Sentence examples for picking up children from inspiring English sources

■ Do draw up a list of possible chores you could perform — picking up children at school, grocery shopping, mowing the lawn.

About a year ago Clara Vannucci hopped on a yellow school bus as it went around the city picking up children, mothers, sisters and brothers.

"Certainly, based on past experience, they're picking up children who, in their consideration, are of fighting age and pulling them into the ranks".

Around the corner at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, on Central Park West, some parents who were picking up children said they had similar reactions.

And, when chores cannot be offloaded to domestic staff, working women still get lumbered with the time-inflexible household tasks, such as picking up children from school, whereas men do "their" chores at the weekend.

"A loudspeaker said, 'Get out of your homes or be killed".' The dozen members of his family scrambled to flee, picking up children as the bulldozers advanced, he said.

Take your own picnic or eat at the Villano Café, where you can also pick up children's lunch packs.

The police kicked and slapped them, including the women, they picked up children and threw them into the boat".

Outside the East Village Community School, on 12th Street between Avenues B and C, parents waiting to pick up children largely agreed that they were grateful for the early warning.

But at 4 o'clock moms and stand-ins picked up children all over town, and numberless office televisions were switched to the broadcast of the American League Championship Series.

Additionally, an unknown percentage of school children come from low-mobility households and thus would be double-counted during the day, and some parents may pick up children from school during an evacuation.