Example sentences of "his [num] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to his eleven children . |
| 2 | Tom , 68 , will share his win with his eight children , 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren . |
| 3 | He 's had to travel across half the world and he had to leave his eight children behind , but I do n't know about his wife . |
| 4 | But dad John Watts makes sure all his 12 children take their turn and controls the chaos . |
| 5 | But dad John Watts makes sure all his 12 children take their turn and controls the chaos . |
| 6 | He fixes us with his glazed brown eyes and tells how five of his 10 children have died . |
| 7 | Third and fourth generations still talk of Adam Watson , who would not allow any of his six children to drive , bus or tram on the sabbath . |
| 8 | His widow , Fatima Oufkir , 56 , his six children ( now aged between 21 and 37 ) and his cousin had been imprisoned in southern Morocco in December 1972 , and were moved to Marrakesh in 1987 . |
| 9 | His three children have all made their own way in the world , preferring not to join the family firm . |
| 10 | His letters to his daughter Amanda , accompanied by her explanatory editorial notes , reveal him to have been something of a tender tyrant in his dealings with his three children , and much happier in the country watching birds than in London coping with editors and producers . |
| 11 | Happily Mr White soon abandons this sort of yuk and reveals much that is interesting in Hawking 's life at Cambridge and later abroad ; his progress from stick to crutches to wheelchair to electric car , from whispered speech to tracheotomy to a computerised voice machine ; the problems of finding suitable accommodation , exacerbated by an unhelpful bursar ; the birth of his three children ; difficulties with his wife Jane , to whom he owed so much , and their eventual separation ; his love of dancing and dinner parties , and always his stubborn courage in refusing to regard himself or allow others to regard him as anything but normal . |
| 12 | In other rooms his three children are also asleep . |
| 13 | But then Arthurs , who had called at his former home to visit his three children , lashed out at Mr Berry with a cricket bat and kicked him in the face , breaking his jaw in several places . |
| 14 | Set in a slum in Islington , North London , it showed the divisions in a working-class family where the boozing bully of a father resents the independence that the Welfare State has given to his three children . |
| 15 | well all his three children got houses at , at eighteen . |
| 16 | His 11 children inherited most of his estate . |
| 17 | Yesterday Leslie showed he was full of life again , sporting a blue baseball cap and obviously looking forward to spending the day with his five children and 61-year-old wife Jean . |
| 18 | I have never forgotten that near the end of his life my Father told me that in his loneliness Basil was the one of his five children who had given him most sympathy and understanding . |
| 19 | In 1892 he formed a limited liability company to take over his business.The memorandum of association of the new company was signed by Salomon , his wife and his five children , each signatory being issued with one share . |
| 20 | In a letter of 1809 he refers to his five children . |
| 21 | The mother of his five children told us , grieving , of the teen-age youngsters disappearing in batches of ten or twelve , without a word to their parents , to join the ‘ freedom fighters ’ . |
| 22 | Roach outlived two wives and two of his five children . |
| 23 | And the movie is the story of their friendship and Donald Woods ' conversion , in a way , to the erm cause that erm called black consciousness which Steve Beeko erm promoted and so on , and it ends up with a sort of James Bond escape from South Africa in a way , in that Donald and his wife and his five children , harassed and threatened by the erm South African Government , finally escape . |
| 24 | There is , however , a video of his performance which he is encouraged to play from time to time by his two children . |
| 25 | Next to us sat a man and his two children . |
| 26 | His two children , aged 18 months and seven months , were sleeping eight feet from the explosion , but were saved from injury by the bomb-proofing and reinforced glass that all VIPs in the province get in their homes . |
| 27 | The pittance that he allowed her to keep herself and his two children could not make much of a dent in Tawell 's more than robust bank account . |
| 28 | The people in the photographs in the brochure — a man , his wife , his two children and his stupid , stupid luggage , his folding chairs , his folding table , his hamper , his sensible suitcase packed for his sensible holiday — were exactly how Henry imagined the advertisers thought of him . |
| 29 | The Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate dismissed summonses brought against a Liverpool Constable for selling tickets in an unauthorised lottery … the Constable had got into financial difficulties owing to a serious illness of his wife and the ill-health of his two children . |
| 30 | When he opened the door and his house filled with strangers , he was told they had the right to take his two children away . |