noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
maternal
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E.'s maternal grandparents applied for residence and contact orders and on 18 February 1992 all the applications were consolidated.
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Her maternal grandparents had come to New York for the occasion.
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Dorothy, the eldest, went to the maternal grandparents , where she stayed for a number of years.
■ VERB
live
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Last month a 12-year-old Devon girl became the first in Britain to win an order allowing her to live with her grandparents .
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He went to live with his grandparents .
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At a private hearing in Torquay, a judge granted a residence order which allows her to continue living with her grandparents .
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There, living with his grandparents is a boy named Beto.
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The main options may be for him to stay put or live temporarily with his grandparents .
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He then went to live with his paternal grandparents , who died of natural causes soon after his placement with them.
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But with regular visiting, or through living together, grandparents could become important and sometimes crucial figures in childhood.
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More than 3 million children in the United States now live with grandparents or other family members.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My grandparents live in Oregon.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Across Route 22, in Union, my other grandparents sat choked in tinsel.
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Every human being has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, sixteen great-great-grandparents, and so on.
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I missed my grandparents desperately and longed for Pam.
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My five-year-old godson's grandparents brought him a small, framed drawing for his christening present.
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Our grandparents, then, Roman and Fenya Lubetkin.
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The role of grandparents is to give time and unconditional love.
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This can be an aunt or grandparent or some other family member.