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A full-time, live-in domestic worker and child-minder was a commonplace and one did not have to be rich to afford this liberating luxury.
South Africa. 2009
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My son briefly had a holiday child-minder called 'Confidence' and my husband employed 'Favourite', 'Jesus' and 'Freddie Kruger' . . .
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The children taunt the child-minder, Rose, cruelly when they think they have discovered the object of her secret infatuation.
The Sea ,The Sea Sharon Bakar 2005
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The children taunt the child-minder, Rose cruelly when they think they have discovered the object of her secret infatuation.
Archive 2005-02-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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The children taunt the child-minder, Rose cruelly when they think they have discovered the object of her secret infatuation.
The Sea Sharon Bakar 2005
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She had her mum as an unpaid child-minder so she was able to keep on playing at being the career woman. '
A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999
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A child-minder or a minder of either an aged or disabled person, with or without garden and household duties, now takes home
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In front of the boring and forbidding partition fence there now rose an inflated Sleeping Beauty's Bouncing Castle, complete with fairytale towers and a child-minder in the shape of Henry's one remaining maintenance man.
Decider Francis, Dick 1993
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Her nanny proved unsuitable, so she spent hours driving between school, nursery and child-minder.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Consider the current problem where you may not be allowed to pick up your friends children after school without being a registered child-minder.
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