improve the education of our children we need to move back to some system of selection ( see for example Whose Schools ? |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ said Denis at last , ‘ we 're not the children we were . ’ |
| 8 | Well , we 're not the children we were , ye see . |
| 9 | Yet in dealing with children we forget this . |
| 10 | As children we have a natural ability to experience life from moment to moment , as is also true with animals . |
| 11 | The Newson studies do , however , suggest ways of looking at the backgrounds of those children we are setting out to serve . |
| 12 | When cooking with the children we want to finish with something eatable , so we are likely to add the liquid carefully ourselves , but we could let children experiment with the play-dough and if they make the first lot too soggy , more flour and salt can be added without much trouble until they make a ‘ workable ’ dough , and there can be plenty of conversation about too much , too little , a little more , a lot more and enough . |
| 13 | While playing with the children we can introduce the terms backwards , forwards , in front of , behind , by the side of and next to . |
| 14 | From small children we 're taught so . ’ |
| 15 | As children we all feel powerless , and these feelings can easily be reproduced when we feel submissive . |
| 16 | As children we tend to work on this and practise asking for what we want at every available opportunity . |
| 17 | As small children we may not always get the understanding we need from our parents . |
| 18 | When we are children we first experience this use of power by our parents . |
| 19 | commented Jo , ‘ The overall standard of the children we are seeing is gradually improving although we still need to encourage many more children to play tennis ’ . |
| 20 | As children we rendered a bird as a small on a larger one . |
| 21 | Susan Isaacs , perhaps the most significant English educationalist of this century , stressed the same point in her book The Children we Teach . |
| 22 | We might , as individuals , have specific interests in poetry and literature , mathematics or art , history or science , and we might well seek to share our enthusiasm with the children we teach . |
| 23 | We have now carried out successfully a total of 27 national surveys without undue disruption to schools , with the general support of the LEAs and teachers concerned … and with the enthusiastic cooperation of the children we have tested … |
| 24 | All the children we spoke to stressed that the social worker from the placement agency was the family 's social worker and not their social worker , and this was a position of which they very much approved . |
| 25 | All the children we spoke to about reviews found them either an unnecessary irrelevance or else an extremely threatening or distressing event . |
| 26 | As children we accepted our circumstances as normal . ’ |
| 27 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 28 | I enjoy shocking people by describing how goods were introduced into households under the guise of gifts for children : the fridge in the house of the children we played with over the road was given to the youngest as a birthday present — the last thing an eight-year old wants . |
| 29 | ( What poisonous children we seem in retrospect . ) |
| 30 | We sometimes write down the stories and one summer with other children we put on a play we had adapted from a Russian folktale in Folktales of Many Lands . |