Example sentences of "parents [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | This legitimation function is also its limitation in as much as it is tied to the prevailing ideology of the family which will inhibit the articulation of problems as structural , societal deficits : children and young people will become problems because their parents failed them . |
| 2 | Hook tells Peter 's children that their parents hate them : ‘ Before you were born , they were happier : they were free ! ’ |
| 3 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 4 | Tizard , for example , mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately ; Kellmer Pringle has advocated payment for mothers who stay at home to care ; and a further interviewee who may be identified with the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view had this to say in answer to the argument that the 1975 Act put already powerless parents in an even more powerless position : |
| 5 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 6 | This may be connected to the fact that the youngsters came bottom as far as hugs were concerned , as 57pc said their parents hugged them compared with a national average of 70pc . |
| 7 | Part of the problem is that once children go to ‘ big ’ school , parents expect them to do ‘ proper ’ school work , says Neville Bennett , Professor of Primary Education at Exeter University . |
| 8 | Liz had felt herself to be close to Naomi , as she nursed Naomi 's children , slept with Naomi 's husband , took tea or sherry with Naomi 's parents , helped to form the childish letters which her stepchildren wrote to Naomi 's parents thanking them for presents , for outings . |
| 9 | Parents used them to select schools . |
| 10 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 11 | Evidently a class had just finished and the place was boiling with ponies , small children , pink-faced with exertion in oversized helmets covered with bright silks , parents urging them to hurry up and get in cars , and teenage girls bulging out of light jodhpurs organizing the whole . |
| 12 | I doubt whether the working party will get any further than recommending the status quo , because I 'm absolutely sure in my own mind , that it is a duty that this council has to support village schools , where the parents support them , and where they 're educationally beneficial , to support them in the village communities , because they are , they have other importance than just education . |
| 13 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 14 | Social Services have taken the unprecedented step of writing to the young victims ' parents warning them of Alan Stout 's impending release.Adrian Britton reports . |
| 15 | They really do stand a better chance being left there to their own devices for the parents to feed them the right diet than being picked up and brought here . |
| 16 | The workmen turned away after parents told them of their fears for the safety of local children . |
| 17 | The parents studied them intently . |
| 18 | Well joking apart that 's the sort of thing that could happen to kids and er you you know you wonder why parents let them out . |
| 19 | Decisions should also be reached as to whether appointment lists should be displayed in the school and parents invited to come in to choose a discussion time or whether staff will decide and write to parents informing them of an allocated time . |
| 20 | Boys do not have the same pressures as we do , they are not taught that image is so important ; the media , society , and especially parents give them this impression . |
| 21 | Once identified , schools worked hard with parents to win them other to trusting the schools and encouraging attendance . |
| 22 | Children are deeply affected by their family life and to help parents provide them with a satisfactory experience and model is likely to be an investment in the future when they will become parents in their turn . |
| 23 | All of them volunteers with nothing but a rudimentary knowledge of psychology and , possibly , their own experience as parents to help them , they grappled with problems that challenged the skills of the best doctors and psychiatrists . |
| 24 | It was an emotional moment as parents welcomed them home and swapped addresses with Dreamflight helpers . |
| 25 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 26 | Young children believe what their parents tell them , verbally or otherwise : there are no other sources of information . |
| 27 | The aim is for the parents to fill them in as accurately as possible , so they should be simple to fill in and placed in an easily accessible place in the home . |
| 28 | It was important that she ring her parents to let them know not to expect her that day . |
| 29 | Going back to those first commands and prohibitions on which ( among other things ) conscience is founded , it is apparent that some babies heed them more readily and consistently than others , and that some parents convey them more effectively than others . |
| 30 | But babysitters who 've completed the course can show a certificate of competence to the child 's parents to reassure them . |