Example sentences of "son of a [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , John ( 1814–1897 ) , mechanical engineer and inventor , was born at Todmorden , Lancashire , 11 September 1814 , the son of a cotton spinner who owned the only steam-driven mill in the area . |
| 2 | John Dalton was the younger son of a Lancashire family who feathered his nest by dubious means while carrying out the office of agent for the Earl of Lancaster as constable of Pickering Castle , a position he lost in 1322 as a result of the unsuccessful rebellion of the earl who was subsequently executed . |
| 3 | ( Islip , Long Island in the U.S. , was founded by the son of a Northamptonshire emigrant who became the first mayor of New York City in 1671 . ) |
| 4 | An Honourable Death is an imaginative recreation of the life of Hector MacDonald , the son of a Highland stonemason who ran away to the Army when 17 and by the end of the last century had become the hero of several adventures in far-flung parts of the British Empire . |
| 5 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 6 | H. W. Florey ( later Lord Florey , P.R.S. ) ( 1898–1968 ) was the Australian born son of an Oxfordshire shoemaker who had emigrated to Adelaide in 1885 . |