Example sentences of "children [vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children may find it easy to read a straightforward narrative text but may , for example , have difficulty with broken unity , with a mixture of everyday reality and magic , or with a text requiring some understanding of historical chronology . |
| 2 | Older children may find it helps to go away until they have coped with their feelings and can discuss them . |
| 3 | Computers are not used in the primary school although some children may have them at home . |
| 4 | It was to avoid this last couple that Hugh unexpectedly asked her to dance , which they did unsuccessfully , their bodies unused to performing together , and Molly keeping to the shadows in case the children should spot them and never be able to forgive the embarrassment they had been caused . |
| 5 | Parents with problem children should stop them from taking canned drinks , coloured squash , sweets , biscuits and cake for a week . |
| 6 | Holt can and does believe that children should have them as adults do , and then leaves it up to the child to decide whether or not to exercise them . |
| 7 | The custom of ‘ beating the bounds ’ by taking children around the parish boundary and beating at significant points , in order that the children should remember them , is a reflection of this . |
| 8 | Perks said the children could have them to read , and one day Bobbie went to fetch them . |
| 9 | It was almost as if nothing that happened to children could surprise them any more . |
| 10 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 11 | He further decided that she had not established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place them in an intolerable situation , and he ordered their return to Australia pursuant to the provisions of article 12 of the Hague Convention . |
| 12 | Mr. Wall argued that the exercise of the discretion which arises as a result of the finding of ‘ acquiescence ’ made by the Court of Appeal , is limited to considering the nature and quality of the acquiescence itself and would not entitle the court to take into account ‘ welfare ’ considerations relating specifically to the children unless the court were able to find that there had been established a grave risk that the return of the children would expose them to an intolerable situation under article 13 ( b ) . |
| 13 | How children would love it — well , this one did anyway . |
| 14 | You said children would receive it if they were still in full time education , higher education |
| 15 | The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains . |
| 16 | There were coastal villages in Celebes and Borneo where the men would scowl and stride away , the women would slam their doors and window shutters in our faces , and the children would follow us down the street in howling , baiting hordes , challenging us to lose our poise . |
| 17 | He had seen the boy once or twice since , and he seemed a nice enough lad — a little backward perhaps , but his mother was ashamed of him , and refused to send him to school , perhaps fearing the other children would tease him . |
| 18 | My children would hate me . |
| 19 | All your children will cost you only a further £2.50 per month . |
| 20 | Children will love them too . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I am , ’ she said , ‘ and the children will love it too . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe your children will do it or your parents , your partner or your friends , and these choices may not actually be what you wanted . |
| 23 | The report went on to point out that these goals were the same for all children , although some children will realise them ( all or in part ) at a much slower pace than others . |
| 24 | The children will perform it at the Edinburgh Festival . |
| 25 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 26 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 27 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 28 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 29 | ‘ The Perks 's children will like them . |
| 30 | The children will appreciate them and can handle them without too much supervision . |