Example sentences of "their four [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Aeneas Coffey married Sussana Logie in 1808 and their four sons all entered the business , three of them after studying at Trinity College , Dublin .
2 He was survived by his wife Isabel , daughter of Julian Nethermill , a Coventry draper , and their four sons and one daughter .
3 Their four sons , Abraham , John , Thomas and George , were prosperous nailer-farmers and so were those of their children who were middlemen in the trade .
4 In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view .
5 With two of their four engines knocked out and Charlie so critically wounded , Dan made an emergency landing at Horsham St. Faith .
6 They insisted their four colleges have a spirit which was ‘ practical rather than academical ’ although it was agreed that the 254 places provided in the colleges were not enough by the end of the century .
7 c ) Nine panel designs/Irregular saltire designs There is a distinction to be drawn here between those mosaics which exhibit nine-panels by including quarter roundels in each of their four corners , and those which extend decoration found on the " arms of a saltire " to the corners , where it.supports individual motifs .
8 There were the two eldest girls , Dorothy and Joyce , their four boys , Beverley , Walter , Robert and Bramwell , and another girl Elizabeth , who was always known as Betty .
9 Lancashire 's batting performance was a bitter disappointment after their four seamers reduced Essex to 222 all out .
10 At the other end of the First Division the whipping boys , Bedford , who have conceded 190 points in their four games , include the 17 ½ stone No.8 Steve Harris at inside centre against Orrell .
11 ‘ Belgium have won all their four games so far and we need to come away with a share of the spoils . ’
12 That 's right , Bolton won five nil but what we did get clarified from the Football League today was if two English teams finish their four games on the same number of points , is it goal difference or is it the number of goals scored that is the crucial factor ?
13 During their four days in Edinburgh , in addition to their time at Torness , they will be briefed about Scotland by staff from the US Consulate-General , visit the Castle and learn about Scottish dancing .
14 In contrast to Montgomerie , Gilford , who won in Agadir with a nine-under-par 279 to retain the title , and runner-up Spence , who finished on 280 with Stephen Ames of Trinidad and Tobago , flew home well satisfied with their four days ' work .
15 Last year , Sir Richard Body brought in a private member 's bill to introduce within five years a ban on the use of sow stalls and tethers — devices that make it easier and cheaper to manage the animals during their four months of pregnancy .
16 I was still laughing too much from from some comment that the Government did one one of their four promises was to was to put pri public transport before private roads .
17 THE PANTHER Burns came to London with a fearsome reputation — folk lucky enough to witness their two previous London shows still rave about them , and each of their four LPs has achieved the full Sounds five start treatment .
18 THE PANTHER Burns came to London with a fearsome reputation — folk lucky enough to witness their two previous London shows still rave about them , and each of their four LPs has achieved the full Sounds five start treatment .
19 As autumn approaches , those of us with children have to leave the relaxed , informal and often cold and damp atmosphere of the pub garden in search of those few pubs which admit children somewhere within their four walls .
20 They performed far worse in their own target seats ( see table ) and in two of their four gains — Bath and Cheltenham — had a strong following wind that was n't of their making .
21 All teams , though , have much ground to make up on the Samoans , who in the course of their four ties at the weekend , scored 23 tries .
22 Sir John 's daughter married Simon Leake and one of their four daughters married Sir John Markham , Sedgebrook 's famous son .
23 Laura has been living with family friends Foreign Office minister Tristan Garel-Jones and his wife Catalina and their four daughters and one son .
24 Two of their five sons and one of their four daughters died in infancy .
25 The birth of the first of their four children signalled a complete change in her life as , lacking convincing models for the successful media personality and mother , she created her own .
26 Of their four children , a boy and a girl died as infants and two daughters , Sarah and Elizabeth , became the wives of George Stanley and Lord Cadogan respectively , both husbands proving dutiful correspondents with their father-in-law on matters of health and horticulture .
27 She and her husband Louis , a garage owner , had bought the upper floor from a Jewish family and were bringing up their four children there .
28 Molly , Michael , and their four children — Ruby Wedding Day
29 During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller .
30 While their four children were growing up , she put off fulfilling her ambition to run an antique shop of her own .
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