Example sentences of "their child [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some mothers would avoid problems , distracting their child by talking to them and involving them in the shopping , while others would distract their child once they had started to be difficult . |
| 2 | The kindest and most loving parents may be so protective of their child that they cause that child to be anxious and over-cautious from a very early age . |
| 3 | Sometimes they feel so goaded by their child that they lapse into hitting and shouting . |
| 4 | Parents need to learn patience and show their child that they are pleased with the progress . |
| 5 | If they decide on the former , then they may deny differences between themselves and their child but they must , in the interests of the child , differentiate the child and his or her natural parents from themselves in terms of race , colour and sometimes culture . |
| 6 | And while some parents complain to the head teacher about their children becoming involved with the RUC , at least one headmistress was reported as being committed to the community relations programme , telling parents that she was responsible for their education and that they could move their child if they objected to the way this was done ( FN 10/2/87 , p. 7 ) . |
| 7 | Snacking rather than eating meals is a frequent difficulty as parents will offer food throughout the day to entice their child if they are concerned that they have n't eaten a meal . |
| 8 | Parents are within their rights to make such a decision : apart from anything else it is their child and they own the problem . |
| 9 | He reckoned that the islanders would be so devastated by the deaths of their children that they would be incapable of taking up arms against the invaders and , later , would be easily subjugated . |
| 10 | Many parents , increasingly pressed to meet school fees , say they would rather the trips were not on offer than have to explain yet again to their children that they ca n't join their friends on this once-in-a-lifetime trip . |
| 11 | There are times when parents get so angry with their children that they are in danger of losing their self-control . |
| 12 | One of the pieces of advice offered to adoptive parents is to tell their children that they were ‘ chosen ’ . |
| 13 | Members of the Pre-School playgroups Association ( PPA ) in Wales ( which became in independent association in 1987 ) are so convinced of each family 's right to choice of provision for their children that they have taken positive steps to make this possible . |
| 14 | It is possible that parents do convey to their children that they themselves do not judge and relate to people on the basis of their skin colour , but they should also tell the child that many people in the society do . |
| 15 | You see people having a relationship with their children that they ca n't have any other way . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe people will be more careful of their children after they 've read it , ’ suggested Dorothy hopefully , and then added : ‘ She 's nothing but a social climber , anyway . ’ |
| 17 | I was now able to test responses to questions such as ‘ Why is it that if you want to create an ideal family as the basis of society , Unification husbands are often expected to leave their wives , and mothers are asked to leave their children while they are sent to work on a mission , possibly thousands of miles away ? ’ |
| 18 | Roberts ( 1984 , p. 180 ) found examples of women paying their mothers and mothers-in-law to look after their children while they went out to work . |
| 19 | One of these was R.Campbell , the author of the earliest of career guides for parents , in which they could " study and improve the Genius , Temper and Disposition of their Children before they bind them Apprentices " ( 1747 ) . |
| 20 | Should this be achieved , the frequently cited fear of many parents of not being able to look after their children when they are old would cease to be a matter of concern . |
| 21 | Many old people tell their elderly friends , in confidence , that although they worry sometimes about various things in the house that need attention and are beyond their capabilities , they do n't like to keep mentioning ‘ this and that ’ to their children when they visit , as they are only too delighted to see them and feel it is a bit hard to put them to work as soon as they arrive . |
| 22 | Equally , it is also important for parents to apologise to their children when they have wronged or harmed them in some way . |
| 23 | But it is also due partly to less creditable reasons : women 's wages and the benefits they can draw for their children when they are at work are generally lower here ; and day care for children is scarcer and poorer than in many other countries . |
| 24 | The vital role of the parents is to do all they can to ensure that the loss or diminution of love and friendship , will be the worst thing that can happen to their children if they transgress the legal and moral codes that control the society in which they will be living . |
| 25 | If they can not afford to have one installed , this should be regarded as a first priority and paid for by their children if they can afford it , which is often quite possible if there is a willingness on their part to make some small economy in their own spending each month . |
| 26 | Whilst no such boycott is due to happen this year , Testing is not compulsory and parents would still be able to withdraw their children if they so wished . |
| 27 | The parents take the responsibility of educating their children until they reach the stage of tribal education . |
| 28 | The one thing at which my constituents are jolly good is feeding their children and they do not need to be subsidised to the tune of £14 million a year to do it . |
| 29 | Tenderness is that hideous , cooing voice you hear mothers using to their children as they get them to do this , go there , stay here . |
| 30 | It is well known that parents tend to treat their children as they themselves have been treated by their own parents . |